I was with Directv for 10yrs, just switched to Dish/hopper.
Sharp Elite pro-70x5fd pro calibrated, set as dot to dot.
Hopper setting are 1080, 16x9, only watch hd.
Couple weeks ago I watched the Superbowl on Fox HD channel 2
The pq looked like it was between sd and hd. Better than sd, but...