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The whole ESPN/ABC network is the worst of any for HD sports picture quality, to the point where it's noticeably bad. You don't even have to do an A/B side-by-side. When you see a little cloud of pixels following fast moving players around, when you see blurry images, you know someone's not...

Huh? What is "USA" and what article are you talking about? You mean USA Today, the McDonald's of newspapers? Never read that.

Let me start by saying I am not a sat sub now (still on Cable waiting to make the jump). Based on what I see happening in the last 12 months with Dish and Direct, I think it's quite clear that Dish is going for the low end market who wants something a few dollars cheaper and doesn't care so...

Bull. Name one movie they've shown in HD. All they are doing is stretching an SD version of the movie. I think you're being fooled because they are doing the thing where they stretch the edges more than the middle, now.

Yes. That is a definition of bitrate. And? Why are we at this starting point? Is there something you wish us to respond to here? I am guessing, because you highlighted the part about higher bitrate = higher picture resolution, that your point is that it somehow supports your original...

I am currently a cable customer looking to switch to Dish or DirecTV or maybe UVerse (but probably not). The Dish HD package looks great -- EXCEPT it's missing some key channels that I watch. If it had these I'd probably jump, because it's cheap enough that I could keep it even if I didn't...

This reminds me of the Wesley Snipes trial that's going on now, specifically the detailed, lengthy rants "proving" that the IRS is illegal, no one really owes any taxes, etc. Well, at least you can't go to jail for doing what hidefjeff is doing.

But you have to be a AAA member? I don't need that.

LOL @ time zone mixup "Since Las Vegas is in Nevada and not Arizona" ... :) :)

So, let me see if I've got this straight: Adding an external USB hard drive to a ViP211 has been announced. (Availability date?) With the drive, a ViP211 has full DVR functionality. The fee is $40 one time charge per household. (So if you have a ViP211 and a ViP622/722, and you want...

Topic 1: Blue = Blu-Ray = Democratic Red = HD-DVD = Republican Topic 2: Purple = Neutral? More like Bi. Swings both ways. Makes my engineering heart groan. There is no technical reason on earth to have two. Calling it Neutral makes is sound "nice and good", like "network...

obviously I'm a complete newcomer here... but why the heck do they call it BD for Blu-Ray Disc? That is completely non-intuitive. I had to look it up. It should be BRD.

Well, that sucks for me. I was actually considering getting D* even though it's more expensive. But... HBO, ESPN, TNT, and HDNet are the HD channels I watch most! agggg... any plans to convert these to MPEG4?

Maybe someone wanted to take Tuesday off?

Wow. This made me laugh out loud, I'll give you that. Some posters will stretch a LOOOONG way to make something a D* vs. E* debate.

Does this mean they are out for all carriers, or just Dish?

I pretty much can't stand any of them. TV news is in a really sad state. Radio is worse. Newspapers are probably better than TV news, but that's not saying much. The best place to get news, by far, is the Internet. It's really not even close in competition. IMO the only reason TV...

I think this one is a lot firmer than the previous dates, since they are now auctioning off the to-be-freed-up bandwidth. I think this will be a difficult, expensive, and contentious process for them. There's the "grandma factor" to consider. By that I mean people who just can't deal with...

What I'd suggest is go to Wal-Mart (or whatever your favorite big box store with a TV department is) and pick up a cheap $10-$20 indoor UHF antenna. Beware that you do NOT have to buy an antenna called an "HDTV antenna". These are not different from a UHF antenna. Same signals and...

Yes, it's possible to use a single RG6 cable for both satellite input to the receiver and TV2 output. You do this using a "diplexer". The diplexer will split (or combine, depending on your point of view), a TV-band signal and a satellite-band signal. Here's a link to a picture of how to...

The best thing to have done would have been to have pulled a conduit so that it would be easy to add wires later. I would have also pulled a couple of CAT5e or CAT6 cables so that you can hook up a phone line and an Ethernet connection. As to RG6, a single cable can be used for two tuners by...

I have never been a sat customer and the thing that turns me off to DirecTV is the up-front costs. They seem to want like 5-600 bucks just to set up a simple two-HDTV DVR install. Why is that and is there any way around it?

I think this whole discussion of "nyah nyah you're going to raise your prices we told you so" is kind of silly. Each company will make pricing decisions as they see fit to run their business, and what they said in some press release or PR comment won't really matter. Currently E* seems to...

Well so is Dish Network, of course. it's the way it's done. Cable has to maintain analog channels because they support users with no STB and only NTSC tuners to decode the signal. Right now, "digital cable" is a mix of digital and analog channels. Cable systems are moving towards an...

Actually, Uverse ("AT&T's IPTV product") is only deploying in areas where they are NOT under the cable franchise regulations. And if some local authority tries to put them under cable franchise regulations, they go to the courts, and pull out as a last resort. Their business model appears to...