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    Dish Quality ?

    In fairness to dish - they had the BEST HD quality of ALL providers, at least when I left them a year or two ago. They beat my cable (Adelphia) and even VOOM (sometimes). However -- you are right. Their SD is absolutely horrible, just horrible. The images were so SOFT and undefined, it was...
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    Does New Channels affect pic Quality?

    I hope they are reading these posts. Some of the SD is quite bad. Was watching Legally Blonde on TBS Saturday evening, and it was horrible. I could flip from analog cable to VOOM for TBS and there were places that small text in the scene was readable on cable and unreadable on VOOM (lack of...
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    New channels look bad!

    They HAVE improved the SD channels, especially in the lower channels (SD movies). The improvement has been in sharpness, and that is VERY important to me. However, I agree there is still a lot of pixelization and blockiness going on during motion (esp. in muted or foggy scenes - read low...
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    Harmonic Encoder Improvements? (Feedback Need it)

    I'm sorry. Gamma may be different, but the softness and pixelization blockiness is still horrible on almost all of the SD channels. The HD varies some but it not as severely bad. Some of the SD is hardly enjoyable or watchable at times. PLEASE don't let this be the new norm!!!! I hope we...
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    Harmonic Encoder Improvements? (Feedback Need it)

    Sean said: "The still picture look ok but these pixelation problems are not only in all the HD channels but it also propagated to the SD channels which used to look acceptable." I don't agree. On SD channels the STILL pictures look soft and smoothed out with less detail. I can even see...
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    Harmonic Encoder Improvements? (Feedback Need it)

    Reviewed all channels again at 2 pm ET Friday - 55" Mits RPTV component HD is pretty good, maybe some extra softness on some channels, but it is hard to be confident with that because how different programs transfer make more difference with HD. But it is the SD that is sufferable. A/B...
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    All of you bashers of VOOM's bitrate - checkout this link

    Well, we don't know what the rate is for VOOM 'cause they won't tell us. However, I used to be fairly frustrated several months back when many of the HD channels looked soft compared to OTA or even Dish (back then!). But, I must say, over the last time period, the HD for most of the channels...
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    Scott's Take on VOOM

    Scott, you may have it assessed about right. However, the other angle is, all they need to do is add those few core SD channels, and go as a full offering service. I know I would sacrifice some "spurious" less-core SD channels if I had 8x more HD channels. Yes, the movies loop, but 10 channels...