E* Picture Quality - Locals vs ESPN

[Ransack]

<div class="bbWrapper">I must say that the PQ on my Wash DC locals is pathetic. Sometimes you don&#039;t realize it until it smacks you in the face...like today. <br /> <br /> I PVR&#039;d the late CBS NFL Game &amp; they were showing the Rams-Jets game in OT, so i started watching it. A few minutes ago, I am watching NFL primeTime on ESPN and they are showing the highlights of the Rams game. Talk about a night and day difference. ESPN looks like HD compared to my local CBS station. The picture on ESPN is bright and the colors are vibrant (And it&#039;s even less pixelated). <br /> <br /> I&#039;m sure someone will tell me it because of a different satellite or spotbeam or whatever....the point is the PQ sucks...Period.</div>

 

[ww2154]

<div class="bbWrapper"><b>pq</b><br /> <br /> All my locals are terrible to. The cbs local out of Macon, Ga is the worse channel I get. It is not just the locals my espn2 is also terrible.</div>

 

[jlhugh]

<div class="bbWrapper">Locals suck because E* compresses the crap out of them to be able to fit them all on the satellite. Nothing can be done til more bandwidth is avaliable i guess. That&#039;s what they will tell you anyway.</div>

 

[TuxCoder]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="" data-quote="jlhugh" data-source="" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> jlhugh said: </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Locals suck because E* compresses the crap out of them to be able to fit them all on the satellite. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Uh, I beg to differ jlhugh, they compress the <i>good</i> out of those channels so all we&#039;re left with is the <i>crap</i>. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /><br /> <br /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /><br /> <br /> I&#039;m thankful for my digital OTA receiver (and now the 921 which is one too). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Not hardly any compression on OTA HD, and not near as much on the OTA SD simulcast as we get from Dish.<br /> <br /> But, E*, not everyone has or can use a digital OTA receiver, so don&#039;t let that be an excuse to leave the ugly high compression on our locals...</div>