I have finally completed the setup of my system, and have been watching FTA for a couple of days now. One thing I noticed is what I think are 'MPEG artifacts', i.e. with rapidly moving images I can see the image being updated in small square blocks of pixels. I didn't notice any of this when I set up my system with a 23" TV (PAL standard) next to the dish, but now that I'm on a 40" HDTV set (Sony 40XBR800, NTSC standard), it seems quite bad at times. Not all channels have it to the same degree, some hardly have any visible artifacts, but some are quite bad.
My question: is this due to the compression of the image information (which would explain why it's different between channels), the quality of the receiver (coship CDVB5300B - using the STi5518 chip like so many other receivers), the quality/length of the RG6 cable, reception quality, PAL vs. NTSC, or something else? As far as reception goes, I am typically between 95 and 98 on quality. My RG6 is quad cable, about 120ft. Or course I understand that watching signals of less then ideal quality on a big screen HDTV set is never good, but for the channel in question that I used to receive via Dish (BVN-TV) but that I now have through IA5, it's definitely worse now than it ever was on Dish.
Thx,
Chris.
My question: is this due to the compression of the image information (which would explain why it's different between channels), the quality of the receiver (coship CDVB5300B - using the STi5518 chip like so many other receivers), the quality/length of the RG6 cable, reception quality, PAL vs. NTSC, or something else? As far as reception goes, I am typically between 95 and 98 on quality. My RG6 is quad cable, about 120ft. Or course I understand that watching signals of less then ideal quality on a big screen HDTV set is never good, but for the channel in question that I used to receive via Dish (BVN-TV) but that I now have through IA5, it's definitely worse now than it ever was on Dish.
Thx,
Chris.
