| I hope... They don't revert to HD-Light as Direct and Dish have done...
Here: »www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/11/th···hd-lite/
Here: »www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t···=hd+lite
As noted by imrf in the BBR thread: »[DIRECTV] Looking to move from Comcast back to DirecTV |
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| Directv with the New Mpeg4 has been compared to OTA and found to be almost identical with very comparable quality in many areas.....while they did DOWNREZ (notice no HD LITE) with Mpeg2, Mpeg4 seems to be full Blow HD. |
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| Regardless of the MPEG compression, do they lower either the bit rate or the resolution below 1920x1080? |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
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Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by Uncle Paul:Regardless of the MPEG compression, do they lower either the bit rate or the resolution below 1920x1080? All satellite does.
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 scoobyPremium
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Schaumburg, IL
kudos:1 | reply to Uncle Paul
I don't know if anyone has found a way to find out the resolution or bitrate being used on the mpeg4 locals. From what I have seen they are close to OTA but not like what Comcast offers. Untouched, uncompressed, no downrez'ing. Passed to the customer as they are received.
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| said by scooby:I don't know if anyone has found a way to find out the resolution or bitrate being used on the mpeg4 locals. From what I have seen they are close to OTA but not like what Comcast offers. Untouched, uncompressed, no downrez'ing. Passed to the customer as they are received. I just switched from Comcast, who only offers plain analog cable in my town, to DirecTV.
DirecTV does downsize their 1080im channels quite a bit, but for the most part the channels look fantastic.
I can tell that they downsize because my TV has a zoom mode that you can choose the native resolution of the channel. When I select this, the channel doesn't fill up the whole screen.
The resolution of my TV is 1320x768, so I could take a photo of the TV with an HD channel on and calculate the size using a paint program. My best guess would be they are resizing them down to something like 1280x640.
yeah, I guess it sucks that they downsize, but I'm only paying 20 more dollars a month than I did for Comcast's crappy analog service and get about 40 more channels - and the HD channels look nice to me.
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