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Re: I hope... 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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