Yes, if you compress enough you too can have the most HD channels. DirecTV compresses so much that I wouldn't consider it HD much of the time, it's getting more like highly compressed Internet video.
Compressing 1.5 Gbits to around 19 Mbits doesn't look so bad, but when you get to around 6 Mbits or lower it's no longer HD or even good SD.
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Just about everybody is doing compression now; Food TV used to be a 17 megabit stream on Comcast. Now it looks barely acceptable.
My favorite is when there is so much tiling on the SciFi channel during action, you can't see anything at all. It frustrates me to the point of wanting to chuck a wiimote into my TV. -- "Some people never see the light till it shines thru bullet holes." -Bruce Cockburn
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