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Re: Appalling Picture Quality said by buckingham:said by nlk10010:... my Dish signal looks fine... By any chance, you are not running your Dish signal through the same coax that is supporting the FiOS STB are you? No, no, no. I've got two coax runs from the home run in the garage to my TV, one for the Dish box, one for the FIOS STB.
In general, when I first got FIOS I didn't see a heck of a lot of difference in the two pictures (i.e. Dish vs. FIOS); however, looking more closely, I perceive the Dish picture as a bit "softer", FIOS as sharper with a harder edge. That would lead me to believe that a more careful adjustment of my LG would really show the FIOS picture to its best advantage. Of course this is all assuming that the horrid conditions that prompted me to start this thread aren't present. And I'm leaving SD out of the equation entirely.
Dish isn't bad, mind you, and I'm keeping it as long as FIOS lags on adding national HD. |
hubrisnxs
join:2009-12-30
Fountain Valley, CA
kudos:1 | the softness might be from the HD compression that dish uses. I know we've talked that issue to death. the uncompressed image from fios is often sharper and more detailed and can be confused as a worse signal, even though you are getting more picture.
cnet has some interesting tips on pic quality stuff. of course you can just play with the tv until your eye "likes what you see" but it might be semi helpful...
»www.cnet.com/1990-7874_1-5119938-1.html (broadcast resolutions, in case you wondered what channels broadcast in 720 vs 1080i.)
and »reviews.cnet.com/basic-hdtv-tips···%3bmenu3
(hdtv tune ups)
a lot of basic stuff, but sometimes it's easy to overlook the basic stuff. |
