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Yup, keep the ears, replace the TV and get nice clean uncompressed HD
Err, no. OTA HD is still compressed into a 19.2mbps stream (or even less per channel, if multicasting is used).
Don't confuse
uncompressed to mean the same thing as
not recompressed or transcoded. Many cable companies simply deliver a remuxed version of the same 19.2mbps stream (two channels neatly fit into a QAM256 stream), which yields the exact same quality. Providers who are in more of a crunch are either recompressing (DirecTV's infamous HD-Lite, some cable) or transcoding (More recent DirecTV's MPEG-4 or AT&T U-Verse). These sorts of recompressed streams will always be inferior to the 19.2mbps "source".
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