Originally posted by: royaldank
Your cable company may offer more HD than DirecTV. Not sure what Dish offers right now. However, I think DTV only has 4 or 5 HD channels right now.
Originally posted by: Amused
SD picture will be best most often with Sat. But it still looks bad. You either get fuzzy pictures with anolog cable, or enlarged mpeg compression artifacts with Sat and digital cable. The best SD will be over the air digital channels.
If your local cable offers HD (many do now), you wont need to buy a tuner. They provide one for a minimum monthly charge.
Who is your local cable co.?
Originally posted by: rayray2
Originally posted by: Amused
SD picture will be best most often with Sat. But it still looks bad. You either get fuzzy pictures with anolog cable, or enlarged mpeg compression artifacts with Sat and digital cable. The best SD will be over the air digital channels.
If your local cable offers HD (many do now), you wont need to buy a tuner. They provide one for a minimum monthly charge.
Who is your local cable co.?
Charter. I called them up and they said I would need to purchase an HD tuner on my own for 500-600 dollars if I wanted to get the HD broadcasts. They don't offer a rental.
Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Time Warner here in NJ offers HDTV cable boxes at the same rate as regular cable.
My SD picture is pretty good. HDTV looks good depending on the station. PBS HDTV looks the best.
Originally posted by: rayray2
I just bought a new big screen HDTV. I won't be getting an HDTV tuner for a while, so I'm wondering if there a general consensus on which one (cable or dish) produces the best standard-definition picture quality on HDTV's?
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: royaldank
Your cable company may offer more HD than DirecTV. Not sure what Dish offers right now. However, I think DTV only has 4 or 5 HD channels right now.
DISH has it all now!![]()
Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: royaldank
Your cable company may offer more HD than DirecTV. Not sure what Dish offers right now. However, I think DTV only has 4 or 5 HD channels right now.
DISH has it all now!![]()
It doesnt have the locals in HDTV yet. I would look at your local provider but my gut feeling is that cable will get the locals in HDTV long before dish will.
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: royaldank
Your cable company may offer more HD than DirecTV. Not sure what Dish offers right now. However, I think DTV only has 4 or 5 HD channels right now.
DISH has it all now!![]()
It doesnt have the locals in HDTV yet. I would look at your local provider but my gut feeling is that cable will get the locals in HDTV long before dish will.
But the 8VSB module allows one to get the locals with an antenna. And that comes as part of the deal that ends 10/31.
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Time Warner here in NJ offers HDTV cable boxes at the same rate as regular cable.
My SD picture is pretty good. HDTV looks good depending on the station. PBS HDTV looks the best.
PBS doesn't have much in the way of HD, though. :frown:
InHD, Discovery HD and HDNet (and Bravo HD if you're an opera fan) are the best in PQ, imo.
Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: royaldank
Your cable company may offer more HD than DirecTV. Not sure what Dish offers right now. However, I think DTV only has 4 or 5 HD channels right now.
DISH has it all now!![]()
It doesnt have the locals in HDTV yet. I would look at your local provider but my gut feeling is that cable will get the locals in HDTV long before dish will.
But the 8VSB module allows one to get the locals with an antenna. And that comes as part of the deal that ends 10/31.
true enough but if you dont have a good line of site to the anteannas you are fubar
Originally posted by: vi_edit
I've heard some rumors that Dish Network is going to be introducing close to 20 more HD channels in January? Can anyone confirm this, and if so, any ideas what the extra channels are?