HDTV With Digital Cable quality

[jfall]

Hey, a friend of mine bought a Panasonic PT-47WX42 47" Widescreen HTDV the other day. He said that the guy at the store he bought it from said that when you hook up a HDTV to digital cable (which he has) its not very recommendable as there is noise in the picture. I am just wondering if anyone knows anything about this? is there actually a noticeable quality loss?

 

[tgillitzr]

I just got a HDTV cable box for my TV ( a 46" Mitsubishi Widescreen) and the 5 HDTV channels I do get are good, provided the stream is actual HDTV. A lot of the time it isn't.

I watched Gladiator the other night and it was sweet to say the least.

 

[aphex]

We use our HDTV with DirecTV and it looks fantastic... Cant wait to see the full 1080 when they get a HDTV Reciever in a year or so...

 

[tgillitzr]

Originally posted by: aphexII
We use our HDTV with DirecTV and it looks fantastic... Cant wait to see the full 1080 when they get a HDTV Reciever in a year or so...

It looks sweet... trust me.

I wish I could pause it so I could compare it to a DVD

 

[AaronP]

there's a lot of compression artifacts with poor digital cable channels. This of it like a picture file, a strong analog signal is like a BMP, and a digital cable channel would be like a JPEG.