Re: SDTV OR HDTV?

"jack ak" <akjack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Tim wrote:
>> Mac Cool wrote:
>>> Jeff Turner:
>>>
>>>
>>>> My question is, "I wonder if the extra picture quality that I will
>>>> get with the HD worth the $ 200 over the SD?". What do you think?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. I've been watching an HDTV for three years and could never go
back.
>>
>> I only watch the Simpsons in non-HDTV. No other shows will be watched.
>> Actually, it's not HDTV because the cable company compresses the 
>> channels.
>
> All broadcast HD programming is compressed.  You can't fit the HD signal
> in the requisite 6MHz channel without compression.
>
The only way your going to get uncompressed is with a Antenna to pick up 
your HD channels.  Of course even it could be compressed.  But nothing
like 
it is on Cable or Satellite.