Re: SDTV OR HDTV?

On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:52:16 -0700 jack ak <akjack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| 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.

Yes, it is all compressed.  But it's compressed more on cable where they
are
trying to squeeze more signals into the same 6 MHz.  Some TV stations
compress
harder, too (they try to add extra channels).

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