Re: I'll be damned
"meagain" <thatme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have TW Cable in southeast Wisconsin and the Pioneer HD box they supply.
>Fine and nice.
> Just for the heck of it, I hooked up my $15 Radio Shack rabbit ear antenna
> to my 42HP95 Toshiba TV.
> Holy Crap!
> I actually get a better picture from OTA than from the box (local
> stations, of course).
> SNL looks great right now.
>
> Is this typical?
Yes
The cable guys have a reputation for overcompressing HD channels to save
bandwidth.
After all, they have to have room for the ever popular "Golf Channel" "G4"
and other fine cable owned networks in the uncompressed analog taking up
even more space than an HD channels.
.
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