Re: Cablevision, DirectTV, or a hybrid system?

Agreed, with a plasma at 50" you will notice more flaws, but with
miles of cable amplified along the way, signal degradation as a result
of line attenuation as well as amplified artifacts is inevitable. But
a home run from a satellite, on the other hand, should be a noticeable
improvement. Now if we just had fiber direct to the home, no loss and
some major bandwidth?

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:18:41 GMT, Jo <Rosariom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yahoo John wrote:
Here is my predicament. I have had Cable TV and High speed internet
(Optimum Online) for a number of years now and just recently added
Internet phone service. Everything was fine until I went out and
bought a 50" Plasma (HP - PL5000N) HDTV. The HIdef channels 701 - 713
and DVD's look great, but the rest of the channels are somewhat
grainy, wavy, or are just a disappointment. I am very satisfied with
the High speed Internet service and VOIP Phone service, but not with
the TV reception on the 50" plasma. Now I have heard that satellite
TV is much clearer then cable on digital and analog channels. Do I
keep just the Hi speed Internet and phone service on cable and use
satellite for TV broadcasts and drop cable for TV reception?

It doesn't really matter what service you end up using, the analog & SD
pictures will generally look worse then what you would expect. The HDTV
amplifies all the flaws as well as qualities from a SD image, it can
often look dissapointing.

My friend and I were watching a preseason game last week and were
dissapointed on how it looked on the HDTV, we went over to the old
analog tv and the picture looked great by comparison. I'm not sure if
it's true or not but I've heard that CRT HDTV's are more forgiving when
displaying SD images.
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