HD Cable Customers Unhappy About Poor Picture Quality

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

Anyone see this AP article? Kinda disheartening...

Regards,
Wayne

[nova]

Had not seen that article, does not surprise me... I have been complaining about Comcast PQ for a long time. Most everyone else says they have better PQ with cable than satellite. Not me, around here Dish Network has a better picture than Comcast. My Comcast HD, in general, looks only slightly better than Dish Network SD, and then I think the only reason is I had the picture stretched to fill the screen with Dish Network.

[fibreKid]

PQ quality really does differ region to region and area to area. I was at a social function where a person had HD cable from Comcast and the pq is terrible. Worse than a stdfef DVD by a long shot. I also have HD cable from Comcast and I can't complain too much. The PQ knocks the socks off std def cable and scaled std DVD playback. I'm using a Denon 5900 for the DVD player but I have only a 46" DLP TV so some of the stuff that might be viewable on a larger screen just don't show up on a 46" display.
We probably live less than 20 miles apart.

[lcaillo]

I think that the thread should be renamed to change HD Cable to Comcast. The implication is that all cable has the same issues. In fact, many are notably better than competing satellite signals. It is easily the case here that Cox is better than either DirecTV or Dish Network. There is as much difference in cable operators as in any other product, and lumping them all together is misleading.

[tonyvdb]

Very true, My HD Cable with Shaw is far better than sat. by a long shot and cable is not affected nearly as much by weather conditions or other interference.

[MatrixDweller]

I found that some channels on Bell ExpressVu satellite were better than the same on Rogers cable and vise versa.

I liked this

For example, Discovery’s bit rate was 14.16 megabits per second on Verizon’s FiOS system but only 10.43 Mbps on Comcast; A&E HD was 18.66 Mbps on FiOS compared to 14.48 Mbps on Comcast. The FiOS system didn’t offer Sci Fi HD, which Fowler’s testing showed at 12.59 Mbps on Comcast.

I think they need to cut some of the channels that don't get watched and improve their overall system.

What I find bad is that TMN (The Movie Network) in HD on Rogers only broadcasts in DD 5.1 a fraction of the time. I dropped TMN this month because it just wasn't worth it. I typically rent the movies on Bluray or DVD 6 months before they air on TMN anyway.