I recently moved from Orlando to Miami. In Orlando I had brighthouse digital cable and was really happy with it other than the HD lineup. It was slowly catching up to satelite's HD lineup but it was still pretty far. The quality on the other hand was (I know now) really good. There was a little bit of loss in quality during fast movements, but all in all it was close to OTA quality and I was always wowed by HD programs.
Fast forward to now, in Miami, in a high rise condo downtown, and the only service available in the building is called primecast and in my area they use Dish network. Finally got it installed last week and I'm not too happy. At first I was loving it, only because I had gone 4 months without HD, but I started to notice how bad the quality gets when there's even the slightest movement. When the image is still and close up the detail is amazing, everything you'd expect from HD. But when there's fast movement, flashing lights, lots of stuff going on, the quality goes to crap. Pixelation, blocks whatever you want to call it, completely ruin the picture.
I remember watching HD concerts on brighthouse and being blown away by the picture, then watching them on dish now and seeing a blocky pixelated mess. So after searching on the Internet I learned how Dish and DirecTV have compressed HD in order to get more channels, and HD lite.
The thing is, a lot of these articles and forum posts I found are pretty dated so I wanted to get the scoop on how things are now. I know fios has the best HD PQ for sure, but in South Florida there's no chance in hell of getting fios. So other than that, which HD programming service has the best PQ? What bitrates are the major cable/sat companies broadcasting their HD channels in today? Have any of them improved at all? Are there any signs of future improvements in HD quality? And finally, would it be possible to get, for example, comcast to serve my building, how would I go about trying to do that?
Thanks!
Fast forward to now, in Miami, in a high rise condo downtown, and the only service available in the building is called primecast and in my area they use Dish network. Finally got it installed last week and I'm not too happy. At first I was loving it, only because I had gone 4 months without HD, but I started to notice how bad the quality gets when there's even the slightest movement. When the image is still and close up the detail is amazing, everything you'd expect from HD. But when there's fast movement, flashing lights, lots of stuff going on, the quality goes to crap. Pixelation, blocks whatever you want to call it, completely ruin the picture.
I remember watching HD concerts on brighthouse and being blown away by the picture, then watching them on dish now and seeing a blocky pixelated mess. So after searching on the Internet I learned how Dish and DirecTV have compressed HD in order to get more channels, and HD lite.
The thing is, a lot of these articles and forum posts I found are pretty dated so I wanted to get the scoop on how things are now. I know fios has the best HD PQ for sure, but in South Florida there's no chance in hell of getting fios. So other than that, which HD programming service has the best PQ? What bitrates are the major cable/sat companies broadcasting their HD channels in today? Have any of them improved at all? Are there any signs of future improvements in HD quality? And finally, would it be possible to get, for example, comcast to serve my building, how would I go about trying to do that?
Thanks!
