So I just spent the last hour trying to figure this out but I keep getting conflicting information so anybody in the know please help me out here:
Basically, I currently have comcast HD DVR as my TV service. I'm constantly disappointed(and always have been) with the poor ancient mpeg2 picture quality especially when it doesn't even compete with a seemingly over compressed internet HD mpeg4/avc download. I've ALWAYS hoped comcast would upgrade the system to mpeg4 to fix this problem(they get the broadcasts all in mpeg4 for the satelites so it would be fairly easy to pass it on) but they seem years off doing that only now slowly releasing boxes that support mpeg4.
Back to my question, are there any TV services out there that have superior mpeg4 picture quality? I hear DirecTV does and that U-Verse does but I also hear that U-Verse somehow has worse picture quality than comcast so I'm quite confused. Also how about Fios? Is comcast really the best I can get bitrate/codec wise or am I missing out on much better. I used to think I was stuck with comcast because it was the only to offer Comcast Sports Bay area and California but it looks like that's all resolved these days.
Any info would be appreciated. If I can simply switch to u-verse or something to get a big increase in PQ I will certainly do so.
Basically, I currently have comcast HD DVR as my TV service. I'm constantly disappointed(and always have been) with the poor ancient mpeg2 picture quality especially when it doesn't even compete with a seemingly over compressed internet HD mpeg4/avc download. I've ALWAYS hoped comcast would upgrade the system to mpeg4 to fix this problem(they get the broadcasts all in mpeg4 for the satelites so it would be fairly easy to pass it on) but they seem years off doing that only now slowly releasing boxes that support mpeg4.
Back to my question, are there any TV services out there that have superior mpeg4 picture quality? I hear DirecTV does and that U-Verse does but I also hear that U-Verse somehow has worse picture quality than comcast so I'm quite confused. Also how about Fios? Is comcast really the best I can get bitrate/codec wise or am I missing out on much better. I used to think I was stuck with comcast because it was the only to offer Comcast Sports Bay area and California but it looks like that's all resolved these days.
Any info would be appreciated. If I can simply switch to u-verse or something to get a big increase in PQ I will certainly do so.