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HD Problem
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantFLighT
Registered: May 26, 2007
United States Posts: 57
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Quoting leo1963:
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The biggest issue here is the provider "Comcast".  A piece of worthless crap. Never trust comcast for they don't know what they are doing and will tell you what you want to hear and will never tell you the truth.  I have caught comcast is many many lies.  Direct TV or AT&T U-verse is the only way to go.


I couldn't agree more, I'm very disappointed with most of their HD broadcasts and On Demand movies, and there are so few hi-def movies to choose from. Standard Def broadcasts stink as well. And on top of it all they over charge for their crappy service and charge me for hundreds of channels that I could care less about.  It is my understanding that Comcast grew by buying up many small local cable companies over the past 20+ years and do not put any money into upgrading their infrastructure so their using old transmission equipment and 20 to 30 year old, or older, transmission cables.

I am hopeful that Verizon will come through in the near future.

By the way, does anyone know if the digital hash I get along the top of my plasma screen with HBO and also ESPN as well as others, (when the picture is in HI-Def but not a widescreen image) is the fault of the Network or Comcast?
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantBattling Butler
Registered: March 13, 2007
Posts: 811
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Quoting Ascended_Saiyan:
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cmaeditor is most likely correct.  They have very limited bandwidth.  I don't believe most cable provide have started to switch over from MPEG-2 to AVC.  The HD bandwidth limit is a little over 19Mbps (that's for video AND audio).  That's what happens when you you don't have enough bandwidth for the content they are providing.  It should be less of a problem when they EVENTUALLY switch over to AVC for encoding the video.

In contrast, Blu-ray has 40Mbps for video alone and a buffer that allows up to 50Mbps bursts.  You won't see pixelated pictures like your On-Demand cable provides you with on Blu-ray.  There is a good amount of bandwidth with Blu-ray.  We can always use more bandwidth, but right now Blu-ray offers the most to consumers.



Blu-ray fanboy has spoken!       
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantCalidain
You're no Daisy at all!
Registered: March 16, 2007
Posts: 405
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Quoting Battling Butler:
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Blu-ray fanboy has spoken!       


He gets paid by the word doesn't he???

My Collection!!!
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