They have to make room within their limited bandwidth for all of that
"on demand" stuff. Nutty.
Chuck Norcutt
On 5/12/2011 10:19 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> Glad to see that there is someone else that is bothered by that. Most
>> HDTV's come from the factory with the default to stretch a SD picture to
>> fill the screen, as most people don't like the black bars at the sides. I
>> HATE that.
>
>
> That also ranks up there with the hyper-compression that HDTV signals
> over cable-tv or satelite-tv have. Why people think that pea-soup
> instead of grass is a good thing is beyond me. I just don't get it.
> Most HDTV channels I've seen (direct broadcast is an exception because
> of lower compression ratios), give me the impression that I've taken a
> beautiful picture, subjected it to an extremly hyper-active
> noise-reduction algorithm which wiped out all detail and then applied
> JPEG compression at the 10% quality level.
>
> AG
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