Thread: Question for Satellite Users

I'm currently involved in a thread in the Cox forum about poor HD picture quality delivered by Cox. My two biggest issues are macroblocking during motion scenes, and a general lack of definition in the picture, sort of like what you get when you overcompress a JPEG image. Since this phenomena has been reported by both me and another fellow in another city (but in the same market), and I have also seen it at my parents house, and we're using three different types of HDTV's (me with CRT, the other two Plasma and LCD), and given the RF according to the boxes are well within spec, I believe it is due to overcompression by Cox.

Now the question: several users insist that its not the fault of Cox, but its the broadcasters fault. They claim that if Cox is delivering a channel that is experiencing macroblocking and poor definition, its simply because they got it that way and they are just passing it along, untouched. I don't believe that at all, so my question to you good folks who use DirecTV or DISH is, do your HD channels, especially History, SciFi, ESPN/ESPN2, ABC, CBS, NBC, USA experience these same symptoms? If your channels do not exhibit these same problems, then clearly the broadcasters are not at fault. Thanks in advance for reading and posting.

the cable company's, Satellite company's All rebroadcast programing. How they rebroadcast it is based on there equipment that is in place in any part of the usa. They will reassemble the content as needed to get it down there pipe to customers.

If over-compression exists, it may be because of lack of bandwidth in your local area. They may have more bandwidth in another part of the town and the picture will not require over-compression.

SO yes it depends on lots of factors.