Can big dish offer better option to those out of ota range?

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I don't imagine the size of the dish indicates the quality of the HD. Also,
as I understand it there is more HD available on DBS than there is on 4DTV
big dish. Heck, local NBC in HD would be enough to get me to buy a new HD
set!

--Dan

"GrayhawkJW" <grayhawkjw@aol.com> wrote in message
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>I have not joined the hdtv game yet because there is so little hd available
>in
> my area- two ota (local nbc and pbs) and little on cable (which I despise
> anyway- so much poor quality sd transmissions). I'm wondering id there is
> a
> way to receive hdtv using on of the old big sat dishes? Not sure how they
> work, but I don't want compressed hd over cable or small dish. Anyone
> have any
> info on this? Is it a feasible solution? TIA
> Jim in VA

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Agree, I get both also.

With HDTV, the biggest difference in quality among broadcasts is the quality
of original content. Some HDTV is spectacular, some is poorer than good DVD
quality.
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"Frank Provasek" <frank@frankcoins.com> wrote in message
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>I see no difference in HDTV picture quality as sent by Directv compared
> to over the air reception. (I get both)

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jim wrote:
> You will not find any HD network feeds with big dish

Not true, although to decode the signals, one does need a HD MPEG2-DVB receiver
attached as a slave to the IRD. CBS and PBS HD are possible this way.

The problems are:
1) The analog and VCII signals that BUDs receive are not HD.
2) The DCII signals are for the majority, SD, although there are a handful of
HD signals. (Those are your "4DTV" signals).
3) Most MPEG2-DVB boxes have NTSC outputs ONLY.
4) Some HD signals are in proprietary formats.