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Originally Posted by compucat
HDTV is great but standard definition digital is not so great. In fact it's worse than analog. The resolution is actually lower and there are many artifacts in the picture. Maybe one day everything will be in HDTV.
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I disagree I F they are broadcasting it at the full bandwidth needed. When you see one getting all the juice on a hdtv set that line doubles and all the rest of it, it can look stunning. CBS affiliate out here is perfecto.
Problem is the stations are always fixed at 1080i or 720p even though they might be only showing SD material so you can end up with the exact same motion artifacts as if it was HD material. If they just switched to fully loaded SD format instead of a skimped HD format when they do SD it would always be perfect. They are using a bigger pipe than needed for SD and not putting enough bits thru it, rather than using a smaller pipe for perfect SD and giving it 100%. I would think that 480p would be what is needed for perfect SD but I've never seen it broadcast.