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re: OTA antenna vs cable picture quality.
Posted on 9/21/20 at 11:16 am to Easye921
Posted on 9/21/20 at 11:16 am to Easye921
all cable companies (Uverse included) compress the signals to a very poor 720p quality.
OTA is going to give you the native picture produced sent from the original broadcast.
If you want quality HD picture you have to go DirecTV, Dish Network or a streaming service.
OTA is going to give you the native picture produced sent from the original broadcast.
If you want quality HD picture you have to go DirecTV, Dish Network or a streaming service.
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Posted on 9/21/20 at 6:13 pm to notsince98
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all cable companies (Uverse included) compress the signals to a very poor 720p quality
No they are 1080p, it's just compressed. They dont downscale to 720p, generally speaking. Some channels are 720p and upscaled, and they look like garbage.
The real answer is OTA channels are not compressed. You lose a lot of quality from compression, but cable companies for the longest didn't have capacity for uncompressed 1080p, it's still expensive to implement enough bandwidth for it, customers are used to it, and they still have to bandwidth consumption on their networks.
This post was edited on 9/21/20 at 6:17 pm
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