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re: OTA antenna vs cable picture quality.
Posted on 9/21/20 at 6:13 pm to notsince98
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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Posted on 9/21/20 at 8:07 pm to Hulkklogan
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No they are 1080p, it's just compressed.
Pretty sure it’s not 1080p. They broadcast in either 1080i or 720p
ABC and Fox is 720p
NBC and CBS, along with most others, do 1080i
This post was edited on 9/21/20 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 9/22/20 at 10:50 am to Hulkklogan
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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.
Can you find one cable company that sends 1080p signals for their regular channels? Cox, Comcast, Suddenlink, Uverse, etc. all downscale everything to 720p and compress it a lot.
Nobody does 1080p outside of possibly streaming but even then CBS and NBC send the signal out in 1080i and ABC and Fox send the signal out in 720p. So it makes no sense for anyone to upscale that to 1080p and try to send it out.
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:13 pm to Hulkklogan
Cable companies consider HD to be 720p. They don’t have the bandwidth for anything higher. Some cable companies are going the IP route for 4K content.
Dish uses 1440x1080 and upscales it to 1080 at the receiver. DirecTV sends it out in 1920x1080, but it’s still interlaced (1080i).
Dish uses 1440x1080 and upscales it to 1080 at the receiver. DirecTV sends it out in 1920x1080, but it’s still interlaced (1080i).
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