Arguably the worst news outfit around, sans the Glenn Beck show on Headline Prime, CNN is basically a left-sided liberal powerhouse which pumps out information that the media elite have wet-dreams over. Not the case this morning, as I read this article about HD signals over the airwaves. What this mentions is something that I already do. I have an LCD Flat-Panel HDTV with an antenna to pick up HD broadcasts, but what I learned from them is that the HD signal being transmitted in the airwaves is actually better than any signal you're going to get from Comcast or DirectTV.
Local TV channels, broadcast in HD over-the-air, offer superior picture quality over the often-compressed signals sent by cable and satellite TV companies.That's pretty significant. You have DirectTV promoting their superior HD quality services, but my stupid antenna is better than mounting a satellite dish to my apartment? Pretty cool stuff. I actually invest in an outdoor HD antenna a couple of months ago, and I'm picking up HD channels from as far away as Cookeville, TN. I couldn't be happier with the results either. One of my brothers stayed at my apartment in Nashville and couldn't believe the quality I was getting from a broadcast signal.When you're using an antenna to get an HD signal you will be able to receive true broadcast-quality HD," said Megan Pollock, spokeswoman for the group [The Consumer Electronics Association]. "Some of the cable and satellite companies may choose to compress the HD signal."
Compression involves removing some data from the digital signal. This is done so that the providers will have enough room to send hundreds of other channels through the same cable line or satellite transmission.
I would still like to get Comcast again just because I am missing out on a lot of great television, but I can't justify paying what it costs, especially since I'm on the road all the time. I just thought that was an interesting tidbit of information. 80-year old technology is better than the most current and up-to-date technology. Wow, our grandparents really did build stuff better!