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Dish Network 1080p Compared to Blu-ray 1080p (Verdict: Not Bad)

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At face value, "1080p high definition" means 1920×1080 pixels presented progressive scan (all at once). But if a clip is 1080p that alone doesn't necessitate that it will look good. Just as you can stretch a thumbnail in Photoshop to any gargantuan size you like, so too can content providers give you ugly 1080p.
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unitalfredo - 439 days 14 hours ago
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i have dish network
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Amnesiac - 439 days 14 hours ago
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the4time2doctor0 - 439 days 14 hours ago
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i don't, but comcast sucks. Stop ripping me off comcast!
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Johnny Rotten - 439 days 14 hours ago
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I have Dish-Net it's pretty cool.

it's just one of the perks for living in Canada. FTA rules!
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IzKyD1331 - 439 days 13 hours ago
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I had dish network but it was plagued with connection problems (for me anyway)
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Real Gambler - 439 days 11 hours ago
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1.5 - Rent or buy a bluray movie....
Or have someone slap it in a remote location, beam it up to a satellite if weather is decent, then beaming it down into your house, still hoping the weather is decent enough. Now, if you leave in the north, make sure your dish is not full of snow.

First channel: Full bandwith. Then as they add more and more channel, they have to split the bandwith more and more between channel.

So at best, with ideal conditions, you get bluray quality. But so many things can go wrong, I'll still rent or buy my Blurays, thank you.
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Ju - 439 days 13 hours ago
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Hey, look, NTSC compared to DVD...huh ?
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joevfx - 439 days 13 hours ago
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it may have the same resolution, but it will never get the same kick ass audio blu ray has.
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Imallvol7 - 439 days 13 hours ago
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i got dishnetwork. very happy. NOT SAME AS BLU RAY though.
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thereapersson - 439 days 12 hours ago
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5 - I love when these content providers try to compare their services to actual HD disc-based content
At least with an HD-based disc, you don't get the macro blocking and compression artifacts that you get with cable, satellite and HD streaming services.

Blu Ray is like a diamond, whereas streaming HD video over cable and satellite networks is comparable to a cubic zirconia. You can see the quality wants to be there, but it just doesn't quite match up to the real thing when put under closer examination.

That said, it's good that Dish Network is offering such a robust HD service. I'm starting to get sick of Comcast's business practices, and have recently been thinking of switching to satellite. I can't figure out who is better though; Dish Network, or DirecTV?
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dem0n - 439 days 9 hours ago
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DirecTV hands down. I've tried both, DirecTV has more channels and DISH tends to lose signal more than DirecTV.

It's up to you in the end, but I think DTV offers more for the money.
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morganfell - 439 days 9 hours ago
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Look at Time Warner Cable. They have HD...NOT! They provide 480p and say they have HD. When the installer came he tried to pass that crap off. I said, "Look at that TV!" (52 in XBR) Then I pulled back the cover on my PS3. I asked, "Who do you think you are BSing?"
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hfaze - 438 days 9 hours ago
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5.3 - Exactly...
I had Comcast's HD service up in Philly, and it was a mixed bag...

Sports in HD looked phenominal. Even though it was 1080i, it looked great.

Now their other "HD" channels... Meh... Plagued with compression artifacts, and often only looking like upscaled versions of the SD channels. Even HBO-HD was only so-so...

The truly funny part is that using a digital tuner, and receiving HD broadcasts from Philly stations gave a better picture quality than Comcast was offering. Some of the NJ digital stations would come in like Comcast's HD did.. ;-)

Honestly if you live near a major city, you don't really need cable or satellite for HD. The Philadelphia area had 14 digital broadcast channels to choose from. Not all of them were in HD, but the ones that were looked great. Then just use NetFlix or Blockbuster Online for HD movies, and you're good to go for less than your average cable or satellite bill.

Unfortunately this is not true everywhere. The Charlotte, NC area... Bleh... Four digital stations, only two are in HD. I guess cable and satellite have some hope... ;-)
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Ju - 439 days 9 hours ago
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These articles are so ridiculous. I didn't notice, DVD died because we had TV. Oh, it didn't.
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Lumbo - 439 days 7 hours ago
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next week:

Youtube in Bluray Quality thx to SuperHD:

http://mrdoob.com/lab/youtu...
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Sheddi - 439 days 5 hours ago
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HAHAHAH now thats HD!
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tk - 439 days 6 hours ago
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8 - This is a rubbish article...
The stuff people will belief...
I tested DVR's a number of times (not the home DVR's) the real stuff. I created my own test patterns to check the video quality - for example - take a color map - with a very slow progression from light blue to slightly darker blue.

Take text in different sizes, diagonal, horizontal, 30 degrees etc. Now suddenly - you see artifacts surrounding your text on the pretender equipment. You see the sudden "stepping" of the color - because on of the first things the compression does is to cut down on the colors. Hey - who needs 100 million colors if you can show them 65,000. With cartoon demo the won't know the difference - until you show a Planet Earth type movie - and then all the dung hits the fan.

One guy - watching a movie - don't tell us what scene in the movie, what the playback device specs was, what TV he was using - and saying that only after a while he:

"started to notice a subtle graininess in the DISH 1080p picture, especially in scenes of slow, steady motion...but the fact that there wasn't a substantial difference in picture quality between the satellite and the disc bodes well for DISH's new service."

Listen bud - how much did they pay you for this ad? I am putting cabling in the office to hardwire HDMI cable 40 meters from the playback device - and the danger of signal loss on the wire exist. Wireless equipment was a joke for this type of application. Commercial TV - signal challenging the quality of 1080p BR disk? Next they will be telling us that they can supply memory storage for the XB360 via sattelite with higher bandwidth that local XDR memory.

If you want the quality - you need local storage. Hard disk or whatever medium that supply 25GB (HD-DVD, BR, HD, whatever medium - as long as the transfer speed is high enough) connected directly to your HDTV.
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