In my area at least, I hook my HDTVs (and my HTPC with its 4 HD tuners) directly up to the cable (no boxes) and use the QAM signal to watch/record. I get 720p/1080i in the original OTA bit rate.
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Originally Posted by Paul335i
The HD signal via cable is compressed. OTA HD signals aren't compressed and thus provide a superior picture.
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Actually, that's not quite accurate. All digital video transmission has some level of compression when the video is encoded. The question is whether the cable or satellite signal has been re-encoded (compressed even more) than the original - and that varies by provider.
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Last edited by cwsqbm; 01-16-2013 at 11:27 AM.
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