Comcast not so comcastic?

Originally Posted by paulg

So, I have had comcast internets for a while. pretty fast and fairly reliable.

they recently jacked up the price and then offered me cable TV service. I live within range of TV towers and get TV off the air. The signal is high def and looks very good.
I took their offer (it brought my bill back down to what it was).

So, anyways, they sent me a set top box, I plugged it in and - low def.

Looked awful. the box they sent was not HD. Went back to comcast and they gave me an HD box for $10 more per month. A bit of a bait and switch...

Plugged the HD box in and - hmmm. Signal looks better but it is not as good as over the air HD.

Seems like Comcast uses a bit too much compression in their cable service. Details in skin are lacking, blockiness in black backgrounds, and overall lack of fine detail.
Looks a bit worse than Netflix.

Is this experience matched by others here?

I am used to a decent image on my 50" TV. If I can't tweak the signal and get an as good image as I got with my over the air antenna I am going to have to drop the service.

I don't really care that much about the bazillion stations I now get, especially of they all look like sh1t.

OTA HD looks way better than cable. We had uverse for a few weeks. Wife loathed it.

The old Springsteen song about 57 channels and nothing on, it's now 1000 channels and nothing on.

What makes no sense is how cable tv charges extra for HD!

Originally Posted by brkf

OTA HD looks way better than cable. We had uverse for a few weeks. Wife loathed it.

The old Springsteen song about 57 channels and nothing on, it's now 1000 channels and nothing on.

What makes no sense is how cable tv charges extra for HD!

hmm.

someone told me Uverse looked better.

Oh well.

Yeah, it's all crap. I thought I'd like the food channel but every time I turn it on it's either a variation of Iron Chef where they are cooking something nasty like sheep brains or that dive diner guy with the dyed hair - for 2 straight hours...

I'm probably going to cancel and just do OTA and internet services for media.

I'm really surprised that they don't get what the consumer wants.