charper, surley you know better than most this is a forum, and the definition of a forum is a medium for open discussion, I for one have regurgitated nothing, what I state is what I see with my own two eyes, and to accuse it denotes a sign of over-defensivness, which occurs when deception is being attempted, or bad judgment (maybe your brain/optical center doesn't see the problems some of the rest of us obviously do, I mean do you think we are all sitting around figuring out ways to tell people PQ sucks when it doesn't?)
Are our observations automatically ficticious because you cannot see the problem?
It is fine that it(D* PQ) is fine with you, we are not trying to convince you that you should beleive otherwise, but it is NOT fine with some of us(heck it's really not a huge deal with me persae, I mean it's just TV, not the unification theory), and you telling us its black, when it's obviously white won't change that, iow, don't crap on my cupcake and tell me it's chocolate icing.
It's simple, mpeg2 is used to compress, why is compression used? to make room where there would not normally be enough, and to make room for more content, compression must go up, lossyness goes up, PQ goes down, also, mpeg2 is some pretty lossy compression, loss impairs PQ, end of story.
That is what you want to argue against? Are you sure you want to maintain that stance?
I probably would not have replied, but the way you worded your post, you make wide-sweeping accusations about people you don't even know. I mean really, what do you mean by "they", does "they" to you mean those that don't agree with you? And the salesman part of your post was quite evident "makes directv a clear winner"? Almost comical, the thread was never about packaging, or bundles, or cost, it is about PQ, clearly your post is a strawman argument at best, and down right insulting at worst.
You are going to the point of making accusatory, judgmental remarks over something you guys claim is not an issue, that just doesn't float much water, and does nothing for ones reputation.
P.S. As I typed this I am watching Cops on CourtTV, the night sky in their shots are so compressed its not even funny, every solid area(not just black, just black is the first thing the encoding drops as a loss as a function of its algorithym) is full of the grey compression 'blocks', no major PQ/compression issue..yea. right. The difference in our sides of the argument is that we are willing to state that you may not be seeing the same things for whatever reason, your side however just blasts us as "regurgitators".
