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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
To my knowledge there are no HD receivers out there yet. There was one but it has since ceased production. |
If you go over to the satforums forum, they've been discussing 3 or 4 different receivers, which all seem to work OK on regular HD. Some of these receivers seem to be a bit buggy. I'm kind of waiting to see which one is best before investing in one myself.
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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
As to use with the current dish. There is no problem with slaving a DVB receiver to the 922 but until you upgrade the feedhorn and add Ku you will be missing out on quite a bit of the DVB programming out there. Kinda depends on what you are interested in.
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I agree, relative to standard def stuff, but most of the HD (except for
PBS), is on
C-band.
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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
HD is very limited on offerings at this point. No real need to buy into the hype of DN or DTV for HD. ....
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There is a good deal of DVB HD on C-band, at least now anyway. The quality depends on how much they compress it, which is why as you say, the DN/DTV stuff isn't that impressive. But most of the stuff I've seen is excellent quality. It's better than what I receive OTA ATSC, which in turn is better than the DN/DTV stuff. I don't have DCII HD capability, so I can't compare it to that, but in theory it should again depend upon how much they try to squeeze channels into a limited bandwidth, so the DCII stuff should be similar in quality to the DVB stuff. However the difference is in the type of channels. The HD stuff on DCII is mostly cable type channels, while the DVB HD stuff is some network stuff, PBS, NASA, and occasional video type things {which is often the qood stuff}. So yes, it's limited, but like you said, it depends on what you like to watch.