Re: First time subscriber... not happy with DirecTV picture quality.

Looks good at the folks house but bad at yours, sounds like the
receiver output or a difference in displays.
DirecTV's picture isn't that great, lots of compression artifacts.
Higher resolution TVs show it more.
My buddy has a mitsubishi tube set and a toshiba tube set, at first
glance it looks like he gets a better picture on DirecTV than I do.
But after a second inspection, the TVs have noise filtering which
blurs the picture slighty and they don't have very good vertical
resolution. On the Mitsu, which is a big tv, 35 inch or something like
that, you can see each scan line from accross the room. Where on my
HiDef set the compression noise very visible.

Want a better picture on DirecTV? get a fuzzy TV.

It could also be that the decoder inside the receiver isn't working
properly. Try your receiver on the folks TV.

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:38:46 GMT, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>   We just had DirecTV installed in our home and one word... terrible. 
>Our picture quality looks like, at best, a poor VCD.  I've tried 
>adjusting the settings our televisions(a 13", 27", and 32") but I just 
>can't get a decent picture even though our signal strength is ~90.
>
>   The reason we went the DirecTV route is that my mother and 
>step-father have had DirecTV for some time and I have always been 
>impressed with their picture(on a 25" screen).
>
>
>   I have written DTV asking for help but I'm not holding my breath.
>
>
>   I did a Google search and found that other have also been surprised 
>by the lack of picture quality.  Has anyone actually gotten out of their 
>contract because of this?  If I don't get a satisfactory response from 
>the DirecTV folks I'm thinking of contesting my initial charge because 
>to me... I've received a defective product.
>
>   Sorry for making my first post a pissy one, but the wife and I are 
>just shocked at how bad the picture quality is(for us at least).