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Originally Posted by Draug
Pretty much... My brother has Shaw and I have Bell. Better service vs. Better Programming.
What really bothers me now is the amount of compression. It seems about the same on both carriers, maybe a little worse on Shaw.
I thought Bell would get better by moving to 8PSK (which I thought was happening this summer). But, it seems the compression is even worse now than it was in the spring.
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Bell actually did switch to 8PSK a few months back, but I think they used the extra capacity to offer more channels rather than increase the bitrate on their streams. I suspect that they're waiting on an MPEG-4 transition before things really improve.
I've never been that enamored with the HD quality from Shaw or Bell, but Shaw's "Digital TV" was by far the worst I've ever seen. Analog TV actually looks better than that crap. What I wouldn't give for a decent IPTV setup where each stream was 18-25 Mb/s @ 1080p.
Hopefully we get more OTA HDTV around here. I here the quality is second to none right now.