via youtube.com I posted this a couple year’s ago, but here it is again… The DIY HDTV antenna that pulls in the cleanest HD signal you can get… over the air! Cable companies squash down the HD signal to cram as many “HD” channels as they can into your wire. Over-the-air is the least compressed [...]
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Throughout the ongoing transition from analog to digital broadcasting, we’ve struggled with the multiple formats that our servers, sat receivers and master control equipment have to contend with. One of the worst developments is to find 4:3 (original TV ratio) programs showing up “postage stamped” with black bars at the sides AND the top and [...]
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The nicest thing about receiving HD over-the-air is that is comes through with the least amount of video compression. Cable and satellite providers necessarily compress HD in order to fit all those HD channels in a pretty skinny pipe. Over-the-air is the cleanest HD image you’ll find.
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