Let alone pixellations, even without pixellations there may be big difference in picture quality. When you compress a professional dual layer DVD (DVD9) to single layer (DVD5) or even 5-in-1 movie packs (those road-side pirated ones) do not show any pixillations. But still amount of fine details in picture obviously differ a lot, which is more noticeable on large screen
TVs. As you keep on compressing, it becomes more and more like de-focused or hazy image.
I was hoping that big-tv will take us to something like DVD5 quality at least, but actually it has only improved from very apparent pixellations (even on small CRT TVs

) to not-so-noticeable level. Which is good, but nothing great as such!
true in dvd9 the images are shaper,or just compare a movie trailer to a dvd5 still the trailer as lot more detail.
well wonder how many people subscribe for the big tv movie channels,most of the time if i change the channel i find the same movie going on in one of the movie ch like star movies,hbo etc. and big tv uses a bit more bandwith for the pay per view movie ch so i am sure if they utilize the bandwith of those channels for regular channels there will be a huge quality increase,may be even dvd like quality since they have around 30 pay per view movie channels u can image the bandwith those channels take.