Picture quality not as good as DVD quality

[samdesilva]

Hi all,Needed your help on this one. I had Tata Sky installed 2 days ago. I am getting signal strength around 60 and signal quality around 80, but the picture quality I get is not very good. Better than what I get from my cableguy, but not as good as the DVD quality they advertise about. I stay in a 8-floor building. My flat is on the 1st floor and the dish has been installed on the terrace. What I wanted to know was, is it because of the distance between the dish and the digicomp that the signal quality is not 100? (I have read most people getting signal quality as 100 in posts here) or do you think I should call their technician again to have a look at the issue. Please reply.

 

[Sushubh]

i think if you are getting better quality compared to your cable guy... its pretty good...my experience with dth is that the quality generally sucks compared to the cable guy. esp with dish tv.

 

[max]

They "advertise" it as DVD quality where infact the cables that carry their signal ( from the antenna to your TV ) is incapable of actually delivering DVD quality.

 

[Sushubh]

umm. ur forgetting that the compression does not leave the quality anywhere near DVD standards. i saw jurrasic park 3 on dish tv and the entire movie was smuggy with VCD like poor graphics.

 

[vebk]

"DVD quality" is a stupid term because it means nothing. For instance, the video quality of hollywood movies on DVD is way superior to that of bollywood movies on DVD.As Sushubh said, be happy that you are getting better quality than regular cable.

 

[Karan]

They "advertise" it as DVD quality where infact the cables that carry their signal ( from the antenna to your TV ) is incapable of actually delivering DVD quality.

Not quite true, the cable i.e a coaxial is more than capable of delivering far greater than "DVD Quality" you just need the right sort of equipment. Cable Internet modems are capable of delivering over 40Mb/s of bandwidth over the same cable, a DVD needs 4Mb/s of bandwidth for the video to be streamed. It is actually the STB in this case that is incapable of delivering "DVD Quality" because the cable TV standard in India is Analog.

 

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[viralbug]

^yup true, those cables can provide much better quality than dvd.just need them to provide the quality.

 

[wR2g4vdTjL5d]

DVD quality picture ! Unlimited Broadband ! hum sab gadhe hain !

 

[teamare2006]

i dont know about you all but i am getting very good quality as compare to cabeline there is a quality difference between some of channels like zee quality are not so good as star i am very satisfy with the quality

 

[abhijeetv]

You said it !But seriously aren't there any tech standards defined anywhere, which can be used for comparison ?I have cable with STB at home from Hathway. Though the quality is better than cable, the picture still leaves a lot to be desired. Where can I find out what SHOULD be the output ?cheers.