On Feb 27, 12:55*pm, (GregS) wrote:
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Its a fact both my cable boxes, are both digital, but only one is HDTV

I am guessing my other old Comcast box does not have digital out. Its a digital
Comcast cable box. It picks up SD digital channels and outputs them
to NTSC video out.

SD is really not standard definition, only according to the # of lines
displayed on the Tv and bandwidth. The truth of the matter, compressed
digital looks a lot worse than old analog. Its crap.
It does look better on the cable than what I have seen on Direct TV.
Compression is up.

greg

You cannot see much of any good analog broadcasting these days
cause most of the analog signals are digitally processed *into an artifacted
mess.

greg

You haven't seen analog broadcasts in over 20 years - since the last
old quad machines were retired. Every broadcast tape machine built
since 1976 uses digital time base correctors. I've worked in broadcast
since '76 and while analog can be outstanding when used by qualified
skilled operators, digital is much more tolerant of idiot operators -
though they can still mess it up but it's harder.

G²