No, you and I don't have any choice, but just to let you know, Foxtel compress your digital signal to about 300 lines.
So what? Well, I have a 1080P as of today, and notice the picture is fucking atrocious, and is likely to be for many year's yet. DVD is a little better, but not without upconverting - this seriously smacks of suckass:
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As for high definition on Foxtel ? YEAH RIGHT !! That will NOT happen for ages - I mean YEARS !!
The reason is this: If they don't have the equipment to broadcast their current broadcasting without compressing so it fits....then they are nowhere near broadcasting high definition programs. I'll try and explain how far away they are .... what we are watching right now is 576 lines of resolution and that is being compressed to around 300 lines so that it all fits. High definition has 2 main formats, but they mostly refer to the 1080 line version. ! 1080 LINES !!! that's like 3 times more information they need to send than what they are barely capeable of sending now .... we are YEARS away. with the current bandwith (speed) they use to send us stuff....it would be worse than downloading a full movie on a dial-up internet connection. Instead of the 7 second delay in digital broadcasting(the processing time for the box to download your show and play it) , it would be more like waiting 5 hours to watch what's on right now.
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