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Originally Posted by MrMaxwell
I don't see it on blu-ray but from a cable or satellite "hd" source no matter where I am, what the tv is, or whatever else, I see the pixelation. It's huge and disgusting and ugly. No one else can see it or will admit to it being there. What the hell is going on with that ?
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It's all in the compression and bandwidth.
BluRay streams to your TV set via HDMI at 40 Megabits per second. It is 1080p lines of crispy, sexy goodness with virtually no "pixelation" or color banding (Color too, needs lots of bandwidth to have all of them displayed).
"HD" content provided by cable and Satelite is compressed like crazy resulting in a shitty image no matter how good your TV is, and broadcast at only about 3.5 Megabits per second. Why so low? Because bandwidth is expensive. On top of that, no channels broadcast 1080p or even 1080i. It is all 720p.