[BC] Satellite Sound

[Bernie Courtney]

Ya DirecTV sounds like they are probably taking the streams right off the
bird and re compressing them, possible even at a real low bit rate, because
the XM channels I hear on DTV sound 100x worse then what i hear on the XM
tuner in my car.

On 1/21/06, Robert Orban <rorban at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> I have DirecTV, which just lit up about 70 of the XM channels, replacing
> DirecTV's earlier jukebox music service. I don't know what path they are
> using to get them from XM's studios and how much they are recompressing
> them (probably with MP2, because I believe that is the only audio codec
> available in the current DirecTV boxes), but they sound like the wrath of
> s**t on my high resolution living room system (Levinson amps and Duntech
> Sovereign speakers).
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> Maybe I should take another look at DISH. However, the problem with both
> satellite services is that they are compromising the resolution of their
> HD
> channels by losing about 1/3 of the horizontal detail. I am seriously
> thinking about returning to Comcast later this year when they finally have
> an HD TiVo available. So far, what I am hearing is that the cable
> companies
> are not compromising the bandwidth of their HD services. Of course,this
> could change for the worse at any time.
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> Bob Orban
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