Misled here. The point I
Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 8:58pm.

Misled here. The point I was making, although maybe poorly, is that FiOS couldn't be any better than the signal provided to them from the locals. And what the locals provide is what they are provided from network feeds and etc. which is already heavily compressed. FiOS may not recompress signals like satellite, but at least in theory a FiOs provided HD channel couldn't be any better than a full bandwidth over-the-air rabbit ears HD channel. The perception that fiberoptic is a better technology (which I won't argue) might lead some to think the picture looks better by default. It would be an interesting test to put a FiOS picture side-by-side to a full bandwidth OTA rabbit ears picture and see what there is to see in difference...I would bet none.

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