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Originally Posted by v1001
Some Satellite shows are better than some HD disc movies and some HD disc movies are better than some Satellite. Overall though if you had the exact same movie or show the HD disc will look better. Not huge amounts but it will be a little better for sure.
For instance when I watch Jay Leno it blows away a lot of my HD disc movies. Flipper the movie on Universal channel Satellite was amazing too. Reference quality even. But then there are a lot of channels and shows that are very so so. Just depends. But the best of the best HD discs are better than anything on Satellite.
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This is a little different though. Made for tv programs usually have colors that pop a lot, and unlike movies that are often made using film, they have very little grain (noise). However, look at a football game in HiDef. Sure, it looks fantastic when you see a close-up or there is very little movement in the picture, but when they start panning, you'll quickly see that the compression used is way too high, and you'll start seeing compression artifacts, such as macroblocks.
All being equal (i.e. movie 'xyz' shown on both sat and on hddvd/bd disc), the discs will win every time (unless for some reason it was created using a very inferior transfer, which would be very rare)