Good afternoon guys. I just thought I'd share a little rant with everyone here this lovely weekend. I've been a Dish HD subscriber for almost two years now, and I've been the proud owner of the Dish VIP622 HD-DVR. Great set, great DVR interface... pretty much everything I've ever wanted for my TV watching. I used to have this television:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-KD-36XS955-T ... B00067AXYU
It was an older CRT 4:3 HDTV, but the quality was pretty good. I did want to move on to something bigger and better though, so I sold it to a friend and got the following TV from Best Buy on a memorial day sale:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=953059
Based off that thread from avsforum and a few other things I had read about this set, I decided to take the plunge and buy it. I have to say, for such an inexpensive HDTV ($825 sales tax included out the door), it looks pretty incredible. After setting brightness/contrast and color levels with Avia Home Theater, it looks pretty incredible. Blu-ray movies on my PS3 are particularly impressive in all their 1080p glory.
However, I must say that this added definition really hurts my viewing experience with Dish Network HD. On my old TV, Dish HD looked just as good as any blu-ray movie I played. Now that I have a larger TV with higher detail, every flaw on Dish HD screams at me. Most of my upconverted standard def DVDs played through my PS3 look much better than the HD channels I'm getting from Dish Network. They added a lot of HD channels shortly before I got my new TV... I have to say that I'm a bit frustrated with DTV and Dish HD's philosophy that quantity is better than quality. I would much rather have 25 or 30 high bandwidth HD channels from them than the 90 channels worth of low bitrate garbage they're streaming my way right now.
Just wanted to get that off my chest... I have Netflix and will be renting many blu-ray movies to enjoy on my new tv rather than watching a lot of HDTV on Dish Network. What are fellow gerbil's thoughts on this?