Industry Execs: HD Sets Lacking Picture Quality

Industry Execs: HD Sets Lacking Picture Quality: "Industry Execs: HD Sets Lacking Picture Quality Panelists at high-def conference say the picture often gets diluted in the transmission process.By SwanniWashington, D.C. (October 10, 2007) -- Several industry officials said today that the average HDTV owner is not getting the best possible picture on his set.At a panel discussion today at the HD World conference in New York, officials from Scientific-Atlanta, Discovery, Motorola and SES Americom said the high-def signal gets diluted during the transmission process.The corruption in image quality can be blamed on everything from the HD network's decision on how to transmit the signal to the consumer's often faulty display choices, the officials said.Consequently, they added, the HD picture diminishes in quality once it's displayed on the consumer's home screen. 'Good HD quality -- I believe that people have never really seen it,' Brian Morris, vice president of digital media for cable set-top maker Scientific-Atlanta, told HD World attendees. 'But what we're seeing today is not good HD quality.'"

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