Comcast recently commissioned a study that concluded their HD picture quality is superior to DirecTV and Dish, following it up with full page ads in 15 newspapers and radio spots planned.
The study was conducted in March, with 309 subjects showed side-by-side images from DirecTV, Dish and Comcast on identical TV sets. To eliminate set bias, the HD signals were rotated among the sets. Subjects were shown various genres of programming from different networks. 66 percent preferred Comcast to DirecTV, and 70 percent preferred Comcast to Dish.
Dish has no comment, though DirecTV says: “While they’re making claims about their signal clarity, the methodology of the survey seems questionable at best.” Of course, neither Comcast nor the Sat guys have anything to say how their possibly compressed video compares to OTA. ;)
(via Lost Remote)