Tuesday, July 10, 2007
4 to 1
Ok, a quick rant. What the hell is Direct TV talking about when they say they beat cable quality 4 to 1. It's on that stupid Pam Anderson Baywatch spoof commercial that they did. 4 to 1 what??? 4 to 1 more "genius" commercials made? 4 to 1 evil monkeys shown??? WTF? Watch it sometime and pay attention to the words (not the boobs), and you'll see.
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I believe they are saying that their HD package has 4 times more HD channels than cable. The quality of said channels aren't any better, but there are more of them. That is my thought.
Ok, I just saw the commercial and they actually say that DirectTV's "picture quality beats cable 4 to one". Hmmm, that is rather vague. In tiny print across the bottom of the commercial it says "Based on national survey of professional home theater installers." It doesn't give any references to this survey other than that. Did they only survey DirectTV installers? I'm gonna check out their webpage to see if they have any references to this survey.
Can't find it on their website, but they do mention several times that 100% of their channels are digital, unlike cable. I don't know about you, but I know all of my cable channels are digital. I think that is the distinction they are trying to make, though. They say cable has a mix of digital and analog channels, which is mostly bullshit.
All digital here now too...I think they are just making up random and vague statistics. I think 98% of the time, commercials are full of crap (done by a survey of people posting blogs on this site from Houston, TX, Djibouti).
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