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Originally posted by Moneyguy1
but who can trust a company with a TV spot claiming that HDTV is free?
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HD is free. It's OTA, Over The Air. All you need is an HDTV or HD ready TV and the HD box(not a Cox Box). Hook up the box to your TV and hook that up to an antenna(or antenna straight to TV if it has an ATSC tuner) on your roof, poof Free HD programming.
Sure you have to have a Dish or HD cable to get shows like HD Discovery, and HD Premium channels, but the original statement holds true, as HD CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, etc... are all broadcast for free.
Now I will agree that Cox mis-advertises their digital cable, and claims it to be better than satellite. From what I remember Cox has limited bandwidth, and can only supply a 240i via coax, where as satellite is a full 480i resolution, non-progressive DVD quality(non-HD for both of course).
Just to compare. That 240i that digital cable can offer is less than the 400 lines of resolution an SVHS can offer, and still slightly less than a standard VCR at 250.
OTA broadcast with a good antenna are close to 500 lines of resolution.