How Do You Rate Your Pq?

[stratman]

Nielsen that beloved corporation that manages to call you even when you're on the government's "don't call" list released some interesting numbers on how consumers grade their PQ, always a topic of interesting conversation around these hills. According to a survey conducted by Nielsen, comprised of 511 adults between June 28 and July 10 revealed that nearly 85% of HDTV owners rate the picture quality of their TV as "excellent" or "above average", but less than 40% say the same about the selection of high-definition programming available to them. The actual breakdown follows: 47.9% called their pq "excellent", 37.4% called it "above average", 10.3% called it "average", 2% or less called it "below average or poor". However, 37.6% called their selection quality "average", 11.7% called it "excellent" and 27.5% calling it "above average". Interestingly 19.7% said they watch more TV after acquiring an HDTV. Rounding out programming favored by viewing sample broke down in to this order: movies and sports are the most watched content in HD, followed by scripted dramas, documentaries and scripted comedies. ESPN is the most watched network for it's program type, followed by the Discovery Channel, HBO and CBS for scripted drama. How do you rate your self against these numbers?

They didn't say in the survey if it was based on satellite TV or cable. These numbers were just released.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

This would have had more meaning 3 weeks ago.

3 weeks ok I would have rated my PQ as "average", based on the amount of options to get a good source to the TV and the selection of high-definition programming available to me would have been poor.

Today I would rate both as "excellent"

 

[hemiram]

I would say PQ is very good on most channels, with Discovery HD Theatre being excellent, and the local PBS station being ok, to pretty poor, depending on what is happening at the time. When I was watching, "The War", I saw all kinds of the weird artifacts that only the PBS station has during some scenes, but other times, it looked pretty decent. Their problems seem to consist mostly when there is fast motion on the screen, and I may be nuts, but black objects seem to cause the most problems. No other local or national channel has this same issue.

ESPN 1 & 2 look pretty good, to "fuzzy" depending on what they are showing. I think they say stuff is HD and it's not, it's just stretched and "Shown" over the HD channel. They had something on a couple days ago, and it looked really fuzzy, worse than ESPN 2 SD.

 

[stratman]

There's one channel I find just as good as Discovery Theater, MHD, all types of music performances, pq is excellent.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I rate my PQ as excellent, but I don't watch TV. I only watch DVDs. (This includes TV shows, which I buy in season sets.)