There is a lot of baseball being broadcast in HDTV ![[Answers]](http://www.mikeyp.com/css/external.gif)
this year, and I'm loving every minute of it. I get HD via an antenna on my roof (OTA ) and via Comcast cable, but since most HD baseball is shown only on Fox Sports, I usually end up watching the feed via cable.
There is a noticeable amount of 'tiling' and 'blockyness' on just about every Comcast HD channel, and I find it especially noticeable when watching sports like baseball. Why is this the case, and why is it that I don't see this degraded picture quality when watching sports via OTA?
A fellow HD enthusiast asked Fox Sports the same question, and Fox confirmed our suspicions: Comcast does indeed re-compress the already compressed HDTV digital signal. The full reply is posted on the Yahoo HDTV-in-SFBay group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HDTV-in-SFbay/message/17145
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