Video Quality of Basketball

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I don't have a single problem with Peacock or Netflix or Prime.    All on the exact same equipment.     If there is any compatibility issue, it is on the DTVS end.   

I am not the only person complaining about this.    Are you going to acknowledge the problem or not?   

The DIRECTV video stream resolution may be limited to comply with certain technical and security parameters that are required of DIRECTV by our content providers. Kesiah, DIRECTV Community Team

I don't have a single problem with Peacock or Netflix or Prime.

Are you watching live and "fast moving" content on any of these? There are technical limitations with compression.  When compressing a pre-recorded show, the time compression takes is not significant and multiple passes can be made through the content for compression optimization.  Also, changes from one frame to another are typically minimal, which helps a great deal with compression.

When dealing with live TV, compression needs to happen in near real time, and multi-pass is not an option.  And when a lot of action is occurring, there are a lot of changes between frames, meaning more video data to process.  This means less video information can be encoded in the same amount of data sent each second.  That will result in lesser quality.

Different providers may have better or worse encoders, so there may be differences between content from the ESPN app vs the DIRECTV STREAM app for the same game.  This is a fair test of video quality... you're watching the same thing.  But comparing a movie on Netflix to streamed live sports is always going to make the live sports look bad, regardless of the provider.

Well Jeff, my whole post was about basketball video quality, so yes, there are fast moving scenes.   No kidding, technical issues with compression?   Well, the other networks are obviously using something that works much better, apples to apples.   And what support do you get from DirectV?   A bunch of nonsense about compatibility and video compression.  Seems pretty clear to me that for whatever reasons, DirecTV is just ignoring their customers.

my whole post was about basketball video quality

You were the one that brought up "Peacock or Netflix or Prime".  I was pointing out the fallacy in comparing them to live sports, as it is NOT an "apples to apples" comparison.  (Neither is comparison to pre-recorded sports, so "on-demand" ESPN is only slightly a better comparison to those above.  Live ESPN would be fair.)

Fallacy?   Not apples to apples?   Delusional.  There is no fair.   There is only the results.   And DirectV is unwatchable for fast moving sports such as basketball.   And now, you may return to your word salads.

Fine.  Move along.  Why did you post, if you didn't want feedback?