They do this internally, but you can check it for yourself as well. Just get a PC capture card that will capture both OTA and QAM. Then capture the same channel from each source and compare. Here in Tampa, Ch28 isn't recompressed that much, but other channels are.
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Ben Drawbaugh @ Aug 30th 2007 9:59AM
They do this internally, but you can check it for yourself as well. Just get a PC capture card that will capture both OTA and QAM. Then capture the same channel from each source and compare. Here in Tampa, Ch28 isn't recompressed that much, but other channels are.