[herdfan]

circa 1997 when they started adding every shopping channel in existence and over-compressing everything else.

 

[herdfan]

When they got forced into trying to provide every local station in the country and now the HD versions.

In hindsight, D* and E* should have come to an agreement to dual broadcast locals. There is no reason every local channel needs to be up there twice.

 

[herdfan]

If you're so unhapppy switch to cabletv.

Cable's worse. My cable company is on its 3rd, soon to be 4th owner in 12 years. No HD, just got DVR's etc. Only good thing is fast and stable internet. Probably because they lagged behind DSL for 1.5 years and don't have large base sucking up bandwidth.