I ordered We are Marshall on ON-Demand from my cable supplier and was not impressed. The close ups and the slow moving shots were great but the actual game shots and the running shots were pixelated or blurry. I dont know the correct term for it, but basically it was bad. I have an HD rear projection tv (57" Hitachi) I have the HD cable box from Comcast (Motorola) and the settings on the box are set to 1080i. When I watched discover channel it looks amazing but for some reason this didnt look very good at all. The box is connected to the tv using Monster Component cables. The reason I am worried about it is that my "upconverting" dvd player is busted and we are considering buying a Blue Ray player. I dont want to spend $500 and get the same kind of picture I am getting with my cable box. The Blue-Ray will be connected using and HDMI cable not component. So is it the cable box? The tv or just the fact that anything there is a fast moving seen I will see this drop in quality. Thanks, David

According to the movie title and the section of OnDemand that I ordered it from it was an HD movie. The tv also said it was getting a 1080i input. When I watch something that is not HD the tv will say its 480i.

I see, so I shouldnt see this when I purchase a Blu-Ray player and watch a Blu-Ray dvd?

i would agree - this is absolutely a bandwidth / compression issue w/your cable co... blu-ray and hd-dvd when mastered right (which most are) look amazing!

Quoting Ascended_Saiyan:

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In contrast, Blu-ray has 40Mbps for video alone and a buffer that allows up to 50Mbps bursts.  You won't see pixelated pictures like your On-Demand cable provides you with on Blu-ray.  There is a good amount of bandwidth with Blu-ray.  We can always use more bandwidth, but right now Blu-ray offers the most to consumers.

Must you turn this thread into another useless debate on formats??? 

I really understand why people block you now.  Trolling forums with your useless Blu-ray crap.

The biggest issue here is the provider "Comcast".  A piece of worthless crap. Never trust comcast for they don't know what they are doing and will tell you what you want to hear and will never tell you the truth.  I have caught comcast is many many lies.  Direct TV or AT&T U-verse is the only way to go.

Quoting leo1963:

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The biggest issue here is the provider "Comcast".  A piece of worthless crap. Never trust comcast for they don't know what they are doing and will tell you what you want to hear and will never tell you the truth.  I have caught comcast is many many lies.  Direct TV or AT&T U-verse is the only way to go.

Oh, great!  I just found out that Insight Broadband, my cable/phone/internet provider has been bought out by Comcast and will be changing over on Jan. 1.