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Originally Posted by Raider999

As this process started soon after the introduction of HD that would have been forward thinking indeed.

In reality, I suspect the wishes of many subscribers to have more HD channels combined with the limited amount of satellite space led to ever more compression to squeeze more HD channels onto each satellite - resulting in compromising the picture quality

Fair point but still think they could be holding off improving HD picture quality so as to make uhd seem so much better!