I can def say it doesnt look as good as the HD DVD but it does look good. However smiley those grey bars you have on your tv must come from Directv because once this HD was installed I get grey bars on almost every channel. A couple I dont but most I do. It is quite annoying but if I set the 1080i to crop it crops half the picture out. still trying to figure that part out lol. I def will be using the DVR function of the reciever

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*edit ok watching Discovery HD and OMG is the clarity just amazing on this channel. The movie channels are amazing as well. Its the local channels (3/13/17) that dont look very good though they look better than reg tv

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