What is the difference between small dish HD and C-Band HD?
Small dish programming, with the exception of certain pay-per-view movie channels, is sourced from C-Band originated originals. The small dish companies, like cable companies, have C-Band reception equipment, which they use to capture the signal, encode it, compress it, and rebroadcast it. All this signal manipulation naturally results in compromised picture quality. HD broadcasts will be handled in the same manner. To provide a premium movie channel on a small dish, the small dish programmer will capture it from the C-Band original, encode, compress and rebroadcast the program.
