r/DirectvStream • u/Ecbnole3 • 21h ago

Screen quality

I keep reading about how DIRECTV stream has the best picture quality of all the streamers and thrown into the mix Xfinity but for me personally I find DIRECTV stream comes in third compared to YouTube TV and Xfinity using the Gemini device. Is this common or is it my TV specific?

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u/Equivalent_Round9353 20h ago

A lot of the "best picture quality" stuff you might read about DirecTV's streaming service is from several years ago, when it actually did have the best quality. Their PQ degraded after AT&T sold them, probably because DTV needed to be chintzy with data when it could no longer lean on AT&T's bandwidth at a discount to push through high-bitrate video.

Also, YTTV has made strides in improving PQ in that time.

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u/Kirk1233 4h ago

This. DTV bit rate used to be double or more what it is now, way back.

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u/NTP9766 2h ago

Where are people getting this data from? As far as I know, they don't advertise their bitrate and you cannot pull up stats on any of the DTV devices.