DirecTV has been sued in a class action lawsuit over the picture quality of their HDTV package. As many of you know, in order to conserve bandwidth, DirecTV’s HD resolution has been down-rezed to 1440 or 1200 before it is recompressed and sent out to the satellite. The complaint argues that DirecTV violated their promise of “astonishing” picture quality when they began this practice in 2004. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Technically these resolutions are still considered HDTV, but the complaint deals with a pretty subjective judgment of whether the picture quality is as good as DirecTV promised when Mr. Cohen first subscribed in 2003.

Via TVPredictions.com