Directv HDTV and Mitsubishi

The story so far. I stupidly bought an HD "ready" TV 6 years too early. Now that I actually want to use the HD 1080 resolution of my TV - I have to adapt to the standard that was adopted after my TV was created. This may be unique to the 1999 1/2 year versions of the Mitsubishi HD TV's.

Mitsubishi guessed (wrong) that the inputs for what they called DTV (Digital TV) would have an RGBHV signal. The standards group arrived at YPrPb (or HDMI).

In order to connect my VS-60803 TV with my new Directv HD Tivo box, I bought a Key Digital KD-CTCA3. ($300) and a VGA to 5 BNC cable ($19). Following the instructions provided and a tech note from Mitsubishi about a hidden menu to enable the RGBHV connections for HD almost had it working. I called Key Digital for advise and once the technician made sure I was driving the Directv box at 1080i, he had me swap the H and V BNC connectors on the back of the TV - which I probably would have never tried.

One cool thing about the new Directv HD Tivo box over my old Sony DirecTivo box is that it will record over the air HD signals - so even though the local broadcasters aren't on Directv's feeds, I can still Tivo CSI, and my other favorite shows.

A lot of my previous rant still stands - I feel that the non-HD pictures that are sent by Directv are sub standard - and over compressed. They lack detail, lacking more detail than the original source.

Am I really alone in my general disappointment with Directv non-HD quality? The number of MPEG artifacts are starting to drive me nuts.