I'm required to have local channels from DirecTV. I'd rather not and for this reason. Your signal to DirecTV is very poor quality, I'd say digititally compressed analog singal, it's blurry, definitely not a digital signal rebroadcast. It's as if it were coming to you digitally, converted to analog, then redigitized and broadcast out to us again. ...

I'm also on DirecTV and the signal is analog quality from the early 90's with an attempt to digitize it poorly. The sound drops out more frequently than the picture but it's still very poor quality compared to other national networks.So far tonight I've missed a quarter of the Miss Universe 2008 broadcast.