| Only a cutting edge network like the Verizon FiOS | | | | has a high end TV that was made for HD |
| fiber optic network can deliver TV programming | | | | programming. |
| with enough quality to really give customers the | | | | Verizon FiOS is the only network in the country |
| full HD experience. Thousands of people spend a | | | | that uses fiber optic cables to deliver TV |
| lot of money on high tech state of the art HD | | | | programming and fast Internet service directly |
| televisions and then are disappointed with the | | | | into people's homes. Cable TV providers and |
| quality of the image. There's nothing wrong with | | | | satellite providers may use fiber optic cables along |
| the TV, it's the TV service that causes a low | | | | their networks between hubs in order to make it |
| quality image. | | | | faster for information to flow along the backbone |
| When the TV and movie studios create TV | | | | of the network but many of those services still |
| programming and movies that are optimized for | | | | use old copper cables or coaxial cables to deliver |
| HD, the programming they create gets | | | | programming and Internet service directly to |
| compressed in order to travel along the networks | | | | customers. That's like attaching a garden hose to |
| that different cable and TV services use. While | | | | a fire hose and siphoning off water. In the |
| that data is traveling, little pieces of it can get lost | | | | process, a lot of information and a great deal of |
| in transit on networks that aren't as high quality | | | | the high quality TV programming which has been |
| as the Verizon network. That missing data will | | | | optimized for HD, gets lost. Once that information |
| lessen the quality of the picture that the | | | | is lost, the picture quality will start to deteriorate. |
| customer eventually sees, even if the customer | | | | |