I agree - the "CD Quality" is just marketing. It tends to get slapped on any digital audio format - CD is digital, this is digital, therefore, it must be CD quality. Since the video is MPEG-2, I suppose the music stations are MP2 or MP3 format - lossy compression so you can't expect it to be much good, unless you've downgraded your standards to Napster quality.
Comment- "CD" Quality of DirectTV&DishN.
(THIS POSTED UNDER AUDIO ADVICE/ BUT I AM REPOSTING HERE AS THIS FORUM MAY BE MORE APPROPRIATE-- SORRY FOR THE DOUBLE POST) I have the "CD Quality" package with my satellite service (Dish Network), which is a bunch of "audio-only" "CD Quality" channels (no commercials and channels are separated by music type). This is a great idea, but I have found the sound quality to be horrible. Anyone else agree or disagree? What about Direct TV's audio only channels? In fact, I think that the audio accompanys the video on movie stations is better than the audio only channels, do you agree? Here is the setup, I have the digital optical output of the dish satellite box connected to a digital jitter filter, which is connected via coax to a separate D/A converter, which is connected vai balanced XLR into a high quality stereo (sonic frontiers/ Vandersteen). I thought I'd have some cool sound, but the popular stations sound thin, veiled and are virtually unlistenable. What does everyone else think?