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Well mine went in yesterday and I have to say I was very impressed with the engineer. He did a top job with the cable routing. Very tidy.

The PQ is excellent although I did notice quite a few compression artifacts on Sky Movies 9 HD while watching Shrek2 last night.

BBC HD test is a bit of a let down. The preview that runs during the day is ace but the programming in the evening is in SD and occupies a box in the middle of the screen with some text at the bottom telling you that the source isn't HD material.
 
So far very impresed with HD picture quality on my Samsung 32" LCD screen.

For SD I have to have the Sky box set to 720p or 1080i as on auto the 576 picture is worse than scart. This is true on both HDMI and Component output.

National Geographic and BBC HD are absolutly stunning, but not so impressed with some of the other chanels that seem to broadcast in what looks like 14:9 with bars down the side of the screen.

Need to sort out routing the HD output upstairs now either by 10 to 15 meter Component cable or over Cat5.

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Rilot said:
BBC HD test is a bit of a let down. The preview that runs during the day is ace but the programming in the evening is in SD and occupies a box in the middle of the screen with some text at the bottom telling you that the source isn't HD material.
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Saturday - 7pm - Midnight = Planet Earth all the episodes to date ;)
 
Datamonkey said:
Hey up,

do the hd boxes have the sky plus feature? do they have a hdd built in?


Cheers
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They sure do, think they have a 300gb hd, with 160 for recording.

Just had mine installed, bbc channel is stunning, shame you cant record it !
 
nice one, think i will be going for this at the end of june then when i move into my new place cheers


was just going to get the sky + but for an extra tenner may as well go the whole hog
 
Hmmm when i press the record button , it doesnt record, i can set programs manualy to record.

But when the sky dude was here, he recorded a few using the record button, think i got a problem :rolleyes:
 
bobbyboy uk said:
Hmmm when i press the record button , it doesnt record, i can set programs manualy to record.

But when the sky dude was here, he recorded a few using the record button, think i got a problem :rolleyes:
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Do you have any recordings on the box?
 
Tesla said:
Do you have any recordings on the box?
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nope, i think ive sorted it, the engineer set it to 1080i, i changed it to 720p,just changed it back to 1080i and it records ok now, verry odd indeed.
 
One thing I really really want to know do the SD channels looks better through the hdmi then on a normal sky + box because on my hitechi lcd some of the channels from sky look pap.
 
vintage-x said:
One thing I really really want to know do the SD channels looks better through the hdmi then on a normal sky + box because on my hitechi lcd some of the channels from sky look pap.
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I think they look slightly worse :(
 
vintage-x said:
That dosent sound good Im not talking about compared to Hd channels because I mainly watch other channels then the one which are being offered in HD
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I mean compared to my old sky box through rgb, they look slightly fuzzy , sky news used to be very good on my old box, doesnt look that good through the hdmi on the sky hd box.
 
bobbyboy uk said:
nope, i think ive sorted it, the engineer set it to 1080i, i changed it to 720p,just changed it back to 1080i and it records ok now, verry odd indeed.
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I would imagine your TV is down scaling the 1080i image too now.
 
bobbyboy uk said:
I mean compared to my old sky box through rgb, they look slightly fuzzy , sky news used to be very good on my old box, doesnt look that good through the hdmi on the sky hd box.
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I find they look far better with the box set to Auto ;)
 
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