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hatchman wrote: »

What box have you for freesat and saorview ? I'm thinking of ditching sky for the same the HD quality isn't good on my sky box. I will miss the record function tho !

To be honest, I can't think of the full name of it!!! But I bought if from a satellite tv shop in Fairview, Dublin. He gave me great advice on what my needs were, and he gave me a demo of a few boxes. All of which, had much better HD than my sky box had. He said the quality of Sky HD was less than 720p (I think) and that all the boxes he sold were 1080p (again, I think!!)

I think my box is an Amiko and it has a record facility built in. It was less than 250 euro if I recall.

I've been under the weather lately, so have been bed ridden a fair bit, hence the lack of clarity.

pegasus1 wrote: »

There are no transmissions in 1080P..less than 720P so 480P which is SD..

Think he was having you on there...

Whatever it was... Can't remember clearly (which is why I said "I think")

All I can say, is that the HD quality is far superior than the sky box.

The very same. Simply unplugged the sky box, threw it in the bin, and added new box, to same port. Instantly a better picture... And it wasn't the Sky box being faulty, as I had changed sky box about 3/4 years ago for a HDD fault, and there was no change to quality on that change over. This was instantly obviously a huge picture upgrade on the HD channels.

satelliteman20 wrote: »

the alien 2 with its sh4 chip is known to have one of the best hd and sd pics of any box including most broadcom e2 boxes which cost much more such as the tm 3t or vu + and comparing it to a sky hd box it has a sharper more vibrant hd picture with more detail

Layman's terms please? :-)