Old Sky Remote Codes Question for New TV

spfeno

Hi all,

just bought a new 42" LG LCD TV to replace my old SONY CRT. Tried looking for the code to reprogramme the SKY remote for the LG but any of the listed codes don't work. The SKY remote is about 4 years old. Would it be too old or would the LG TV be too new and maybe not have a code yet.

Any help would be appreciated guys - it's a real pain walking around with two remotes (problems, problems I hear you say:o )

Thanks in anticipation

ffocused

try the Goldstar codes. I have an LG LCD and i think it was one of them that worked.

HungryJoey

I am having the same problem getting my Sky Remote to work with my Samsung LCD. I have tried over 30 codes. None work from various sites, Sky Pages etc..

Hj

kbell

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054988239

watty

Older Sky remotes won't work. There are at least 3 revisions. Buying a new one may be needed for the code to work if your remote is any older than when any models using the code came out. Each later revision does more models.

byte

HungryJoey wrote:

I am having the same problem getting my Sky Remote to work with my Samsung LCD. I have tried over 30 codes. None work from various sites, Sky Pages etc..

Hj

Have you tried using a different Sky remote? I'm pretty certain that Sky remotes can work Samsung LCD's, although the volume control for most Samsung TV's is icky with a Sky remote (you have to repeatedly press the volume +/- buttons to alter volume incrementally).

As for LG (Lucky Goldstar), yes try Goldstar codes, otherwise try a remote with a new revision. The newer Sky remotes are now grey, not blue like the older ones.

spfeno

Thanks for all the replies guys - will have to get new remote so !



Just a few more questions ........ (as Colombo used to say) :cool:

1. Since I've bought the new LCD, every time I turn it on I have noticed that it creaks intermittently for about 15 - 20 minutes. The CRT's (as far as I remember) used to do this too - as if it is warming up ??? Is this commonplace - has any one else experience of this ?

2. Watched A PERFECT STORM on TG4 this evening - picture and sound quality was excellent except for the end where aqua scenes of actors thrashing around in ultra stormy seas were extremely blurred and in some instances appeared briefly 'negatised' (for want of a better word). I has heard that this may be the case on occasion for the LCD TV's. Can anyone tell me if I have to put up with this for good or will all this improve when HD rolls out ?

watty

LCD TVs currently are mostly poor. HDTV does not make any difference to pastel shades or dark shades (poor on LCD TVs) or rapid movement. Interlace to progressive ALWAYS degrades fast moving pictures, especially tends to blur them. All LCDs / Plasma are progressive and all SD TV is interlace and nearly all HD is interlace.

If your LCD is 1366 x 768 it doesn't have standard HD resolution which is 1920 x 1080i for almost all HD broadcasts.

It will be years before Irish TV is HD. You will have a new set by then as even BBC has not started a service yet. BBC HD is only a trial which ends next April.

The creaking is heat from backlight mostly and cabinet straining with expansion.

spfeno

Thanks for the reply Watty. This (and indeed other related forums) are absolutely fantastic

The tv is HD ready so I'm presuming it has the necessary resolution to sustain high definition. Am I wrong in this assumption ?

Re. the HD roll out - when is SKY HD expected to be released here ?
(I'm a SKY subscriber)

DigiDec

Sky HD was released here last May, check out sky.com

watty

HD Ready just means it will show the picture. It unfortunately implies nothing about picture quality or resolution. Even some 480 lines plasma are "HD Ready" (less sharpeness / lines than even ordinary European TV!).

Sky HD is here already.

But not very many channels. Of course the box works also with ordinary Sky channels. It is like Sky+ with HD added.
HD:
Some Sky1 on SkyHD
Sky Movies HD
Sky Sport HD
BBC HD trial
Performance
Nat Geo HD
Discovery HD

Most of these are different content to the non-HD channels. You get both.
Sky1 HD is particularly lacking in true HD content. They upscale. Your TV unless 1920 x 768 has to rescale all HD. Your TV already upscales all normal TV content, so this results in two rescaling.

Unless you want Sport, Nat Geo and Discovery and have a TV larger than 36" then currently HD IMO is a bit of waste of money at the moment.

The Sky HD box requires a Sky+ sub and a SkyHD sub, so FTA without a sub it won't record and only shows BBCHD in HD (it may later resample ALL HD to ordinary SD without a sub). If you have an everything package, then I thing there is no extra charges.