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Sky+ vs. Sky+ HD with new TV

  • 07-01-2009 2:02pm
    #1
    Dero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭


    Hi all.
    I currently have Sky+ and a Sony CRT TV. I am going to upgrade the TV to a full HD LCD and am wondering what advantages might accrue from switching to Sky+HD also. I don't have any sports or movie channels, and I won't be getting any.

    Obviously the HD box has a bigger disk, but I have a 120Gb disk in the Sky+ box so it's not a significant issue.

    As far as I can tell, outside of the sport and movie channels, there is currently very little actual HD content at the moment, so I don't think it's worth getting on that score. What I'm curious about is picture quality of the Sky+HD box when feeding a full HD TV over HDMI.

    So, what I am wondering really is whether the Sky+HD box via HDMI performs better with SD content than a standard Sky+ box feeding a full HD TV via scart (RGB)?

    Anyone got any ideas or opinions?


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  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    No significant difference unless your HD TV has a rubbish SCART, as long as you use RGB mode. After all VGA is is also Analogue and can be fine at 1600 x1200 75Hz on a decent monitor. Regular TV is 720x 576 25i. The RGB SCART signals are electrically similar to VGA.


    Obviously HDMI is needed to get ANY HD. HD costs more and there is indeed little content.

    There could have been an HD version of SCART, like there is of Component. But HDCP (copy protection) doesn't work on Analog, only on some DVI and most HDMI. Newer HD receivers don't support HD on component any more, only on HDMI.


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