UPC upgrade from analogue to digital

ronaneire

I am just wondering would anyone know, I am thinking of upgrading from analogue to digital (getting the free digital recorder) what are the ouput connections at the back of the digital receiver/decoder? Is just the standard scart output or are there other types?

Thanks

paulm17781

Just scart and usual. Phono and optical, I think. No HDMI or anything fancy.

podge3

Depends on the box. My Sagem has just 2 scarts and a digital aduio jack. Here is the manual: http://support.sagem-communication.com/site/livret/LU_UK_ITD64_62_61_60_58.pdf


Make sure to use a scart lead with full RGB as the supplied cable is composite only and the signal is crap.

ronaneire

Cool thanks... So their technology has really advanced

watty

Unless you have
EITHER
HD on UPC (there isn't)
OR
an HDTV with really rubbish RGB SCART upscalling

THEN
HDMI has no value compared to RGB SCART for UPC Cable Digital, especially given the lower quality than Satellite.
Composite SCART is much poorer
Component is identical quality to RGB.

paulm17781

podge3 wrote: »

Depends on the box.

ronaneire wrote:

I am just wondering would anyone know, I am thinking of upgrading from analogue to digital (getting the free digital recorder)

KeyserSöze

The latest UPC DVR is one of these AFAIK - a Thomson 6000.

http://www.thomson.net/SiteCollectionDocuments/Products/Data%20sheets/Cable/STB/datasheet_6000_cable_en_112008.pdf

ronaneire

It gets better See I have an AVR and was hoping I could plug the box directly into it, its HDMI from the AVR to the TV but the AVR don't have scart has it went out with the Indians. It has every other type of input though:pac: