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UPC HD Digital+ : Almost perfect
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28-10-2009 4:49pm#1I must say, I’m loving the new UPC HD. The picture quality is simply stunning – even found myself watching under 17’s football on Eurosport HD and I normally have to be bribed to stay in the room when soccer is on. It’s an unbelievable difference and we could even see moths and flies buzzing around the pitch near the players. Quite literally, I was watching two flies walking up a screen
I’ve been fiddling around with the different settings and can confirm that 1080i provides a marginally better picture than 720 but that leaving it on 1080i causes problems when you turn the box on. I don’t know what the problem is but the HDMI connection won’t pick up the signal from the box if the channel is not one of the HD ones (telly is a Sony Bravia Picture Frame 32” – about a year old). Anyway, 1080i was too much hassle for not very much so I’ve left the setting at 720. Leaving it on auto is a disaster as it switches from 1080i, to 720, to 576 depending on the channel and that was really annoying. However, leaving it at 720 still provides stunning picture quality. Still can’t believe we’re able to see things so clearly without noise or pixelling. It’s fantastic.
I am a bit bummed about two things though. First, is the loss of the analogue service – I know but let me explain. The telly was capable of picking up a few channels on its digital setting, for example; RTE 1, Setanta, Comedy, Living. We didn’t need the STB for this. It could be recording two things at once and we’d still have a few digital channels, all the analogue ones plus all the radio stations. That’s what I really miss. I know you can get the radio through the STB but I preferred it the other way and there was a better programme guide. Think it must be native to the Sony telly but it was great. On this new HD STB, there is only a port in for the co-ax cable and no port out to connect to the TV. Think we’ll have to get a splitter and hope that it works.
Second, the HD box won’t work with the Elgato video capture I had set up. At least, it won’t work if the HDMI cable is plugged in. We have to disconnect that and then the computer can pick the video signal up from the HD box. It can get an audio signal but no video for some reason. I have a sneaking suspicion that if a Scart lead was connected to a DVR from the HD box, it wouldn’t work either – at least, not until the HDMI cable is disconnected. Then it works. Am really puzzled as to why this is.
But otherwise, I love it. It's what all the HD tellys were made for.0
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When I rang they told me that I was self install capable (their exact words). I thought that was very nice of them to notice, so I said sure send me the pack and I'll keep my €30, thank you very much. I rang them, what was it Friday, and I got the box Tuesday morning and got it up and running Tuesday afternoon. I even made a little video about it, but it turned out kind of crappy, but I might upload it anyway just for the craic.
And the verdict: [borat accent] I like 0 -
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Oh yea, there is a cost involved even with the self install pack, but I didn't care about the cost that much really
I should probably keep a close eye on the bill next month as NTL have been know to have some very dodgy accounting practices.
But financial things aside, this box is well work the money. In fairness the actual HD cannels are very limited (only 4 or 5) but I absolutely love the detail and very importantly a lot of the other channels look sooooooooooo much better than on the old box. Sometimes I find myself guessing if they're HD or not. I have a 2.5 year old 32" Sony midrange LCD TV and it just looks beautiful. Finally the future has arrived
Yes it’s that good! If you can, you should just get it and don’t worry too much about the cost 0 -
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I'm Mikey23's missus.
When I rang the dude said that it was €90 because we were on Digital+ now, had we been on Analogue it would have been €60, asked about ordering online and he said no, only analogue get the €60 "deal". He did stutter and stammer a bit and used the old "I don't make the rules" chestnut which leads me to believe that he mightn't have been fully trained up or whatever, so going to see what happens when I fill in the online form.
I've had this with my darling UPC before, you ring a few times, get a few different agents and each will tell you something different. Methinks they may have a staff turnover problem.
I would love nothing more than to move to Sky, however we're very happy with our UPC broadband and it's the best value around, bringing in the cost of the landline you need for Sky, we'd be hammered.
Our Plus Box at the moment is showing all the signs of approaching death very soon so we're fairly screwed.0 -
I'm Mikey23's missus.
When I rang the dude said that it was €90 because we were on Digital+ now, had we been on Analogue it would have been €60, asked about ordering online and he said no, only analogue get the €60 "deal". He did stutter and stammer a bit and used the old "I don't make the rules" chestnut which leads me to believe that he mightn't have been fully trained up or whatever, so going to see what happens when I fill in the online form.
I've had this with my darling UPC before, you ring a few times, get a few different agents and each will tell you something different. Methinks they may have a staff turnover problem.
I would love nothing more than to move to Sky, however we're very happy with our UPC broadband and it's the best value around, bringing in the cost of the landline you need for Sky, we'd be hammered.
Our Plus Box at the moment is showing all the signs of approaching death very soon so we're fairly screwed.
i had digital + and i ordered online and only had to pay 60paulm17781 wrote: »Or wait for it to be free / switch to Sky.
doubt it will ever be free.(though i maybe corrected)
switching to sky is not always possible
and some people may not want to switch to them0 -
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I would love nothing more than to move to Sky, however we're very happy with our UPC broadband and it's the best value around, bringing in the cost of the landline you need for Sky, we'd be hammered.
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You don't need a landline for Sky - there is an additional installation charge but its <€50 from memory.
You could still keep your UPC broadband - there is an additional charges €6+ a month again from memory - details hard to find sometimes on UPC.ie !!0 -
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