Benefits of HD box with the subscription??

lazyman

Hi all,
I am an existing sky plus customer,
I was thinking about getting a HD box without the subscription,
A lot of people have said this can be done as it would improve my sky,
However when I rang sky, the girl told me that there is no benefit at all to my picture, just to the epg, if I do this,
I she correct?
I imagined that the hdmi feed alone would make it an improvement on my existing scart connection?
Thanks and sorry if this has been asked tons of times
Lazy

paultf

HD+ box without subscription:-

* better EPG
* more space for recording
* access to BBC HD and ITV HD (if you have a HD TV and HDMI cable)
* ITV HD isn't on the Irish EPG so you can't record
* not sure: if you don't have Sky HD sub, is BBC HD on the Irish EPG? If it is not you can't record, like ITV HD.
* from what I have seen in other posts, most of the Sky anytime is HD so if you don't have Sky HD sub you won't have access to them

I think that's all.

John mac

thats about it, bbchd is on ch 143 and is recordable, also has 5.1 sound on some programs.
(without a hd sub)

luxe HD is the other hd channel.

I dont think there is any great (noticeable) improvement in pic quallity
between hdmi and scart on the sd channels.

JDxtra

Depending on your TV and TV settings, some people have reported a decrease in picture quality of the SD channels on a Sky+ HD box.

lucernarian

I'm sorting out a sky installation for someone this week, what sort of HD box are we likely to get? The customer is getting a HD box without any HD subscription as it simply came free as standard. I'm concerned I'll get some sort of amstrad muck. Are we likely to get a better brand of box like a panasonic or a pace if we ask the sky installer nicely?!:D

manutd

The only boxes been installed now are the Aamstrad or the Samsung 500GB box (250GB- Anytime and 250GB- recording space)

lucernarian

Would the installer likely give me a samsung box if I asked him for one instead of an Amstrad?

Myrddin

Does the installer have the freedom to choose the box? From what I remember when my Sky was getting installed, the boxes of my decoders had my name & address printed on them already.