Saorview and Sky alternation

obi604

So here is the story

My parents have a standard sky box which connects to the back of the TV via scart. They don't have a sky HD signal coming in from sky and they don't want to pay for it either. The TV is HD ready.

The TV has the in built saorview

We have a standard TV aerial on the roof already. I was thinking of running a cable from the aerial to where they have the saorview TV ( this cable was removed I think when sky was installed )

And then simply plugging this cable from the aerial in to the coax connection on the back of the TV.

If I did this, would it be possible to alternate between sky and saorview by pressing the " source " button on the remote........to alternate between the sky signal coming via scart on the tv and the saorview signal coming via coax on the tv

And the reason I'd be doing all this is to give the father the chance to watch the sport in HD on rte 2 via saorview.

Do you think this would work ?

Presuming that the aerial on the roof would provide the saorview signal of course.

GarIT

Simple answer, yes.

obi604

GarIT wrote: »

Simple answer, yes.

Thanks for reply garit

And sorry for the over complicated post but I was just trying to try and pre empt all the questions ; )

obi604

Also. While I'm at it. So from this, a " HD ready " TV allows you to watch channels in HD that are broadcast in on a HD signal

And that's that

But then what does a " full hd " TV allow you to do ?

GarIT

obi604 wrote: »

Also. While I'm at it. So from this, a " HD ready " TV allows you to watch channels in HD that are broadcast in on a HD signal

And that's that

But then what does a " full hd " TV allow you to do ?

SD and HD are about picture quality, SD is standard definition and HD is high definition, a HD ready tv shows picture quality slightly better than SD but not real (full) HD.

You could put them on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the worst. SD would be 1 and HD would be 10, HD ready would be around 3 maybe 4.

muffler

Just to point out also that they could watch RTE2 in HD if they had a Sky HD box. No need for a sub to do this. You could pick up a HD box on Adverts.ie for around 50 - 80 euro

obi604

GarIT wrote: »

obi604 wrote: »

Also. While I'm at it. So from this, a " HD ready " TV allows you to watch channels in HD that are broadcast in on a HD signal

And that's that

But then what does a " full hd " TV allow you to do ?

SD and HD are about picture quality, SD is standard definition and HD is high definition, a HD ready tv shows picture quality slightly better than SD but not real (full) HD.

You could put them on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the worst. SD would be 1 and HD would be 10, HD ready would be around 3 maybe 4.

Thanks again Garit

So this thing I detail above about going to the hassle of running the aerial in to get rte 2 in high definition via saorview

Is it even worth it seeing as the television is only HD READY ?

I.e. would the father REALISTICALLY even notice the difference between watching RTE 2 on the sky box .............as opposed to watching rte 2 HD on Saorview ?

obi604

muffler wrote: »

Just to point out also that they could watch RTE2 in HD if they had a Sky HD box. No need for a sub to do this. You could pick up a HD box on Adverts.ie for around 50 - 80 euro

But doesn't that involve running in a 2nd cable from the sky antenna to the sky hd box ?

GarIT

I can't really comment on it, there is an improvement, some people would notice it, it depends on eyesight and attention to detail.

For the sky solution I think you would.

Cesium Clock

muffler wrote: »

Just to point out also that they could watch RTE2 in HD if they had a Sky HD box. No need for a sub to do this. You could pick up a HD box on Adverts.ie for around 50 - 80 euro

No, you will need a sky sub to receive any Irish channel via sky,

obi604

Cesium Clock wrote: »

No, you will need a sky sub to receive any Irish channel via sky,

ok but they are already paying a subscription to sky for channels

but I presume , they would need to pay extra to get RTE in HD via sky

Mimikyu

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obi604

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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is this a new thing captain morgan ?

muffler

Cesium Clock wrote: »

No, you will need a sky sub to receive any Irish channel via sky,

sorry should have said HD sub as the OP already stated that they had a basic sub.

obi604

I have a login to the parents account online via the sky website

Out of interest there, I logged in and went to :

my sky > my package > view my package details

then I seen the details on the bog standard box that we have now
then I clicked on " add box "


after clicking this, it says :

Awaiting Delivery

Our records show that you may currently be awaiting a visit related to your hardware. You cannot therefore purchase boxes at this time.



interesting................
no one has asked for sky to come and visit as we hadnt complained about anything or we are not awaiting delivery of anything from them
wonder will that visit ever happen

obi604

No, you will need a sky sub to receive any Irish channel via sky,

Just to point out also that they could watch RTE2 in HD if they had a Sky HD box. No need for a sub to do this. You could pick up a HD box on Adverts.ie for around 50 - 80 euro

muffler wrote: »

sorry should have said HD sub as the OP already stated that they had a basic sub.

Sorry im confused with these posts : So just to clear things up on this


if one just has a normal sky subscription ( i.e. NOT paying the € 15 extra a month for the HD pack )
AND if one has a sky + HD box installed

Can you get RTE 2 in HD this way ?

muffler

obi604 wrote: »

Sorry im confused with these posts : So just to clear things up on this


if one just has a normal sky subscription ( i.e. NOT paying the € 15 extra a month for the HD pack )
AND if one has a sky + HD box installed

Can you get RTE 2 in HD this way ?

Yes thats correct. What I meant with my earlier post is that you dont have to pay the €15/month extra for HD.

If the equipment (box and TV) is HD then you will be able to view any available free HD channels. As your parents are subscribed to the basic Sky pack they would then be able to view RTE2 in HD. BBC would also be available in HD. There may be a couple of others.

obi604

Sound. Thanks Muffler

Mimikyu

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