ONKYO 605 - S-Video to HMDI Picture quality...

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Hi,

i have just purchased a system consisting of an Onkyo 605 AV receiver, Q acoustics 1010 5.1 speaker system.

I was going to connect the Amp to the TV by a single HDMI cable, but the guy in the shop insisted that the quality of the picture from a SKY+ box connected to the amp by S Video (and then passed through the HDMI cable) was very poor and i would be much better of using a dedicated Scart lead to go from the SKY+ box to the TV. Does anyone have any experience of connecting a SKY box to the amp in this way?

The speaker cable i've got as part of the deal is QED QX16/2 - this will be channeled into the walls with the speakers mounted on the walls, can anyone give me their opinion on this?

Thanks

Richard

 

[D.J.KRIME]

In my opionion the guy in the shop is right as to use a a scart direct to your tv rather than going through you amp making sure that you are using a RGB scart as this will give better results than S-video, yes your amp will up-convert the S-video signal to HDMI but dont expect miricals. Another option is to buy a scart to component cable alowing you to use the RGB from the Sky box then run this through your amp and the results will definatly be better than that of S-video.

 

[Anonymous]

thanks for that.

Do you have any opinion regarding the quality of the speaker cable i mentioned above?

Thanks

Richard