picture problem

[admin_exported]

hi

just had my sky hd box today and SD picture seems worse than the one i got via my built in freesat,

the 3sat dish is only a week old with a quad lmb on it,

is there anything i can do to get the SD PQ up to the 3sat standard i once had

 

[Andrew Everard]

Umm if you have a quad, why not run the onboard Freesat from that, too?

 

[Anonymous]

set the sky box to output "auto" you should then have the same quality pictures as with the freesat , as your tv will be upscaling , as it does with the freesat , as opposed to your sky box upscaling , which it probably currently is ..

 

[Anonymous]

I, like a number of others on this forum, find 1080i to be the preferred output.

Can't see a significant difference with HD (SD pretty rubbish on both) and no annoying lag when changing between HD and SD.

 

[Anonymous]

my tv is a sony 46z5800 3sat, is it possible to have sky hd plus 3sat

or can you only have 1

 

[Andrew Everard]

If you have three feeds from the quad LNB, and you either have a Freesat tuner in the TV or a separate Freesat box, yes you can use both Sky+HD (which uses two feeds) and Freesat.

 

[Anonymous]

cheers andrew does this means as well of having sky HD+ i can also FEED 3SAT and get bbc Iplayer

 

[Andrew Everard]

I think so, yes...

 

[daveh75]

You'll also need an ethernet connection for BBC i player on Freesat.

 

[Anonymous]

engineer coming next week, let you no if it gets sorted