Sky + upscaling and Onkyo 606

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Does anyone know whether it is possible to upscale my sky+ to 1080i via my Onkyo 606 ?

 

[Anonymous]

no it wont upscale only up convert to hdmi, but thats if you use s-video or compasit. only sky hd has a hdmi output but this is at 1080i any way.

 

[Anonymous]

there are very few connections on Sky + box, I am currently running a scart to my TV, so missing out the Onkyo. I thought that the Onkyo could upscale to 1080i, any signal it received.

 

[Anonymous]

the best way is to keep it withe the scart and change the video output to RGB that way you will get a better picture. the 875 upscales to 1080p from all sources but you would have to use a lesser connection so not realy getting any thing better. by all means send the audio from the sky+ box via optical but IMO just leave the onkyo out of it it may do more harm then good.

 

[professorhat]

Agree with our man sheepboy here. Wasn't Sky+, but I tried re-routing Freeview from my Topfield box to my Onkyo 905 via an S-Video connection. After the Onkyo had upscaled it, it looked just slightly worse than a direct connection from my Topfield to the TV via a direct RGB Scart connection (remember - with this connection the TV is upscaling it to the TV's native resolution). Unfortunately, upscaling can't work miracles and with a bad connection like S-Video (which is the best you can get from the Sky+ box to the Onkyo), you're not likely to see any improvements I'm afraid.

 

[Anonymous]

thats exactly as I have it set up, a scart from the sky box to the TV, using RGB. Its a 1080p tv. I thought I had the set up as good as I could, but thought I'd ask in case I was missing a trick.