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Jomtien wrote:
dakeb wrote:

think i'll buy a quality
scart to try to improve the picture.

The scart lead provided with the Sky box is of perfectly good quality.
To spend more is pointless.


This is true, a waste of money & time.

Blame Sky, not the manufacturer of the scart lead!

nige

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Jomtien wrote:
dakeb wrote:

just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel.

This is pretty much par for the course.

Football is a bad source to start with: lots of fast movement, fine
image contours and uniform colours.

Any SD sat source is going to look rather poor on a 42in screen at the
best of times.


Funnily enough, the BEST change from SD to HD is sport, it does look very good indeed. I find myself
watching cricket & I HATE cricket!!

Nige

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Stephen Chadfield wrote:
dakeb wrote:
just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky
box via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality,
especially football matches on any channel. Picture is fuzzy, blurry
patches, distance seems out of focus, almost like watching the screen
through slightly frosted glass at times - a bit like the quality of
streaming video on the pc. signal quality seems okay. not tried
analogue as I dont have an aerial set up.

is this picture quality normal for a 42" plasma hdtv when not run with an
hdtv source?

I have a non-HD widescreen CRT and football on ITV has been of noticably
****e quality on Sky Digital. I don't think this will come as news to
most readers here.

I counter the effects by drinking plenty of beer which is much more
effective than forking out for expensive SCART leads.


I like the cut of your jib!!!

Nige

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How close are you sitting ? I am VERY picky about picture quality, but my
Panasonic 42" is great until you sit less than about 8'- 10' from the screen
and then you start to notice all the imperfections. HD is exceptional but
even that starts to show the limitations of the screen if you get close.

Ainsley


"dakeb" wrote in message
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just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel. Picture is fuzzy, blurry patches,
distance seems out of focus, almost like watching the screen through
slightly frosted glass at times - a bit like the quality of streaming
video on the pc. signal quality seems okay. not tried analogue as I dont
have an aerial set up.

is this picture quality normal for a 42" plasma hdtv when not run with an
hdtv source?

"Tumbleweed" wrote in message
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"dakeb" wrote in message
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yeah its set up right. apparently the itv bitrates over sky are very low.
bbc and sky are low too but not as bad as itv. think i'll buy a quality
scart to try to improve the picture.


will that improve the bitrate then?

no but it might improve the losses between the box and the telly

"Nige" wrote in message
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Jomtien wrote:
dakeb wrote:

think i'll buy a quality
scart to try to improve the picture.

The scart lead provided with the Sky box is of perfectly good quality.
To spend more is pointless.


This is true, a waste of money & time.

Blame Sky, not the manufacturer of the scart lead!

why, they don't control the bitrate?

"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:47:01 GMT, "Dragon"

wrote:


"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:10:07 +0200, Jomtien wrote:

dakeb wrote:

just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky
box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel.

This is pretty much par for the course.

Football is a bad source to start with: lots of fast movement, fine
image contours and uniform colours.

Any SD sat source is going to look rather poor on a 42in screen at the
best of times.

I have been very pleased with how good the quality of the best SDTV is
on
my new
46" Samsung LCD HDTV. The BBC channels are especially good. I am
receiving
the
satellite signal on a DVB-S card in a PC connecting to the screen via
VGA.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

Also make sure your picture settings in sky are set at RGB not pal that
should improve the picture through a scart.

dave


Also make sure that you are connecting to the TV SCART that accepts RGB.
On many
TVs there is only one such socket.

good point I must prise the plasma off the wall and check!

"Ainsley" wrote in message
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How close are you sitting ? I am VERY picky about picture quality, but my
Panasonic 42" is great until you sit less than about 8'- 10' from the
screen and then you start to notice all the imperfections. HD is
exceptional but even that starts to show the limitations of the screen if
you get close.

Ainsley


I guess about 8 feet.

"dakeb" wrote in message
...
just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel. Picture is fuzzy, blurry patches,
distance seems out of focus, almost like watching the screen through
slightly frosted glass at times - a bit like the quality of streaming
video on the pc. signal quality seems okay. not tried analogue as I dont
have an aerial set up.

is this picture quality normal for a 42" plasma hdtv when not run with an
hdtv source?

Thus spaketh dakeb:
"Nige" wrote in message
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Jomtien wrote:
dakeb wrote:

think i'll buy a quality
scart to try to improve the picture.

The scart lead provided with the Sky box is of perfectly good
quality. To spend more is pointless.


This is true, a waste of money & time.

Blame Sky, not the manufacturer of the scart lead!

why, they don't control the bitrate?


Trouble is, many people have been Sky brainwashed into thinking Sky own the
satellites and control and broadcast all the channels on satellite.


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