Sky HD - £199

I am thinking of taking up Sky's limited offer of HD for £199.

If I record an HD program onto a DVD, will it downscale on a normal DVD
player or will it not play at all?
I would imagine it simply would not play at all, but just wanted to check
first.

"Beck" [email protected] wrote in message
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I am thinking of taking up Sky's limited offer of HD for £199.

If I record an HD program onto a DVD, will it downscale on a normal DVD
player or will it not play at all?
I would imagine it simply would not play at all, but just wanted to check
first.
The player downscales HD channels for output via RGB or S-video. Use a DVD
recorder which records RGB and you will make very good recordings that way.
Only the HDMI and component outputs are used for HD.

"John Russell" wrote in message
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"Beck" [email protected] wrote in message
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I am thinking of taking up Sky's limited offer of HD for £199.

If I record an HD program onto a DVD, will it downscale on a normal DVD
player or will it not play at all?
I would imagine it simply would not play at all, but just wanted to check
first.

The player downscales HD channels for output via RGB or S-video. Use a
DVD recorder which records RGB and you will make very good recordings that
way. Only the HDMI and component outputs are used for HD.

Oh thats a surprise, thanks alot John for the help.

"Beck" [email protected] wrote in message
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"John Russell" wrote in message
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"Beck" [email protected] wrote in message
anews.com...
I am thinking of taking up Sky's limited offer of HD for £199.

If I record an HD program onto a DVD, will it downscale on a normal DVD
player or will it not play at all?
I would imagine it simply would not play at all, but just wanted to
check first.

The player downscales HD channels for output via RGB or S-video. Use a
DVD recorder which records RGB and you will make very good recordings
that way. Only the HDMI and component outputs are used for HD.

Oh thats a surprise, thanks alot John for the help.

Remember that most channels are still only SD. You do get the impression
that some people think the HD box can magically make all channels HD. It can
scale up SD to HD and that may be better than letting your HD TV scale them.
Nothing is absolute though, you may prefer your HD TV doing the SD scaling,
or the HD Box.

"John Russell" wrote in message
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Remember that most channels are still only SD. You do get the impression
that some people think the HD box can magically make all channels HD. It
can scale up SD to HD and that may be better than letting your HD TV scale
them. Nothing is absolute though, you may prefer your HD TV doing the SD
scaling, or the HD Box.

Yeah I know that only the special HD channels will be HD and the rest normal
TV. Although if it does some upscaling it would be nice if it attempts to
get rid of some of the pixelation on some channels. Thats probably just a
dream though :-)

To be honest, HD has been furthest from my mind. It started out as
originally wanting to upgrade my freesat to the same package as my
multiroom, then I thought I would like Sky+ in my room and now I have ended
up going the HD route, I figured that if I was going for Sky+ anyway, I
might aswell go the whole hog.