[EtellaObtaite]

Hi guys.

Had my tv for a year or so now. Been using 360 through it which looks nice, but always been viewing television through an anologue aerial. Just the other day I got SKY+ in my room and thought the picture would be so much nicer. The thing im noticing now is the fact that im seeing alot of distortion around moving objects...It`s almost like the area around any objects looks very blocky and not at all clear. What the hell is this? it`s making my tv look awful. How can I get rid of it?

[Peabelilt]

Have you connected via HDMI? Also you will still get distortion unless it is a HDTV signal due to the nature of digital being low res and compressed.

Try watching HD Sky Movies or Sky Sports.

[LoisCampon]

Unfortunately thats the price you pay for having a nice modern tv with a shitty low res channel. I went from a Sony Wega crt to my Samsung 40" lcd and was horified at first to how bad the picture was. I upgraded cable to the Virgin+ box which also upscales standard def pictures and it looks a lot better now. I just wish the UK would hurry up wih more HD channels as BBC HD looks awesome.

[BrandandGeneric]

sky broadcast quality has always been pants...

its just that now you can really see it even more than before with new tellys

[nabsgood]

Virgin's V+ box has the best SD quality. And it has HDMI out...

[TineSeign]

It took a lot of messing around with the DRC settings to get Sky looking acceptable on my Bravia. It still looks pretty poor though as you just can't do much to hide the compression artifacts without blurring the image (i found a happy medium).

I would buy Sky HD tomorrow if they would pull their finger out and have more actual HD channels! I know they are starting to advertise some deals now but i still think it's a con for what you get.

[Averti$ingGuru]

Does Brittan have a deadline in which everything must be HD? In the US, every station must broadcast in HD by 2009 and the frequencies used by Standard television will be given to other devices.

[clubcughSheet]

Thats normal on some HD channels, they lower the cost by decreasing badnwidth used which generates this puzzling artifacts in fast moving pictures

I can clearly see the difference between lets say Discovery HD Theater, TNT HD and the premium HD channels ( HBO HD, SHOW HD...ect) and CW11 HD, some local HD channels, the artifacts is lot more on some local HD channels

[AdvertisingPo]

Does Brittan have a deadline in which everything must be HD? In the US, every station must broadcast in HD by 2009 and the frequencies used by Standard television will be given to other devices.

I don't think so. We do, however, have the analogue switch off coming in the next few years where all analogue terrestrial TV will be switched off and people will have to have digital TV, either terrestrial, satellite or cable. But 99% of digital channels are just SD.

(It's Britain BTW)

[lollypop]

I don't think so. We do, however, have the analogue switch off coming in the next few years where all analogue terrestrial TV will be switched off and people will have to have digital TV, either terrestrial, satellite or cable. But 99% of digital channels are just SD.

(It's Britain BTW)

Same here. Analogue TV channels are a dying breed, but there arent any HD only channels yet and there wont be in the near future. Some channels broadcast a movie in HD every now and then though.