[bwfc0907]

I'm thinking of a Panasonic TX26LXD500 HD TV, it will be for a 360 which it has no problems with and also a DVD, again no worries there.

My concern is a Sky+ feed I will have from the box which is in another room. Basically I'll only have an ariel going in to a magic eye on the Pani.

Don't want to waste my money so can you please advise what sort of picture I expect whilst watching football and movies through Sky+.

I really need your help

[Stephen Neal]

If you are feeding your Sky + box to your 500 via RF - it will be the worst possible quality you can get. It will have mono sound (no stereo via RF modulators in domestic gear as they have no NICAM encoders) It will be composite - so nasty luma/chroma interference. It will have soft colour. It will be noisy. It will be soft.

Compared to an RGB feed it will be significantly worse.

If you can borrow a video sender - you may find that you get better results - and stereo audio - by using one of these. Still composite - but the microwave modulation may be marginally better and less noisy. It might be worse...

[bwfc0907]

So what your saying is there is no point as a second set? Is there a reason why my Sky+ looks so good on a 14" CRT and would look so bad on a 26" LCD??

[Starburst]

Originally Posted by bwfc0907

So what your saying is there is no point as a second set? Is there a reason why my Sky+ looks so good on a 14" CRT and would look so bad on a 26" LCD??

A small CRT is far more forgiving or poor source material than a larger display and when that larger display is a LCD with a higher resolution then you can't upscale a poor source and expect it to do anything but look even worse.
Think of a 50kb 300*300 Jpeg and then resize it to 1000*1000, it'll look like s and the same principle applies to video.

You could get away with using the SKY+ s-video and RCA phono output to feed the Panna and ignore the ability to control the SKY+ or use the TVlink as well but just as a command carrier.