damo_in_sale
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As it says on the tin. Oh, and are SDI mods possible on freeview boxes?
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Damo
Cheers,
Damo
redpavlos said:However, in principle, going Sky+ HD should give a MUCH more dramatic improvement, without the need for a scaler.
damo_in_sale said:Yeah, I'm sceptical of this. I imagine SD stuff being deinterlaced by a 10 quid chip from Maplins!
redpavlos said:However, in principle, going Sky+ HD should give a MUCH more dramatic improvement, without the need for a scaler.
Nic Rhodes said:Sky HD are not going to transmit in 1080i then?
redpavlos said:Quite likely some channels in 720p, others in 1080i.
And yes, both are capable of delivering superb pictures.
The end result will be influenced by the bit-rate and the quality of the sources and film transfers, as well as what happens in the display.
damo_in_sale said:Most plasmas will only display a bobbed imaged of 540 lines for 1080i.
One of the potential benefits of the Sky+ box will be the HDMI output, but I think that advantage may be lost if in practice, people just output everything at 720p for example. The Sky box will then be de-interlacing not only 576i, but also 1080i, and that fills me with horror. As always, we pray for native digital video outputs.redpavlos said:Completely different story for true HD sources though, when using a good plasma.
ahin4114 said:I'd be surprised if any de-interlacing was done on board the sky box. I would imagine to reduce the cost of the box the signal will be decrypted and spat out in whatever format it was broadcast. Which can only be a good thing for anybody who's invested in a scaler.
As for the 1080i debate, it has already been said that the only stuff likely to be broadcast in 1080i will be the Artsworld, National Geographic stuff, which is likely to benefit from the added detail allowed by 1080i, slow moving and static images, in which case a very simple de-interlacer will probably suffice. Movies and sport, anything heavy in motion will more than likely be 720p, as it should be.
damo_in_sale said:I'd be surprised if they output 576i via HDMI.
Nic Rhodes said:In the installer training ppt for SSky HD, Sky tell installers to set the box to 1080i if the display is capable of 1080i AND 720p. There is no mention of SD interlaced from HDMI.
Nic Rhodes said:The installer are told to set 1080i when the display is capable of 1080i and 720p.
The installer are told to set 1080i when the display is capable of 1080i only.
The installer are told to set 720p when the display is capable of 720p only.
This will probably mean that the vast majority of screens will be receiving 1080i information as most HD Ready displays are 1080i and 720p aware .