Hi all,
Recently had SkyHD installed, and I've a few questions regarding setup and use.
1) I live in an apartment with a communal dish of some sort. SkyHD has a very strong signal, and the box works well. However, I'm trying to set it up so I get Sky in other rooms.
I have the two Sky leads plugged into dish input 1 and dish input 2. Then, I have a cable going from RF-out 2 to the TV in the bedroom. I can now get Sky on that TV using a red-eye thing (on a manually-tuned analogue channel), but I get no signal for digital freeview. Where am I going wrong? Should I have a TV aerial plugged into the Sky's "aerial in" port? I'd like to be able to get all the freeview channels, and Sky on an analogue channel.
I've been into the hidden menu and RF-out power is enabled.
2) I have the SkyHD box connected to a Pioneer PDP-LX5090 plasma. The picture is ok, but when I watch 4:3 programmes, they are automatically stretched to full screen. Is there a way to change this behaviour? It doesn't happen on Freeview and I have the Plasma set to auto.
3) The subtitles service on my Sky box appears to be really, really bad. I've recorded a few movies and if they've got subtitles - which itself is a rareity - they're usually drastically out of sync. Or, there will be no subtitles for a minute or two, and then they'll race across the screen catching up.
I'm just used to watching films with subtitles on, and find it strange that Sky's subtitle service seems to be so bad. Is it just my box, or are subtitles usually hit or miss?
4) I recently got the new EPG (I'm on an Amstrad box), and the interface now feels really sluggish. Is there anyway to speed it up?
5) I've disabled Anytime, but a lot of hard drive space remains reserved for Sky - is there anyway to free some of this up?
6) If the answer to 5) is no, do you recommend upgrading the hard drive? I have a spare 1TB Samsung drive that I could use. Is this likely to be compatible with the Amstrad box?
That's it for now. I'll add more questions if I think of some, but it's really #1 I'm looking for help on.
Thanks in advance!
Recently had SkyHD installed, and I've a few questions regarding setup and use.
1) I live in an apartment with a communal dish of some sort. SkyHD has a very strong signal, and the box works well. However, I'm trying to set it up so I get Sky in other rooms.
I have the two Sky leads plugged into dish input 1 and dish input 2. Then, I have a cable going from RF-out 2 to the TV in the bedroom. I can now get Sky on that TV using a red-eye thing (on a manually-tuned analogue channel), but I get no signal for digital freeview. Where am I going wrong? Should I have a TV aerial plugged into the Sky's "aerial in" port? I'd like to be able to get all the freeview channels, and Sky on an analogue channel.
I've been into the hidden menu and RF-out power is enabled.
2) I have the SkyHD box connected to a Pioneer PDP-LX5090 plasma. The picture is ok, but when I watch 4:3 programmes, they are automatically stretched to full screen. Is there a way to change this behaviour? It doesn't happen on Freeview and I have the Plasma set to auto.
3) The subtitles service on my Sky box appears to be really, really bad. I've recorded a few movies and if they've got subtitles - which itself is a rareity - they're usually drastically out of sync. Or, there will be no subtitles for a minute or two, and then they'll race across the screen catching up.
I'm just used to watching films with subtitles on, and find it strange that Sky's subtitle service seems to be so bad. Is it just my box, or are subtitles usually hit or miss?
4) I recently got the new EPG (I'm on an Amstrad box), and the interface now feels really sluggish. Is there anyway to speed it up?
5) I've disabled Anytime, but a lot of hard drive space remains reserved for Sky - is there anyway to free some of this up?
6) If the answer to 5) is no, do you recommend upgrading the hard drive? I have a spare 1TB Samsung drive that I could use. Is this likely to be compatible with the Amstrad box?
That's it for now. I'll add more questions if I think of some, but it's really #1 I'm looking for help on.
Thanks in advance!