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On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Rob Beard wrote:
Shaun Orchard wrote:Not had any problems with widescreen switching on any of my kit running via HDMI. I occasionally get the odd issue with HDMI handshaking though (I think it's more the HDMI switchbox I have).On 3 March 2010 13:56, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:So wondering if anyone knows of a HD FreeSat box that will down-scale tonormal TV - if this is possible and if this is actually worth it right now,or am I just barking? I've been browsing the freesat.co.uk site and do see some boxes with both HDMI and Scart sockets, but there's no mention of down-scaling...SCART is PAL or RGB SD, so yes, they all downscale. It is sometimes advised to use it instead of HDMI, because aspect ratio switching is not always automatic via HDMI like it is guaranteed to be on SCART (most people don't care - fattyvision is what they want anyway)TBH it's pretty pointless connecting a HD box to a HD TV via Scart, for starters you won't get HD!
I don't have an HD TV yet. I'm just wondering if it's worthwhile jumping on the bandwaggon - and to see if it might improve picture quality before I invest in wn HD TV. Right now I have a bog-standard bottom of the range sky box with no sky contract.
It sounds like I'm not really going to see any improvement though, so I'll save my money and wait.
But then - if everyone is lowering their bit-rate anyway it just makes a complete mockery of the whole HD thing and I don't watch DVDs offten enough to invest in the whole blurray thing either.
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