ordered up sky hd on Saturday

got an email from sky and they say it will be 3 month to wait for instalation

why cant they just send me a box and ill conect it up myself

cos you probably dont have the HD cables from your dish!

cos you probably dont have the HD cables from your dish!

Which HD cables are those ????

They are normal ones except theres at least two of them for Sky plus.

My 'Freesat' dish is connected with a standard cable, as far as I know,

but my receiver is an HD box:)

i have a back garden like jodrel bank and have been building antennas of all shapes and sizes for over 25 years

i have a motorised dish with a quad lnb alll cabled up to my sky+ box so its just a quick changeover and a phonecall to sky to autherise the card

check out www.gm6nx.com for some of my work

i have a back garden like jodrel bank and have been building antennas of all shapes and sizes for over 25 years

i have a motorised dish with a quad lnb alll cabled up to my sky+ box so its just a quick changeover and a phonecall to sky to autherise the card

check out www.gm6nx.com for some of my work

They still won't let you do it. Iirc it's too do with the warranty. And the fact that they want too charge you of course :rolleyes:

cos you probably dont have the HD cables from your dish!

Do they seriously use that argument? That's just a blatent lie There's no such thing!

ordered up sky hd on Saturday

got an email from sky and they say it will be 3 month to wait for instalation

why cant they just send me a box and ill conect it up myself

That's just a standard Email. There's no way it'll take 3 months to install. I got the 3 month email and it was all set up in 3 weeks.

as said they won't let you buy a box at the discount rate then just post it out, we had + and went to HD and they had to come out and install it charging £30 for the privilage. the wait is normally for the box itself though i thought rather than the engineer.

Do they seriously use that argument? That's just a blatent lie There's no such thing!

i was always under the understanding that they had to change the cables from the dish!

what do they charge me £30 for then? to walk mud into my house?

i was always under the understanding that they had to change the cables from the dish!

what do they charge me £30 for then? to walk mud into my house?

If you only have one cable, they do need too install another for the sky plus feature. When they did mine they put two new ones so I got my moneys worth .........nearly

its not the install thats taking the time it is the hd boxes as they have had problems and have run various promo's and have run out back logged big time

We get HD on Thursday!! Yippee... just in time to watch Lost and 24... oh, b*gger...

lost, hero's and 24 have finished but you'll get to watch dexter in HD

Is there any chance they use different grade coaxial cable for the HD install? They used the cheapest, nastiest co-ax when our Sky+ was THROWN in.

I reinstalled my cables with decent grade foam dielectric co-ax for the FreesatHD and Sky+ and the signal quality and strength jumped a mile.

cables is cables.

cables is cables.

not when it comes to coaxial cables

the losses in coaxial at vhf and UHF is horrendous :eek:

Our cable goes right over the house, and is still at 80%

I'm hoping a re-route through the eves instead will gain a small margin and stop the banging on the titles - which is a PITA when you effectively sleep in the loft! (townhouse)

SkyHD ahoy!! Tis here in all its black and grey cased glory!

One thing thats annoying me though - my TV does a blue screen switchover thing between SD and HD every time I change between those types channels.

Actually, two things... is it right that Dolby doesn't appear to be available via the HDMI?

lost, hero's and 24 have finished but you'll get to watch dexter in HD

I haven't watched Heroes since the first episode! Dexter is good - got the new series to catch up with on the old Sky+ box first before I can watch it in HD action! Oo - and at least I'll be able to watch the 24 finale in HD - although the latest series hasn't been that great really. Tony bad... Tony good... Tony bad again... sigh.

SkyHD ahoy!! Tis here in all its black and grey cased glory!

One thing thats annoying me though - my TV does a blue screen switchover thing between SD and HD every time I change between those types channels.

Actually, two things... is it right that Dolby doesn't appear to be available via the HDMI?

I haven't watched Heroes since the first episode! Dexter is good - got the new series to catch up with on the old Sky+ box first before I can watch it in HD action! Oo - and at least I'll be able to watch the 24 finale in HD - although the latest series hasn't been that great really. Tony bad... Tony good... Tony bad again... sigh.

You're getting the blue screen between SD and HD cos your box's output resolution is set to auto in picture settings. Change it to 1080i and that will get rid of the problem.

Cheers

Dave.

You're getting the blue screen between SD and HD cos your box's output resolution is set to auto in picture settings. Change it to 1080i and that will get rid of the problem.

Cheers

Dave.

Seconded !!!!

The blue screen is your TV switching between HD and SD and not a fault of the sky HD box.

DD 5.1 is not available via HDMI, only via the optical output on the box. The reason being 90%+ of sky boxes are plugged straight into stereo TVs and not HDMI recievers. TVs dont have the hardware to downmix 5.1 to 2.0, so HDMI is limited to PCM stereo audio only.

Hopefully your TV has the ability to turn overscan off for HD broadcasts, otherwise you may not be getting the best possible picture.

whats overscan manny?

The edge of the picture.

For SD broadcasts its typically 5%, that means you lose 5% of the picture off the edge of the screen.

For HD broadcasts it needs to be 0% othewise you lose picture detail and resolution.

My panasonic full HD plasma has the facility to turn it off for HD broadcasts only, although you can also for SD broadcasts you see all the crap thats included in the broadcast stream which is why we have overscan in the first place.

interesting, i will look into this