Sky+ vs Terrestrial - Picture quality question....

johng_uk

Am I right in thinking that the Sky picture should be better than a bog standard aerial picture?

I just got a brand new 42" LCD and on the normal aerial the picture looks fantastic. On DVD's it's also brilliant (probably because I'm using an upscaling DVD player and HDMI connection lead).

However, the Sky+ box picture is grainy and horrible. My old Sky+ box went on the blink a few days back and the 1st reconditioned box I got to replace this had the well known low volume fault Hence I never tested the new TV on it. This 2nd box is connected via a scart lead which I used in my old TV without any such problems - Otherwise I would put it down to the lead.

Does anyone have any ideas? Am I wrong in assuming that the picture quality should be better? Are there any known problems with grainy picture's on reconditioned Sky+ boxes?

Thanks in advance.

donnajunkie

well sky digital pictures should be better than terrestrial analogue.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

Have you got the box set to output RGB and into a RGB enabled scart on the TV?

johng_uk

donnajunkie wrote: »

well sky digital pictures should be better than terrestrial analogue.

Exactly what I thought!

I might try mucking around with my TV settings and see if I can get a result. Although it's weird that it works fine for an analogue connection and not for my Sky!

Sput2001

donnajunkie wrote: »

well sky digital pictures should be better than terrestrial analogue.

But probably not as good as a strong freeview digital picture.

It shouldn't be "grainy and horrible" though.

donnajunkie

johng_uk wrote: »

Exactly what I thought!

I might try mucking around with my TV settings and see if I can get a result. Although it's weird that it works fine for an analogue connection and not for my Sky!

perhaps check all the connections and try a different cable.

johng_uk

Thanks all.

Nick's right - I forgot to mention that the TV has built in Freeview and would therefore be digital rather than analogue!

Also, I've mucked around with the TV factory settings and changed the Sky to utilise PAL rather than RGB.

Seems to have cleared it up!

Thanks guys.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

johng_uk wrote: »

Also, I've mucked around with the TV factory settings and changed the Sky to utilise PAL rather than RGB.

Strange, the best picture from a Sky+ box through scart should be with an RGB output.

johng_uk

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »

Strange, the best picture from a Sky+ box through scart should be with an RGB output.

I got that info from another thread on a different website tbh.

I've changed it back and it doesn't make too much difference. I think the main thing was to set my TV up differently from the manufacturer's settings!

donnajunkie

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »

Strange, the best picture from a Sky+ box through scart should be with an RGB output.

i dont know the logic behind it but when we have fiddled with our settings we seem to get a better picture when it is set to rgb. so that is what it has always been set to.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

On my TV, not all the scarts sockets are RGB.

I see quite a noticeable difference when I switch the output on my box.