Scart Or Hdmi

iamconfused_2

Hi, I purchased one of the Hannspree 37 in TVs and am pleased with it but picture is not brilliant. I have SKY + and a DVD player and it is connected with 2 Scart leads.
I have read through a lot of the threads and some people say get gold plated scart leads and some say HDMI cables, this may be stupid but I dont really understand whats what. Should I buy some gold plated Scart leads to improve picture or do you replace Scart altogether whith HDMI cables.
Thanks everyone

Matt_Nixon

If your DVD Player has an HDMI socket then an HDMI cable will give you a better picture, a standard Sky + box doesn't have an HDMI socket so a screened quality scart cable will stop any interferance.

Always use HDMI -> HDMI if you can.

superscaper

Good quality scart can make a difference but it can only transmit standard definition. If you want high definition then you need HDMI cables. I don't know whether your sky+ will have a HDMI socket but how new is your DVD player? Only the very recent ones with HD upscaling have HDMI sockets in which case you'll have to use a scart with that.

donnajunkie

unless your sky box is a sky hd box you wont be able to use a hdmi cable with it. as far as the dvd player goes, well if it does hd upscaling and your tv has a hdmi slot then you can use a hdmi cable for that. if your picture is particularly poor then it wont have anything to do with the cables you currently use unless they have a fault.

mattmoo_2

It depends who you speak to as believe it or not some prefer scart but HDMI is made for high definition output.

I have a V+ box and instantly noticed the difference when i plugged in the HDMI cable and turned on the hidef setttings.

So my advice is HDMI all the way

matt

donnajunkie

i dont notice any difference with our dvd player that does hd upscaling. hdmi cables dont do automatic adjust depending on whether the picture is 4:3 or 16:9 so we have to adjust it manually. it doesnt really matter with the dvd player but if we had sky hd i am sure we would get annoyed with it.

OK_Sauce

Have you set both your Sky Box and DVD player to RGB out and enabled them both on your TV. Try this first.

iamconfused_2

thanks everyone, so looks like HDMI not an option as DVD is quite old. will try the RGB out thing if I can see how to do it, picture is not bad just doesnt seem very sharp and if a person moves quickly they leave themselves behind!

superscaper

iamconfused wrote: »

and if a person moves quickly they leave themselves behind!

Felt like that myself today (migraine). :rolleyes:

missile

You might want to look at the manual re picture settings for the TV. Never seen Hannspree, but I would suggest ANY new TV ought to give you a decent picture.

You might want to try a process of elimination. How is the picture quality on digital TV? Is the picture OK when playing a DVD? Connect Sky box direct to TV, is the picture OK?

Happychappy

I bought a Sony BRavia 40" which was supposed to be the dogs doodars, but when I connected it up to the Sky+ and my non hdmi DVD recorder, it was no better then my Napolionic 22" crt?

I too posted for advice and had the same replies, I therefore went for the gold scart leads which really did make a lot of difference, but still nothing to rave about, I just felt the LCD TV was more for the square eyed children glued to their XYZ whatever boxes and their games ?