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[krazydude]

Sly leaving BT Sports HD out of its new encryption roll-out shows its utter disregard for BT as a competitor.

Well it's good news for people using Skyboxes.

[nsw9154]

Lets hope that BT Sports get a few more packages next time and Stick it up Murdock

[lincsat]

Sly leaving BT Sports HD out of its new encryption roll-out shows its utter disregard for BT as a competitor.

Well it's good news for people using Skyboxes.

Maybe BT are buying the encryption direct from NDS rather than from Sky, they do handle their own subscriber management

[Saltire]

Well the end of an era, Its now probably easier to list what is actually left which is:

Film 4 HD
TCM HD
Sly 3D
BT Sport 1 HD
BT Sport 2 HD
ESPN HD
Sly News HD

all other premium channels have now Gone completely

I thought it would really annoy me only having SD etc, but it hasnt, sd is fine if you shrink the screen size somewhat, infact the quality of picture is pretty good on a small screen, I prefer to use my computer and just stream the box from the living room to the computer and then it is very simple to make the size of picture any size you want Plus I always know that if the worst comes to worse then I can simply stick a motorised dish up etc, happy days

[digicon]

A lot of users especially with HD receivers will see a marginal benefit if you use the Scart (RGB) output on your box instead of the HDMI and change settings to 576i output.

As we all know the HDMI output will always try and upscale the picture to your current HDMI settings.

Certainly worth a try for some of you and see if the SD picture improves

[ezeekaY]

A lot of users especially with HD receivers will see a marginal benefit if you use the Scart (RGB) output on your box instead of the HDMI and change settings to 576i output.

As we all know the HDMI output will always try and upscale the picture to your current HDMI settings.

Certainly worth a try for some of you and see if the SD picture improves

My SD is disastrous on my 32" Bush TV but if I do use scart I'll lose the BBC HD channels which isn't worth it?

Also my box setting is still 1080i 50hz

[fintannl]

Quite Correct i forgot about those 2

and thanks to karakoram for the spot on TCM HD, so the remaining HD channels are

Film 4 HD
Sly 3D
BT Sport 1 HD
BT Sport 2 HD
ESPN HD
Sly News HD
RTE Two HD

So as pointed out its a matter of what channels are left. And then its a matter of the best settings on a flat screen TV to show your SD up better. So thanks to digicon for that and if any folks have better suggestions feel free to suggest

[digicon]

My SD is disastrous on my 32" Bush TV but if I do use scart I'll lose the BBC HD channels which isn't worth it?

Also my box setting is still 1080i 50hz

could you not do a mixture of both leave the HDMI in for the remaining HD channels and then switch to scart when watching SD, Not ideal i know but could be worth a go

[gilvey]

You don't need to use scart as the RGB signal travels through the hdmi

[trance]

Lets hope that BT Sports get a few more packs next time and Stick it up Murdock

Amen to that...
funny how sly said champions league was not worth what bt paid for it.
Yet sly advertise the champions league like crazy.. bt only getting warmed up

sd channels have definitely been descaled/messed with...
The picture quality was way better 10-15 years ago on the old crt tv's . Now they are too damm grainy and pixelated. Sly the $#@!#/@; . How come the sd pic on freeview is way better?

[gilvey]

Change your tv setting on skybox to RGB from YUV that should cure it

[hkphooey]

Change your tv setting on skybox to RGB from YUV that should cure it

Mate any tips for better quality in settings for F5s box going through HDMI to improve picture though its on 22" HD samsung smart tv aint too bad but any help would be good.

[makster1978]

Sly leaving BT Sports HD out of its new encryption roll-out shows its utter disregard for BT as a competitor.

Well it's good news for people using Skyboxes.

so what you saying bt sports hd isn't going to vanish like the other hd?

[nsw9154]

so what you saying bt sports hd isn't going to vanish like the other hd?

Hopefully mate but no one really knows they ain't called sly for nothing

[shawy1970]

ive heard on the hd front.....

""Stage one complete and working, server recognizes new encryption and see's it as hd next stage is now to write the new codes in doscam fingers crossed one step closer""

anyone know of this??????