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SKY HD on an EDTV plasma
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Hi , just read that sky hd are now taking pre orders.
I was hoping to order the system myself but i dont know
if it will be compatible with my EDTV so i hope someone here can confirm this for me.
Although my display is 852*480 my tv will accept an hd input of 720p (1280*720p) via the dvi slot however i am a little unsure if 1280*720 is the resolution that the sky box will output in.My dvi is hdcp compatible so i am persuming that i can just buy an hdmi to dvi lead or adapter ?
Also does anyone know if the non hd channels will be upscaled via sky hd therefore making the picture quality better than the standard sky digital.
p.s i have an xbox 360 running at 1280*720p and that works fine ,picture quality is amazing.
I was hoping to order the system myself but i dont know
if it will be compatible with my EDTV so i hope someone here can confirm this for me.
Although my display is 852*480 my tv will accept an hd input of 720p (1280*720p) via the dvi slot however i am a little unsure if 1280*720 is the resolution that the sky box will output in.My dvi is hdcp compatible so i am persuming that i can just buy an hdmi to dvi lead or adapter ?
Also does anyone know if the non hd channels will be upscaled via sky hd therefore making the picture quality better than the standard sky digital.
p.s i have an xbox 360 running at 1280*720p and that works fine ,picture quality is amazing.
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An HDMI to DVI adapter sounds fine, but you will of course need some audio leads too, as DVI does not feature an audio input.
just to recap ,was i correct in assuming that 1280*720 is the resolution that will be used by sky ? and do we know the hard drive size yet or as i asked before if the other channels will be upscaled?
I have searched the internet but cant seem to find an official announcement as to the above questions ?
cheers
A good example of this is the xbox game fifa 06 at the lowest resolution which is 640*480 is blury and suffers from ghosting (not extreme but noticeable) however when i up the res to 1280*720 the picture is massively improved and there is no ghosting whatsoever.
I understand that my tv will downscale to 480p but the higher the resolution of the input the better the picture is.
Obviously i would have loved a true high def tv but at the time i bought what i could afford.
While there should in theory be some quality step up driving a 480p display, I'd put the £10 a month towards a new HD TV.