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Poor picture quality on Sky SD channels Sky1 and Sky Living
TranceClubber
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Ever since Sky Atlantic/HD launched and the rebrand of Sky Living/HD/Sky Living Loves there has been a massive decrease in the picture quality on Sky1 SD do these channels now share the same transponder ?
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Sky reduces pictures on Living channels to 544 x 576
is sky sd better quality on virgin media?
soon HD will be free and you'll be paying 10.25 for 3d
At the weekend I watched my Sky+ recordings of Grays on Living.
Firstly the one from 2 weeks ago broadcast by LIVING followed by this weeks broadcast on Sky Living. It was like night and day. At one point I thought my box was playing up, or had a lose connection on the wire into my TV.
The LIVING ep was like watching HD compared to the Sky living Ep.
I won't pay sky the HD subs as I actually watch very few progs off their channels I mostly watch from the free to air HD channels.
This practice WILL NOT make me subscribe sky, if your reading this!
Exactly how I remember it too!
To think Sky brought down the picture quality on LIVING, LIVINGit, LIVING Loves and Challenge from such a high standard to mush like Sky1 is unforgivable. These channels were right up there amongst the best for SD quality on satellite before they came under the Sky brand; now they look crap - horribly soft and fuzzy thanks to Sky. I remember American dramas on LIVING used to look sharp and almost DVD-like before.
I completely agree.
Sooner or later more and more people are going to realise this. It doesn't take much to notice that the pictures on Sky1, Sky Living, Sky Atlantic, etc...are not what they should be. It's completely unacceptable for such a big broadcaster as Sky to continue to output their SD channels at this sub-standard level, especially when we're paying for them.
The SD PQ on Sky Living is atrocious as of 1 February on VM, and on Challenge too.
It's like looking at the TV with dirty glasses on!
Yes, and Virgin Media customers have got Sky to thank for that, since it's the same feed from satellite as what Sky customers are seeing. Sky took the ex-Virgin Media TV channels LIVING and Challenge off air for two hours during the early hours of 1st Feb; upon return, it was immediately obvious that the picture quality had dropped dramatically. Sky should of just let Red Bee continue to play out these channels; they clearly did a 'far' superior job. LIVING's picture until the rebrand to Sky Living made Sky1's picture look a joke in comparison.
If you don't have HD you would probably get a better picture quality from the US 350mb downloads than from the sky channels
It's like when SkyDigital first came in. I noticed the picture on analogue Sky going down the pan, too.
I unsubscribed from the single pack I had (£19/month??) a few months back. They kept saying they had to speak to me over the phone to sort it out, rather than by email, and I knew why - it was so they could sell me more crap at a reduced price. I said no. She said I'd never get that offer again. I said that was fine.
A couple of weeks ago, an offer came through the post... and into the bin.
I emailed them yesterday regarding this as I am unhappy.
Thier responce is
Dear ***********************,
Thank you for contacting Sky Help Centre.
Sky has not reduced the quality of standard definition channels. Every standard definition channel you receive within your package should be exactly the same quality.
To rectify these problems, please follow the procedure below:
Please note this process will stop all the recordings currently in progress and reboot your box, therefore you may want to do this after a recording has been completed.
Press services and highlight the Settings menu using the right arrow button and press select.
Press 0, 1 and select.
Highlight Sky+ Rebuild and press select.
When this warning message appears "this will take a few minutes to complete and will stop all recordings and reboot your Sky+", either press select to continue or press backup to cancel.
The on screen message, 'Housekeeping please wait' will appear and take up to 2 minutes to clear.
Once complete the set top box will switch itself off and then back on automatically and wait in standby mode. Wait for 2 minutes and 30 seconds after the red light has appeared before attempting to switch back on your box.
If after following this procedure you are still experiencing problems, you may need to contact our technical team direct for further assistance or alternatively respond to this email.
I even called uo and they got me to do a reboot of box.
Quality is still the same.
They don't have a clue about this or they do and trying to make us look silly.
Perhaps there should be a new Low Definition label for them, and a Medium Definition label for the lower resolution "Hi Def" channels.
So we have Sky 1 HD, BBC1 MD, BBC2 SD, Sky Living LD etc.
That's utter lies; the whole e-mail is a load of rubbish. We know for a fact that on the 1st February when LIVING changed to Sky Living, Sky reduced the resolutions on all of the Living channels and Challenge, down from 704/720 x 576 to 544 x 576. Fact!
With the exception of Sky News and Sports News (don't know about the Movies and Sports as I don't have them), all the Sky branded SD channels... Sky1, Sky Living, Sky Atlantic to name a few, look very soft and hazy with no definition to the pictures whatsoever, they're awful to watch. SD shouldn’t look this bad. :eek: :rolleyes:
Watching the 15th Season of the Simpsons on Sky1 here and it looks really poor even Channel 4 doesnt look this bad.
Never seen that before! :rolleyes:
ETA: Not that I approve of such practice.
Not if it's in 'SD'!
They might be deliberately making their SD channels look poor to make the HD channels look better in comparison.
[Conspiracy hat off]