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Old 08-05-2011, 15:51
yeslek
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I have had my Foxsat HDR for some time now and I have hardly used it except for recording because of the inferior quality of SD. Cannot seem to get a sharp picture when compared to Sky box. There don't seem to be many settings with which I can sharpen the picture.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Old 08-05-2011, 16:19
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I have had my Foxsat HDR for some time now and I have hardly used it except for recording because of the inferior quality of SD. Cannot seem to get a sharp picture when compared to Sky box. There don't seem to be many settings with which I can sharpen the picture.
Any help would be appreciated.
That suggests a box fault. I have Sky HD and the SD picture quality is about the same. In fact so it should be - in most cases the boxes are decoding the same data stream (tuned to the same signal in fact) so at first glance the output should be identical.

If there was a difference I would suspect the Sky box. Those are more likely to be built down to a price whereas the HDR has never seemed to be 'cheap'. I believe that the Amstrad Sky HD box is particularly criticised for it's SD output.

The best thing I can suggest though is to watch less SD
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Old 08-05-2011, 20:22
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Have you tried cycling though the Vformat settings (bottom of remote)
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Old 09-05-2011, 11:57
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I have both Sky+HD and a Foxsat HDR. The Sky box gives the impression of looking slightly sharper on SD, but actually it's "overcooked" and has slight overshoots on edges, which the HDR doesn't. This means from a distance the Sky box looks sharper, but closer viewing shows the overshoots, which I don't personally like. I prefer the more natural HDR "look".
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