What's the best way of connecting a Sky+ box (not Sky HD) to a Sony 32" LCD (KDL32V2000)?

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I recently purchased a 32" Sony LCD TV and am disappointed with the picture quality, perhaps because I am using the old and cheap SCART cables I had from my previous TV. Particularly bad is some sport, often fast moving such as football or rugby which appears very pixellated.

I am hoping it's just the cables and wondered therefore what's the best type of connection to use, and whether I can expect the picture quality to be significantly improved.

I have the standard bumph under the telly (Sky+, DVD, Video, PS2) but no cinema sound or stereo system. Any help most appreciated.

Thanks

the_harlequeen

Answer 1

Having had a quick look at a typical Sky+ box review and specs for your Sony TV I can offer the following advice:

Pixilation is often caused by signal compression or loss of signal. Satellite power and bandwidth is a carefully managed commodity and the lions share is given over to the main channels; such as Sky 1, ITV, BBC and a smattering of others. What’s left is shared.

Unfortunately fast moving images, such as sport or action movies, hate compression as the technology has to compromise as it can only change so many of the pixels at one time, and this results in larger ‘squares’ or pixels of information.

Also, lower power results in a weaker signal that is more prone to bad weather or reception. This again results in the Sky+ box producing larger areas of ‘Squares’ as the image information starts to break up and can freeze for brief periods. Bit of a double whammy for the ‘secondary’ channels.

I guess this is what you are referring to and there is not much you can do about it. Although, if your Sky dish is out of alignment or obscured, or one of your cables are loose, it can make the situation worse. Check your satellite feed cables (should be screwed onto the connectors finger tightly), and that nothing is obscuring your dishes view (alignment should be left to professionals.) You can also check the signal strength through the setup screens of the SKY box; if it is about or better then half way, then all is as good as it is going to get.

If it is any benefit terrestrial Digital TV often even worse still!

As to the picture quality it should be pretty good. I have the standard Sky box wired up to a 42” Plasma and quite surprised by the picture quality. However, I learnt off my old Panasonic that there are 2 types of SCART specifications. One is Video (composite), and the other RGB.

From the specs for your TV it appears it only uses RGB (the better one), so you don’t have to worry about which you plug in to. But, it appears that the SKY+ box I saw the review for has both. Therefore, be careful that you have connected your Sky+ box’s RGB SCART output to your TV. The other Composite/Video one is not as important as VHS is pretty poor and won’t miss the increased quality!

Hope this was some help, sources below.

Ty.

Answer 2

however you have it is not an HD television. that's a call for of the international intense Definition standards that "HD" and "HD waiting" television instruments have HDMI ports. it is not conceivable to purchase any decrease priced converter for HDMI to RGB or the rest different than DVI (that's a working laptop or computer computer screen gadget). you need to have a television set with something called "element Video" inputs. those are 3 phono (RCA) sockets colored crimson, green and blue. The indicators carried through this technique are stable yet they are not HD and (regardless of the socket colorations) they are not RGB (crimson, green, Blue color indicators). they do no longer carry audio the two. you may get exceptionally stable photos through connecting the Sky container to the television utilising a SCART connector. this would carry genuine RGB indicators and stereo sound. even regardless of the indisputable fact that it in basic terms isn't intense Definition and could be not extra constructive than you will get from a popular Sky container.

Answer 3

Get some brand new SCART cables. Don't skimp on price, buy the gold plated ones. In addition make sure that the output from the Sky+ box is RGB and not PAL.

Answer 4

the best way to get more from your new TV and from your SKY+ box is by connecting them both by buying a GOLD PLATED SCART LEAD which is around £15 to £30.