On 29/12/2010 15:58, Paul Martin wrote:
In article ,
Walt Davidson wrote:
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:54:06 +0000, Bod
wrote:

For what it's worth, I have freeview and Freesat HD, the quality of SD
broadcasts off of the satellite is almost as good as HD quality.
The picture is that much sharper and clearer/better colours etc.

Thanks. That's reassuring to know. I already have a Technomate
satellite receiver and I have noticed that the quality of SD pictures
received on that is often better than the SD pictures received on the
Sky HD+ box.

Which is most odd, given that your Sky box and your Technomate are
using exactly the same datastreams off Astra 2 at 28.2°E (and 28.5°E
for Eurobird 1).

Not really as the data stream is compressed and the picture quality will
depend upon the quality of the decoder as well as the graphics engine,
this is before we start talking 'upscaling'