Well the "Early Adoptors" are realy taking a hammering on the HD sat boxes!
I know of no reason why they should cost so much more than a standard box, a few extra chips and an HDMI socket can't justify more that a hundred pounds more than an SD box - at this price I'd have expected a 40gb disk!
Well the "Early Adoptors" are realy taking a hammering on the HD sat boxes!
I know of no reason why they should cost so much more than a standard box, a few extra chips and an HDMI socket can't justify more that a hundred pounds more than an SD box - at this price I'd have expected a 40gb disk!
I don't know whether "a few extra chips" is all that's required for HD, but the Sky+ HD PVR is around £300, I believe, and most speculation on the price of the forthcoming Humax Freesat HD PVR is around £250-300. I suspect a few extra chips is not, in fact, enough. HD supposedly carries 5 times as much data as SD, so logically, all the internal data channels would have to have that capacity. Also, of course, early examples of any new technology have to carry the development costs. (Edit: and a 40GB disk would be next-to-useless for HD!)
As sky is pushing out the same signal of 1080i, i was wondering if you have compared the two providers picture quality ? and now the Hi Def programs have 5.1 surround sound output - how does that compare to sky ???
This is probably the 1000 dollar question ?? is free sat HD as good as sky HD ?????on quality!!!!
As sky is pushing out the same signal of 1080i, i was wondering if you have compared the two providers picture quality ? and now the Hi Def programs have 5.1 surround sound output - how does that compare to sky ???
This is probably the 1000 dollar question ?? is free sat HD as good as sky HD ?????on quality!!!!
Apart from ITV HD which is exclusive to Freesat in the short term, and the fact that Sky carries many channels that Freesat doesn't, Freesat and Sky channels are the same -- not just the same content and spec, but BBC HD, for instance, on Sky and on Freesat, is just one signal coming through one transponder on one satellite. The FTA channels are not "owned" by either Sky or Freesat, just packaged by them.
Hi all a newbie here, just thought I would share my experience this weekend.Well I took the plunge Saturday, as the Humax was out of stock still I went for the Goodman’s GFSAT200H, we had to go out Saturday night so I didn’t have time to set it up till Sunday afternoon, it’s a nice looking black box about half the width of a DVD player/BT vision box, plugged it in, turned it on and put my postcode in, and off it went finding channels, 83 channels altogether including radio, as I had the BT vision box still plugged in to the other hdmi socket I thought I would do a comparison so off to ITV1 on both boxes it was, as this channel is normally pretty poor for me, I must say that the picture on the Goodman’s GFSAT200H was so much better than the BT Vision, and my built in free view on the TV, I mean really better, great, ok now off to the BBC HD channel, during the day they have a preview, and all I can say is wow, wow, oh my goodness wow, that’s how good the quality is, I’m running all the kit through a Warfedale 37" 1080p screen, and it looked stunning, later that evening, I thought I would see if I could manually tune to get all the other extra channels I know you can get on the Humax, alas, there is no option to do this, very disappointing, I started watching the HD channel again, and then the sound went, ok no probs I will just turn it off, and see what happens, turned it back on and still no sound, so I gave up and not very happily trundles off to bed, got up this morning, only to find no sound still, so ended up back at Argos in the pouring rain, I explained the situation, and they credited my card back with the full amount as they still don’t have any Humax boxes, I was just probably unlucky, and like I said the SD picture is very good and the HD is stunning, still at least I had a look, and now I will just wait till the Humax comes back in.
I already have a Humax PVR9200T will this work with the FoXsat-HD box or is it better to wait for the forthcoming Humax Freesat HD PVR????
The 9200 doesn't record from scart (like most pvrs, I believe), so you'll need to wait, I'm afraid. On the other hand, the new Humax pvr will record HD, which the 9200 wouldn't, even if it did record from scart.
Purchased the Goodmans GFSAT 200 HD if you have sat dish already set up for sky, just plug in - download - and sit back and enjoy Hi def picture and 5.1 surround sound in less than 30 minutes,
Sadly only BBC HD at the moment, thought ITV would be transmitting by now?
Box very small almost invisible on shelf - nice little package of channels if you dont want to pay Sky/Virgin for progs that are free ?
RE: Goodmans sound cut out problem, this happened to me - found that sat dish was not receiving strong enough signal to change channel completely with sound, on rebooting receiver sound OK, have realigned sat dish and no problems since.
ahhh that makes sense, i now have the humax foxsat, and i am very pleased with it. signal and quality are both on 100%, i noticed on the Goodmans they where both on 85%.
on quality!!!!
