I have a Humax HD box into a TV HDMI, I also have a Sky+ HD box into a TV SCART (same TV). Switching between them there is precious little difference. OK, the SCART is marginally worse, both are obviously HD pictures. Then again, a good SD transmission often produces a better picture than a crap HD one. E.g, if you watch a M&S advert in good SD it's damn good.
HDMI has a lot of control. However what each connected device can do depends on the devices software.
For instance on mine the HDMI can control the TV, SKY, DVD. But it won't switch the TV and AMP to the SKY automatically while it will do so for the DVD. This is probably a bug in the SKY box.
Well, it exists in two states, on or off. When it's off, the picture quality is awful. ;-)
That's a fair enough point, just because it's an "HD" channel doesn't mean it's always broadcasting decent quality HD material. A lot of the time it's (sometimes quite badly) upscaled SD material.
At the other end of the scale, SkyNewsHD has obviously been uber-processed to prove a point...
Lee
From what I've read it seems to be a deliberate decision, as is the refusal to set the 3D flag.
An LCD one is, is it not?
They all are, photons are discrete.
I meant as opposed to CRTs, which in your pedantic opinion would self-digitize.
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