Got a box yesterday, and yes, all worked perfectly DESPITE the istructions, and Tony Sayers antenna recommendations and advice carried over seamlessly from analog to digital.....But shock horor! The picture is SHARPER ON ANALOGUE. Ok I thought, shopping channel is low bandwidth, so lets try Ch4.Nope. Still lower qualiy than analogue.What about beeb 1?Nope. Lower quality than analogue.And we are going to be forced to have this crap?I mean,VHF was miles better than AM. 625 UHF was miles better than 405 VHF.Why this downgrade?We have HDTV that will do better resolution than anything broadcats, why are we lowering teh broadcast standards?WHO do you write to, to complain..

The available video bandwidth *is* greater on Freeview. However, if thesource material isn't producing anything that can make use of it, then youcan't posssibly see it.If your picture is consistently 'sharper' on analogue, and you're feedingthe Freeview box into the set RGB, then your set is 'ringing' - it's setto peak up HF. May be called sharpness or similar. This control has noeffect on an RGB signal. Set it to normal and then do a comparison.If you're feeding the box via the aerial input, forget any possibleimprovement.

freeview is crap?

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The Natural Philosopher 21 years ago

I think it actually does that. The color gun controls were 'greyed out' when I selected the scart input

yes. Its a dvd player with vhs recorder as well.

ANYWAY very interesting tonight. Got pretty good quality on BBC4, then switched to BBC1 for 10 o clock news and it was beyond belief bad! really overcompressed. swapped between tv ONLY anlaogue and full digirtal, and teh digital was dreadful.

So it seems what I am seeing is very much a function of what is being transmitted on digital at the time. I guess they drop the bitrate for news.

I got slightly better channle 5 on digital than analogue this time. Weird.

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The Natural Philosopher 21 years ago

I don't use the VCR socket. TV goes to DVD/VHS input, which is marked 'satellite input' and output of DVD/VHS goes to TV.

It seems to record off SCART/RGB allright.

Its says it just pases the SCART signal through when its switched to 'standby'.

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