In article <1ic1fkm.fa2638igeyykN%Spambox@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invali
d>, Alan Pemberton <Spambox@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid> scribeth
thus
>Mark Carver  wrote:
>
>> On Feb 8, 1:34 pm, "davidrobin...@postmaster.co.uk"
>> 
>> > HD offers some hope in terms of technical quality.
>> 
>> Only faint hope. I watched last weekend's rugby in HD on the BBC D-Sat
>> channel. The picture was good, but still fell well short of what you'd
>> get from domestic HD disc formats.
>
>The SD pictures looked very soft and lifeless, in comparison with
>similar live down-conversions such as the Proms. I found the 14L12
>France 2 pictures on 5W looked much cleaner 

What box were you using the receive that Alan?..

>(but they didn't have that
>overtweaked look that the French have a penchant for).

Perhaps they have the video equivalent of an Optimod;!...


-- 
Tony Sayer