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Originally Posted by Scott
Funny, I find the GUI very easy to use and picture quality as good as a DVD. Strange that most people complain about NTL having a bad picture  |
Yes, that is a mystery, what with this being a cable discussion site and everything. Why I bet the only reason nobody comes here to complain about Sky's picture quality is because it's always perfect!
(For the record, NTL and Sky use 100% identical MPEG feels on about 90% of channels. If the boxes are both receiving the signal correctly, there will be absolutely no difference in the resultant picture. Some people have problems with signal levels on NTL (which they should call to get sorted); some people have problems when it rains, gusts or snows on Sky.)
Neither NTL nor Sky offer DVD quality, either. Both DVD and DTV use the same MPEG2 compression system, and DTV bitrates are much lower. That's just the fact of the matter.
Sky's EPG, whilst comprehensive, has one niggling problem. I have to use it in the first place. On NTL all I have to do is find the programme on the Now&Next bar (or whatever it's called now) and press
i. That's pretty much impossible to do on satellite, ever. And the buttons are the wrong way round on the Search and Scan bar. Use the left and right keys to scroll up and down a list? Sky's software people must have nodded off in UI Design 101.