V+ installed at 8.00 a.m. yesterday morning as promised, engineer on time , polite and helpful, everything I'ne always had in the past from their engineers.
2nd box installed in 10 mins other side of the house, just ran a third splitter off the first cable, dead simple, 10 mins organising the signal , HD up and running,
Watch the Torchwood sequence on the BBC hd channel to get the real effect of HD.
Chelsea match today was completely different with HD, the clarity was brilliant, curiously I sat down to watch the Man Utd match yesterday which was advertised as HD it wasnt showing on the HD channel.
The standard signals are upscaled as well through my HDMI cable so watching experiance is definatley enhanced. Even my wife commented on it and she can NEVER see any difference , never tunes a radio in properly ,
Not tried the VOD yet , may be Ill get the hiccups then , we wait to see.
Interestingly the engineer said that this area, Manchester, always gets a full and up and running box very quickly but he knows that some areas can take a long while.
He noticed that I already knew a bit about V+ and asked me if I needed to be run through verything, I said no, and he said that was great as by the end of the day he was always running out of time to explain things properly
He couldn't connect the 2 nd. set top at the time , my fault , and when I managed to get the tv connected I am not getting all the channels. I think I need to contact CS and get them to send a signal to start it working, correct me if I'm wrong anyone.
Worked out the copy to dvd recorder but dissapointed I cant record in HD. Hopefully this will come in the future. Connected by scart at the moment.
Would have struugled with this if it had not been for the forum ,having seen posts about getting sound only and no visual from others. Yes you only get them both when you actually start the transfer from V+ hard disc to dvd.
Overall , a happy experiance so far.
