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I've a new Samsung LE32R41BD plugged into my outside ariel with excellent Freeview pictures & the full widescreen perspectives, but through my TW Scientific Atlanta 4200DVB the picture breaks down with motion and, worse, is "squashed" on all the widescreen settings the TV offers -no widescreen at all on all cable channels, and the colours are almost day-glow.

TW tell me the STB is incompatible with a HD-ready TV and therefore I will not get a better picture until everyone's hooked up to HD and TW give out new STB's. Your telly's the problem, mate.

The best suggestion TW offered was to get decent (Philax Thor?) SCARTS.as I didn't want to pay a further £15 a month for a picture that I already had been getting before the last TW-enforced price-hike to upgrade to digital or loose Sky Sports (6 months ago)

I'd like to find out whether this is true, and are there 1000's of people like me out there buying new digital HD Tv's and getting then saddled with a duff access to premium channels? No technical fix in prospect, sir, said the very help-less man at TW.

Oh yes please, any technical advice would be a real help too, and very much appreciated!