Apple TV and Sky HD
Hi guys,
I was just wondering, is apple tv compatible with sky hd i.e. are you able to plug a sky HD cable in the back and watch hd tv through apple tv on your telebox?
AppleTV is not a satellite decoder or terrestrial digital decoder.
It's a 'media extender' that lets you play things you have in iTunes via your TV (for video this assumes a fairly strict compatibility with what AppleTv can play).
You could plug a Sky feed into any number of non-Sky satellite boxes to watch free to air channels. With a HD capable box you could watch any free HD feeds but having bought a Freesat HD box a few weeks ago just to get a bit of HD feed for my plasma I have to say that the BBC HD service which is all that's effectively available at present (unless you want a high def luxury shopping channel) is not up to much at only about 4 hours of content per day, most of which is of no interest to me.
What we really need in the UK is for the SD broadcasts to be transmitted at decent bitrates - the BBC HD feed is downconverted to view via SCART on my Humax box and the downconverted SD picture is vastly better than the SD broadcasts.
We are getting awful SD digital transmissions that are nowhere near the quality of the SD source material available.
AC
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