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<blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 939680" data-attributes="member: 176256"><p>If you're getting pixelation like in the example then it's nothing to do with the scart lead. Something has happened to your satellite signal.</p><p></p><p>There's been a lot of bad weather in the UK recently (from what I've seen on the TV - I'm quite warm ATM), is it possible that the dish has been moved by a strong gust of wind? Maybe rain has found its way into the downlead from the LNB. Could some vegetation have grown to obscure part of the dish? Has a bird (or spider) made a nest somewhere on the dish? It could be anywhere between the dish and the satellite receiver that the problem lies. As an outside chance, the receiver itself might have developed a problem.</p><p></p><p>An HDMI lead will deliver the picture and sound to your TV digitally so there will be no degradation between the receiver and the TV. I can't give you percentages, it's better. The picture is less "smeared" and there will be no fringing around strong colour or tone contrasts. You'll see the effect best when looking at words or numbers on captions. The edges are crisply delineated.</p><p></p><p>The coloured sockets are probably phono sockets. There will be two for audio (red and black or white) and the others for video. The yellow will be composite video which is poor quality, potentially worse than the scart if the receiver is set up for RGB. The red, green and blue will be for RGB (same as scart in best mode) and possibly switchable to component.</p><p></p><p>Component and RGB are similar in that the video is split up so that they do not interfere with each other but component can also take higher definition video similar to HDMI. HDMI is digital though, all the other modes are analogue and that involves the digital signal being converted to analogue in the receiver and then converted back to digital in the TV. Your existing receiver is highly unlikely to be able to output anything better than scart or composite.</p><p></p><p>BTW, what model of Humax are you using? If it's quite an old one it just may have reached the end of its life and be the problem after all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PaulR, post: 939680, member: 176256"] If you're getting pixelation like in the example then it's nothing to do with the scart lead. Something has happened to your satellite signal. There's been a lot of bad weather in the UK recently (from what I've seen on the TV - I'm quite warm ATM), is it possible that the dish has been moved by a strong gust of wind? Maybe rain has found its way into the downlead from the LNB. Could some vegetation have grown to obscure part of the dish? Has a bird (or spider) made a nest somewhere on the dish? It could be anywhere between the dish and the satellite receiver that the problem lies. As an outside chance, the receiver itself might have developed a problem. An HDMI lead will deliver the picture and sound to your TV digitally so there will be no degradation between the receiver and the TV. I can't give you percentages, it's better. The picture is less "smeared" and there will be no fringing around strong colour or tone contrasts. You'll see the effect best when looking at words or numbers on captions. The edges are crisply delineated. The coloured sockets are probably phono sockets. There will be two for audio (red and black or white) and the others for video. The yellow will be composite video which is poor quality, potentially worse than the scart if the receiver is set up for RGB. The red, green and blue will be for RGB (same as scart in best mode) and possibly switchable to component. Component and RGB are similar in that the video is split up so that they do not interfere with each other but component can also take higher definition video similar to HDMI. HDMI is digital though, all the other modes are analogue and that involves the digital signal being converted to analogue in the receiver and then converted back to digital in the TV. Your existing receiver is highly unlikely to be able to output anything better than scart or composite. BTW, what model of Humax are you using? If it's quite an old one it just may have reached the end of its life and be the problem after all. [/QUOTE]
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