Quote Originally Posted by bornatbirth View Post
with any new tv you need to update the firmware and make sure the signal source is an upscaler to 1080i like sky hd or a humax freesat box and it will be a big improvement over anything else like the built in tuner or standard sky box.

i cant see the point in watching philipino tv on a 1080i,as i never seen a decent picture on any tv
I tend to agree the only point would be in watching blue ray DVD's or as you say upscaled ordinary DVD's.

I wanted to get Digital SkyCable at our place in Las Pinas the other year, I was willing to pay a full year's subscription up front but they refused because no one else in the subdivision had SkyCable already.

We ended up with analogue Las Pinas Cable which is pretty variable quality and a limited range of channels, it is a third of the price of SkyCable at less than 500 peso a month so that is a good thing given the change in our personal circumstances this year but it would have been nice to have digital TV over there. :(

About a week after SkyCable refused us and Las Pinas cable had gone ahead and installed, someone with a half a brain at SkyCable called back and almost begged us to let them install, they had finally figured out that expanding their network into a new subdivision is a good thing and not as most people in customer services departments in Philippine companies seem to think just an expense

Ah well same applies to PLDT, getting a land line is ridiculous bureaucratic mess and we had already had an account with them for over 2 years at a different address !


Jim