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You bought a YouView box to go with a YouView TV?
The Curry's salesman's eyes must have widened with delight when you came through the door 🙂
Let's try to untangle this mess.
Firstly, I take it that you have a Sky box you are getting this football on, and you have this set up to put the output on to the coaxial cable that leads, eventually, to the TV, and so you watch this on the analogue side of the Sony TV, which has been tuned to whatever channel the Sky box puts analogue out on?
Correct - the Sky HD box is in my fronbt room - and beside where by feed from the dish comes in. I have a coaxial feed from the Sky box RF1 coasxial output to every room in the house. My (poor) understanding is that the signal is amplied by a box in the loft (and blended with the terrestial signal - I think) from mwhich coaxial leads are taken to each room.
If so - or if that is what the salesman honestly thought you described - then he was quite right about the problem.
But he was so wrong about the solution that if he sold you the YouView box to be the solution here, then you have been very seriously mis-sold, and you should consider taking it back.
To be fair he did say that the use of the YouView box might improve things - the box packeting the coaxial signal and then suppling the better signal to the TV using an HDMI lead. That's what I've done - to no huge discernable improvement. He said just bring the box back if I didn't see any improvement - which I'll do if it is of no use to me if I replace my SOny with anotehr make.
Even the oldest Sky boxes have SCART output, and these Sonys have a SCART input, so this is the least you should do - use a SCART cable, instead of the coaxial link, between the Sky box and the TV. SCART still won't quite be 1080 HD, but it will be a hell of a lot better than coax, to say nothing of easier to access, as the Sky box can grab the TV automatically when you turn it on.
Really don't want to have another lead from front room to back room (where new TV will live). But if that is the only solution.
More recent Sky boxes have HDMI outputs, but IIRC, these may have dropped the coax output, so I don't think you have one of these. But worth a look round the back of the Sky box, to see if it does have HDMI, and if so, use this instead of SCART for even better results - this can do 1080 HD, as well as grab the TV when you turn the Sky box on.
Got one HDMI output - I use it to provide Sky feed to TV in front room.
Now to this YouView box; it will not get Sky programmes, only broadcast. You can get some Sky over the internet with BT (and possibly TT, though I am not sure), but if either BT or TalkTalk Is your internet provider, then they will (nearly) give you a YouView box.
I can get a not very good Sky feed in the new TV through Analogue Ch68 through the coaxial
Most of what else the YouView box can do, the YouView on the Sony TV can do, except, currently, to record.
So if you were set on recording stuff, and you didn't want to wait however long for this to appear as a feature on the Sony TV, and your ISP is neither BT nor TT, and you didn't agree to buy the YouView box to fix your smearing issue and/or you knew it could not get Sky programmes, then enjoy!
Not interested in recording in back room with new TV. My internet provider is Sky.
But if not, take it back and demand a refund, as you were mis-sold. In fact, unless the salesman told you how to fix the Sky issue with the addition of a simple cable, as well as selling you the YouView box, you were definitely mis-sold.
See above - Salesman said it might not improve things so take it back if it didn't
But if you go back, to return the YouView box or just to buy a cable for the Sky box to TV link, don't let them see you coming again. If you have one, take a techy friend, or a Rottweiler. Or both. Both are good when dealing with Currys.
But if you have to go on your own, you do not want a Monster cable, at a monster price, you just want the cheapest HDMI cable that is labelled High Speed. Or if you need to use a SCART, just a half-decent one from their Sandstrom range, or similar.
Don;t know how I can get a second HDMI feed from my Sky Box - would leave me with putting in a SCART feed - and that will do my wife's head in.
Do keep us posted about how you get on
Many thanks - I've answered best I can in line.
