Just got an HD satellite receiver. My TV has a DVI-D input but the box a
HDMI one so had to spend a fortune on a lead. And of course another for
audio. Connecting the analogue resulted in audio a lot lower than
everything else - despite the box output being on max - so I tried the
SPDIF, same thing.

How come makers agree on picture levels but not audio?

Also, anyone know a source of short HDMI-DVI leads? The only one I could
find is a metre long - 400mm would be more than enough. You can get ones
for Playstations of the correct length - but the DVI connections are wrong.

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Just got an HD satellite receiver. My TV has a DVI-D input but the box a
HDMI one so had to spend a fortune on a lead. And of course another for
audio. Connecting the analogue resulted in audio a lot lower than
everything else - despite the box output being on max - so I tried the
SPDIF, same thing.

How come makers agree on picture levels but not audio?

Also, anyone know a source of short HDMI-DVI leads? The only one I could
find is a metre long - 400mm would be more than enough. You can get ones
for Playstations of the correct length - but the DVI connections are
wrong.

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You can buy HDMI leads in Tesco. Perfectly OK and just as good as the ones
people sell for 10 times the price and claim they are 10 times as good.
The con artists moved to HDMI after people realised they were ripped off
buying SCART leads.

kcr wrote:
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Just got an HD satellite receiver. My TV has a DVI-D input but the box a
HDMI one so had to spend a fortune on a lead. And of course another for
audio. Connecting the analogue resulted in audio a lot lower than
everything else - despite the box output being on max - so I tried the
SPDIF, same thing.

How come makers agree on picture levels but not audio?

Also, anyone know a source of short HDMI-DVI leads? The only one I could
find is a metre long - 400mm would be more than enough. You can get ones
for Playstations of the correct length - but the DVI connections are
wrong.

--

You can buy HDMI leads in Tesco. Perfectly OK and just as good as the ones
people sell for 10 times the price and claim they are 10 times as good.
The con artists moved to HDMI after people realised they were ripped off
buying SCART leads.

http://www.farnell.co.uk
Sensibly priced and perfectly adequate for everyone except Glenn.

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kcr wrote:
Also, anyone know a source of short HDMI-DVI leads? The only one I
could find is a metre long - 400mm would be more than enough. You can
get ones for Playstations of the correct length - but the DVI
connections are wrong.

--

You can buy HDMI leads in Tesco.

I needed HDMI to DVI, though.

Perfectly OK and just as good as the ones
people sell for 10 times the price and claim they are 10 times as good.
The con artists moved to HDMI after people realised they were ripped off
buying SCART leads.

Quite likely.

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kcr wrote:

Also, anyone know a source of short HDMI-DVI leads? The
only one I could find is a metre long - 400mm would be
more than enough. You can get ones for Playstations of
the correct length - but the DVI connections are wrong.

--

You can buy HDMI leads in Tesco.

I needed HDMI to DVI, though.

HDMI - DVI plug adaptors are under $10 from Parts Express in the US. I
presume there is a comparable UK source.

What make/name HD satellite receiver?

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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Just got an HD satellite receiver. My TV has a DVI-D input but the box a
HDMI one so had to spend a fortune on a lead. And of course another for
audio. Connecting the analogue resulted in audio a lot lower than
everything else - despite the box output being on max - so I tried the
SPDIF, same thing.

How come makers agree on picture levels but not audio?

Also, anyone know a source of short HDMI-DVI leads? The only one I could
find is a metre long - 400mm would be more than enough. You can get ones
for Playstations of the correct length - but the DVI connections are
wrong.

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Arny Krueger wrote:
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In article ,
kcr wrote:

Also, anyone know a source of short HDMI-DVI leads? The
only one I could find is a metre long - 400mm would be
more than enough. You can get ones for Playstations of
the correct length - but the DVI connections are wrong.

--

You can buy HDMI leads in Tesco.

I needed HDMI to DVI, though.

HDMI - DVI plug adaptors are under $10 from Parts Express in the US. I
presume there is a comparable UK source.

Yes - they are available here too. But an untidy solution - as well as
introducing an extra connection. I usually make my own leads to exactly
the correct length - as the back of the TV is already a bad enough bird's
nest without having spare cable everywhere. But I've not investigated
making HDMI and DVI leads.

But I have found and ordered a 500mm HDMI to DVI-D from Farnell. Didn't
think to check them as I usually use CPC which has a similar stock.

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housetrained wrote:
What make/name HD satellite receiver?

http://planet.farnell.com/email/cpc/...june_13alp.htm

Of course it doesn't do Freesat - so no ITV HD. Although I'm told some
have fiddled other makes to get that. I wanted that one with the FreeView
tuner as my TV doesn't have one and I recently wanted to watch something
while recording two FreeView channels at the same time on my PVR. ;-)

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
How come makers agree on picture levels but not audio?

Just to add it's the usual digital thing. Other country's broadcasters are
peaking to 0DBFS which then matches the other sources - just not the UK
ones, etc, which peak to only -10. Not really any fix I can think of.

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I see by their blurb that you can get BBC AND ITV HD. My Fortec Star needed
a firmware update to get it. Maybe your one is waiting to be updated

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housetrained wrote:
What make/name HD satellite receiver?

http://planet.farnell.com/email/cpc/...june_13alp.htm

Of course it doesn't do Freesat - so no ITV HD. Although I'm told some
have fiddled other makes to get that. I wanted that one with the FreeView
tuner as my TV doesn't have one and I recently wanted to watch something
while recording two FreeView channels at the same time on my PVR. ;-)

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