Zgemma H7s Guide

Also have a Vu Solo2 and H7S and the H7S is better as its a 4K box . But if using on 28.2 as some programs are old recording and look bad. Same program with a recent date has a sharper image.

Also quality of HDMI cables can have a bearing on picture.

4K picture on 4K tv is good.

Newer boxes seem to get better as time goes by.

I recall there was a UHD demo channel - havent seen it of late though.

Quality of HDMI cables makes no difference to picture quality unless it’s bad enough to cause the picture to fail completely. Any half decent €10 Amazon basics cable or similar should work perfectly.

If an HDMI cable fails its with freezes, frame drops, pixellation or not working at all as some or all of the digital information transferred may get corrupted. It's not going to be a poorer picture as it may be with an analog cable, e.g. AV or coax. Like in a washed out picture with snow or interferences or so. Maybe this is where some of the argument/misunderstanding comes from.

So both statements are true sort of. HDMI is digital and therefore one might think it either works or it doesnt. But this statement is true for an individual data packet transferred not necessarily for the whole transmission.

So it's more like three states if you like. a) the transmission works faultless, b) the transmission works with faults (data packet drops) or c) it doesnt work at all. A 'droppy' transmission may still result in a picture/sound but it's going to be poorer.

Also poor cables might break more easily or might not take to bending etc. A decent cable will not break the bank no need to go for the cheapest possible.

Edit: Wikipedia explains this, look at the TMDS section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI. Video data is transferred in packets of 32 pixels secured with a checksum. Such a packet may get corrupted or else you wouldnt need a checksum.

I myself have put it to the test with picture quality and upgraded to a better one as i like a crisp sharp image on tv .

At that time there was not a good choice and wanted a 20ft hdmi cable and no loss of quality of Blu ray.

Sometimes i have found cables that come with boxes are not perfect and need upgrading.

I will say if tv is good and your not happy upgrade cable from your box.

That has fixed other peoples issue when i was told it wont , seeing is believing.

And given all the content on Freesat is 1080i at best, a bog standard HDMI 1.4 cable will be more than sufficient for the job with the HS7.

Heck, RGB connections would be enough for most of poverty SD shite on Saorview.

There's an interplay between autotimers and timers I think. For one thing timers are manually created recordings by you. But I think timers are also being created by autotimers. I think it's how autotimers work. They periodically scan the epg and create timers for you.

Check both autotimers and timers. I'm thinking the now deleted autotimer had already create next weeks timer before you deleted it and you ended in a conflict when you created the new autotimer that then created a timer around the same time of the existing timer.

If it cant be figured out easily by UI then ssh (or web terminal) into the box and check out autotimer.xml and timers.xml in /etc/enigma2. Chances are the conflict resolved itself by now but no harm in checking.

Thanks guys. Yes i think it was that i had input the auto timer a few times creating multiple timers thereby creating clashes. I've done a bit of cleaning up in the timer menu and after a reboot that seems to be sorted.

11082 H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK

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Where's that from? I'm on the lookout for any deals also.

Postage to Ireland seems to add about €17 to the €130, but looks like it will deliver no problem.

Would prefer to avoid adaptors if possible but...

Bear in mind that's the price without any HDD or SSD.

I got it for 159 euro delivered including 500 gig ssd from World Of Satellite at the £99 price.

It's gone up to £109 now.