Listed on this page, are user manuals for Sky Digital (Standard Definition) receivers, Sky+ and Sky HD.
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Sky standard definition receivers, including Sky+ are no longer supplied by Sky, they can however still be purchased used and occasionally as new.
The current standard Sky receiver is Sky+ HD, this is the only receiver available for new subscribers.
The first generation of Sky+HD Digibox were produced by Thomson. Sky have since added Samsung, Pace and Amstrad as manufacturers.
The Thomson box has been discontinued and is no longer available as an A-grade/refurbished item due to its inclusion of YPbPr component video.
For connectivity with HD ready televisions, the box outputs via a HDMI connector (adapters to Digital Visual Interface are available). The receiver is High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) compliant.
Sky boxes manufactured prior to January 2008 also had analogue component connections (YPbPr), but as the HDCP copy protection cannot be applied to this type of output it is no longer included.
Traditional standard-definition (SD) connections are available via SCART and S-Video. All programming is currently output from both HDMI and SD connections, although individual broadcasters have the option to require HDCP (and therefore HDMI) in the future. The digibox also comes with a new slimline version of the Sky+ remote control.
All HD channels are broadcast in 1080i format (though the receiver can be set to scale this to 720p if the user wishes), using the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression standard, from Astra 2A, Astra 2B and Eurobird 1 satellites at 28.2°E and 28.5E in a the DVB transmission standard.
