Incidentally, Sky HD channels viewed via SCART (576i) usually look a lot better than their SD counterparts, which just goes to show that PAL is actually capable of very good results (though not as good as native HD) when the theoretical bandwidth available to the PAL format is not compromised by MPEG compression. The Sky Sports channels are a good example.

There are exceptions to this as certain Sky HD channels show horrendous MPEG blocking.

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