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Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV For the last six years, I have answered many thousands of personal emails that you have sent to UK Free TV.
Sadly, I am unable to offer this personal service at the moment.
Until I can restore this service, please can you leave any questions you have on an appropriate page, where they will be answered as soon as possible, or below, if you can't figure out where to ask.
I look forward to your questions!
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Thursday, 24 October 2013
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Ian from notts8:26 AM
Matlock
johnp- If the dish is working ok, A standard "Eurobox" satellite receiver will pick up all available signals using a "Blind Search".
If Freesat signals are reaching your area you will need to pick "Astra2/ 28.2" satellite to scan for them.
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Ian from notts8:35 AM
Nottingham
Beryl Ash- Your TV has probabley picked up "Belmont" or "Emley Moor" during an update?
Most Panasonic TV's have a "Region Select" in their menu's, but this can be awkward to find?
You need to do a "Manual Scan" on "Waltham" using number 49 and "Nottingham" on 27.
take note of which of these signals are stronger?
Your postcode would be useful
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Steve P1:02 PM
iannotts I think johnp is asking about terrestial TV.
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thomas mckay9:22 PM
i have a secon d tv in bedroom for which i watch the same channels as downstairs,can i fix a cable from the second tv to another tv in another berdroom
yours
mr mckay
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Friday, 25 October 2013
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Steve P12:08 AM
Tommckk -probably; though you don't make it over-clear what you have or plan
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Ian from notts8:14 AM
Nottingham
Thomas McKay- To do it properly you need to run a 2nd cable from the Skybox and use a 2 set distributer.
There are other ways but this is the simplest
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8:31 PM
8:31 PM
Thomas
You need to use a coaxial splitter, that has 1 input and 2 or more outputs. The input is fed from the source, you aerial if you are using Freeview and all TVs have built in Freeview reception or the output from you Set Top Box (which could be Freeview, Freesat or Sky) if that is what you use. The outputs should be connected separately to each TV that you want to use.
Be careful not to amplify the signal too much if your current reception is OK, the best splitters are powered to overcome inherent losses but the amplification can cause the signal to be too strong and result in loss of programmes, etc. But if your signal is already very strong, you may (?) get away with an unpowered splitter - but they rarely come in more than 2-way splits. And a cable must be plugged into every outlet and feed into a TV set else it will not work properly (impedance matching demands that).
You don't give either a location post code nor details of the equipment you have so it is difficult to be more specific.
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Grahame neagus8:44 PM
Haven't even had sky for a week and missing most programmes due to lack of signal......wish we had stayed with plus net!!!!
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Molly Porter8:54 PM
Recently my Freeview service has frequently failed to deliver subtitles on programmes I'm watching or taping on Channel 4 (also 13, which is 4+1). I'm hard of hearing, so dependent on subtitles. As this has never happened before I'm stymied about what if anything can be done about it. The failure is not with the broadcaster.
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Saturday, 26 October 2013
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Debs10:28 AM
Hi, my brother has recently moved to northeast Italy and would like to receive some UK channels.
The apartment has a dish on the roof, although I am not sure which way it is pointing, and a cable for satellite coming from it into the apartment.
Would a UK freesat box possibly work for our standard channels like BBC / ITV etc.?
Any help would be appreciated.
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