All posts by Neil Bell
Below are all of Neil Bell's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Helen There are some restrictions on copying HD programmes to Blu Ray discs - see page 58 of your instruction manual - but there aren't normally any restrictions on recording HD programmes to your hard drive (HDD) in the first place. I have 2 similar Panasonic recorders - 1 terrestrial, 1 sat and I record HD programmes frequently. Sometimes programmes recorded on ITV are limited to burning 1 copy to Blu Ray disc. Neil
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JD Richards/David I'm puzzled. I don't use my Fortec Star Passion + HD much these days but I checked just now and I still have BBC News on 10818 V 22000 and BBC Alba on 10803 H 22000. I can also get BBC World on 19.2 11597 V 22000 and on Hotbird 13.0 12597 V 27500. Mind you we don't have too many hills in London! (sorry!) Neil
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Jenny Sky broadcasts via satellites that are 23,000 miles above the equator so you dont get localised reception problems in particular towns. However there must be a clear path between the satellite and your dish and the dish must be aligned precisely. If e.g. there is a tree in the way then that can cause intermittent problems as can a loose mounted dish especially if its windy.
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Pete I know little about Sky but I watch free to air channels & notice that all the channels you can receive are vertically polarised and all that you can't are horizontaly polarised so maybe you have a faulty LNB which is not switching polarity as it should. Try waiting till someone who knows more about Sky can confirm the meaning of "36" but other than that replace the LNB. You may need to measure the diameter of the collar that fits round the LNB to make sure you get the right size but you can get them on fleabay for less than a fiver. Neil
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Frances Henry I had a quick look at Page 83 of the instruction manual on the Panasonic website and I can't see Acoustic Solutions mentioned so maybe it doesn't support that make of TV & you won't be able to use the remote to control the TV
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Barry Martin You say that the "signal" is at 97% but what about the quality reading and what figures do you get at home? I was surprised by the difference in reception between my Panasonic free to air receiver which produces better pictures than my old Fortec Star HD receivers on the same dish/LNB. Conversely when I tried a cheap 15 metre HDMI lead it was the Fortec Stars that worked better. My point being that no two receivers are the same and maybe the Sky boxes have more sensitive tuners to enable them to cope with smaller or poorly aligned dishes?
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Norrie I'd go with Dave first. A short aerial lead is all you need to daisy chain and then you can see if it works with the PVR switched on and watching an HD channel on the TV at the same time. If everything works problem solved. If not then a simple splitter may well not work either and you may need an amplifier as well. In the days before analogue switch off I found that a daisy chained DVD recorder and HD ready TV worked fine on a single output from my aerial amplifier but when I bought a TV with an HD tuner I had to run a separate cable for the TV to be able to watch HD progs on the TV at the same time as the DVD recorder was switched on. Of course the digital signal is now stronger so you may well find daisy chaining works.
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Linda Vanderstreaten In addition to JB38's advice you may also need to set something on your TV to tell it to output from one of the AV SCART sockets. I know I have done this on my Sony KDL32EX503 TV but I'm not at home at the moment and the TV has a stupid cut down instruction manual - you have to click on "I manual" on the remote to read the instructions on the screen - & I can't remember the details! Its not very practical in use because you have to have the TV switched on on the channel you want to record for it to work
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Lisa I think your TV is switching to the input from the DVD recorder automatically when you plug the SCART cable in. You need to switch the TV back to "TV" whilst leaving the DVD recorder switched on then follow JB38's advice.
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Thursday 1 November 2012 12:35AM
H Nichol A further thought maybe your Technomate receiver thinks it is connected to 19.2° East but its actually scanning 28.2° East? On my old Fortec Star I have 522 FTA channels on 28.2° East a lot of which dont work so your 389 English channels could be about right. Try fitting a DISEQC switch available on fleabay for less than a fiver. Connect 1 LNB to input LNB1 and the other to LNB2 & use one of the existing down cables to connect the output on the DISEQC switch to your receiver. Retune the Technomate receiver as per page 4 of the instructions and see if that works. If you want to get the other receiver working as well youd need Twin LNBs and a second DISEQC switch. Regards Neil