I experience flicker on all on COM7. This occurs every few seconds and looks like when a traditional film ' jumps a sprocket '. There has been speculation that this is due to automatic switching between 1080i and 1080p - I locked my TV onto 1080i, rather than setting it to auto and this has cured the problem. However this problem was only ever experienced on COM7 - is someone experimenting on this only? My is .

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Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) Full Freeview transmitte
Sunday 29 May 2016 12:49PM

Hi

I tried all strength investigations before posting my question, although the flicker that I am experiencing led me to believe that it was not related to signal strength. COM 7 is running at 75% strength. This is a lower power one from ( around 90kw whereas the main multiplexes are 200kw ). Incidentally I experience no flicker on the other HD multiplex ( PSB 3 ) although the signal strength on this one is 100%!

The flicker doesn't involve freezing, pixilation or any of the commonly seen problems, which it why I described it as like a film jumping a sprocket every few seconds. Also, if it were a signal issue, I don't think that locking the TV onto 1080i would solve the problem as this is signal processing within the . This is beyond the receiver front end, which is ( I think ) what is affected by signal strength / issues.

I have seen reports that Freeview is experimenting with switching between 1080i and 1080p, depending on the programme format / type and therefore my question was posted to see whether this is happening on the lesser used HD multiplex.

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