All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Jeanette: The question has been asked before, and the answer is no. Best suggestion is to check what connections are available (dish, aerial, cable), and perhaps work out the the most cost effective answer from there.
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Kev: MikeP is correct - get a TV from a decent brand (the big 4) and they should all have Freeview HD as standard (although at least the ones that dont will now have to say!), and both LG and Sony should have at least one generic sat. tuner in the back. Many higher level 4K Samsung sets will have Freesat, as will the occasional Panasonic. Get the right size for the room (one size up from your current isn't a bad rule of thumb), and get the best panel you can for your money. Basically, the more it costs, the better the blacks and the movement is. As a guide, a decent 40-43in 2D set with 3 HDMI's, smart and Freeview HD should be roughly 350.
There are no longer TV's with hard drives for recording built in, and there were very few in the first place. However, pretty much all TV's can record to a USB stick or hard drive. However, since the bulk of them only have one tuner, you can't watch something else while recording a channel. Its much better to buy a PVR, with Miksey's suggestion being an excellent one - as long as you've got Sky plus, etc, its a straight swap.
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Sam: Check your signal strength - HD is more likely to break up because the signal is too high or too low. If too high, get an attentuator, and if too low, check your system.
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GD: look at your signal path - your 28km from the transmitter, with a clear line of sight. If your signal is rubbish, what about your neighbours? If their's is fine, then it sounds like your system, although wouldn't the specialist have checked it?
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Sam: Could be lots of reasons. If you've got a dodgy system, (perhaps moisture has got in), when it rains, the signal is rubbish, but when thats dried out, its OK. Or it could be that your signal is too strong, but most of the time just enough so you dont notice. But when it changes slightly (and its does - mine certainly wanders around a bit), it just tops out, and then you have a problem. And dont forget that old favourite - the aerial lead coming a bit loose.
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MikeC: Whats the model of your TV? I assume that the sat. box has twin tuners, but when your using the TV, are you using a sat. tuner for recording, while watching via a Freeview tuner, or does its have twon sat. tuners?
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mikesey: Two PVR's makes sense! High level sets like the Samsung 8 series, the Sony 9, etc have had twin sat. tuners built in for the past couple of years, but its so much easier just to use a PVR - thats what they are there for.
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David Talks: Check what transmitter its trying to record from. My Sony PVR used to do something similar - the tuner is really sensitive and it would pull in BBC1 (which is what we were trying to record), but from a transmitter far further away. The strength was just enough to fool the PVR to try to record, but not enough to actually record something. I finally worked out the problem, and I killed the signal stength a bit with an attentuator, and after a couple of attempts, it stopped. I think David Lindsay had a similar problem with his Sony PVR.
So check the signal strength generally, and certainly see what it was actually try to record. If you put in your postcode to the site, we can see what the transmitters in your area are like, and see if its something else. Also have a look in the 800's, because thats what its might be trying to record.
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Bob Loader: Off the top of my head, no idea if it should pair up with bluetooth headphones, although bluetooth is in verything these days. AVfourm has probably got a thread on this set, and a trawl through there and the manual should help.
You can always pop a bluetooth adapter in one of the USB's, and see if that works, or use a blue tooth transmitter with a 3.5mm jack (about 15 on Amazon) and connect it via the headphone socket.
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Tuesday 5 January 2016 8:58PM
Sam: No, the resolution cannot change - either your box is picking up HD channels, or its not. Assuming you had HD channels (BBC1 HD, etc) which then didn't appear, and then came back, start with your system. HD channels tend to vanish first with a dodgy signal, so if your aerial connection, etc was acting up, then that might explain it. Is the box acting up? And could I ask if you are using HDMI, scart or both to connect the box? You should only every use one lead, and if your using scart, then you wont 'see' any HD channels. Use only HDMI.
If its coming and going, check signal strength (too high can be bad as well), to work out what the problem is.