All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Dave Kirk: I'd agree with MikeP - if only so you dont have to go up in the loft! And yes, they are cheap, which is fine, they seem to the job OK for me, so buy a couple of different ones, and see how they do.
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m.whitbrook: David Lindsay pointed out on the 12th January that you very close to the transmitter, hence your problem is almost certainly to do with too high a signal. You need to sort that out, which is easy to do.
Sat. dishes are unlikely to have an effect on your Freeview reception at all.
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janet downward: Check your aerial is plugged in and working properly. Also make sure that your actually looking at the digital tuner in the TV, and not analogue, a scart socket, etc.
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andy: Check out the differences here: All of the free TV channels in the UK
HD is of course one advantage, but of course the other is that if you have a twin LNB, you've got the chance to record, unlike a 2nd hand Sky box. And you would get on demand TV from a Manhattan or Humax box.
I'm not sure I'd be that disappointed to lose some of the Free Sky channels anyway - Horse & Country TV?
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geoffrey o'neill: I'm sorry, but your mistaken. No matter how good the potential source (and yes, you might be able to stream 4K content at a fast enough speed via the Panasonic app, although the content is hardly exciting), your panel is equally important.
You have an HD TV. Your screen resolution is 1920 x 1080. Thats it. You've got just over 2m pixels. But UHD TV's use a 3,840 x 2,160 resolution (as I explained before and is pointed out here - What is 4K TV and Ultra HD? Everything you need to know - Opinion - Trusted Reviews )
Thats over eight million pixels. So your trying to show 8m pixels on a 2m screen. Thats not UHD, although it will look good. Both source and panels have to be UHD. I could claim that if I could get an HD feed into my CRT TV, then I'm watching HD. I cant. The best I can do is to watch stuff on BBC1 originally filmed in HD and then broadcast in a resolution my TV can handle - SD.
I'm not sure who told you you could watch 4K on an HD screen, but they are wrong. Brianist wrote a page about the various levels of screen resolution here: A comparison of TV, HDTV and computer monitors
Perhaps an update to include 4K would be helpful.
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m.whitbrook: The summer months tend to have tress in leaf, the winter does not, which might explain why the problem is worse in winter.
If you'd simply follow the advice on the page 'too much of a good thing', you dont need to pay anyone. You just need an attentuator to kill the signal a bit, which cost less than two pounds each on Amazon.
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Lynda: Easiest way to find out - get a TV you know works fine and plug it into that wall socket. If its rubbish, then you know its the socket, the aerial lead orl the cable that goes down to the socket. Likewise, check the new TV on another feed - if its fine, then you know its the socket. I suspect that the lead coming off the aerial has a problem, and if its in the loft, have a look to make sure its not frayed, etc.
There is one other possibility - is it tuned to the same transmitter as all other others? I have to admit I simply dont recommend TV/DVD combi's any wmore - they are just not that great, and the software might be a bit basic. So its possible that the tuner is picking up the wrong transmitter first, hence your problems. Check that its tuned to the correct transmitter. You've not put your postcode into the system, so I cant check which one it should be, but you can check yourself.
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Rose Dentith: A postcode would be a help, since we'd know what sort of signal you should get, what the best type of aerial, etc. A roof top (or possibly) loft aerial might be fine, and then a splitter of some kind (powered?) down to each socket in each room.. There is loads of useful information here: A.T.V (Aerials And Television) FM DAB TV Aerial, plus poles and brackets
You could also think about the Sky dish - if you have extra LNB's available you could use them as well.
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Friday 23 January 2015 6:11PM
Dave Kirk: You can, but you will spend a bit more. See here: 18dB Coax Plug Inline ATTENUATOR: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
They obviously do other ones as well. Best thing to do is to buy a couple of different ones, and then you can see which one works best. If you need to kill the signal more than just using one, you can put them in series. Also good idea to use an extra fly lead, so that nothing vaguely heavy stick out of the socket.