All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
marian Edwards: check your manual, it sounds like the aerial leads are not connected properly. You should have a lead from the aerial socket to a recording box, and then another aerial lead to the tv. This means that both will get a signal, even if one is switched off - this is how the manual will advise you to do it.
You also need a hdmi (if poss) or scart from the recorder to the tv, to be able to watch what you have recorded. If you want to attach two recorders to a tv, you can connect them both in the same way, but with both recorders attached to the tv bu scart/hdmi as well.
Whatever happens, they must all be connected to the aerial.
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helen: I don't think they have...
A DVD player still needs a scart or hdmi to connect to a tv, but it has nothing to do with the aerial - you need to check those.
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elizabeth woodside: I suggest you both look at the setup menus for your tv's - now and next is normally activated by pressing information, the epg will normally show up automatically unless the settings have been changed.
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Trevor Harris: Could you actually supply hard data for the assertion that 'Many DAB radios are given away as unwanted Christmas presents'? 'Someone I know' is not data, just ancedote. Just why would someone give away a perfectly good radio? Since they also have FM, it would seem slightly pointless, even if you hated DAB.
My experience is that people certainly are buying DAB, both before Christmas, and even more so after (often using vouchers received as presents). I expect good sales this year, although of course tablets will be by far the biggest sellers in our department!
As usual, your obsession with DAB blinds you to the fact that if more people are listening online, they are still listening digitally, not on analogue! The growth in digital listening is 4.4% year on year, while the number of analogue only radios fell signifcantly.
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Peter davies: If you read the manual, it should just pick them up automatcially, or possibly sometimes need a retune.
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Alison Fairgrieve: yes, any tv can be connected to a freesat box (by hdmi if you want HD) - its just the same as using a digibox.
You won't find freesat in most tv's - freeview HD is pretty much standard, and obviously a tuner that few people use is an extra cost - you'll find them at the mid high level 40-42in plus. The only 32 tv that do have freesat are the Samsung 6500 & 6800 - a good mid level tv with 400hz screens - around £550. Since a freesat tuner is about £60 for a cheap one, its easier getting the tv, and getting this as well, unless you want a better picture anyway.
However, the excellent 100hz 32in LG N575 does have a sat. Tuner! LG will not talk about it, but they do have one, and although its generic rather that freesat, a look around the web shows it is useable, although the epg will not be the same.
Since the 575 and the lg 620 are good value in 32 anyway, they might be worth a look. If they work, great, if not then just get a freesat box as well.
A word of advice from someone who is paid to advise people about tv's- find the right size. 1.5m away from a 32 is fine, and ten feet for a 40/42in (37s are no longer made) once you have the right size, everything else is easy. Pretty much all of the four major brands tv's will have freeview HD, be smart and have wifi, and are cheaper than ever before.
However, a freesat box (humax sell graded ones at decent prices) should be fine with any existing or future tv.
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Trevor Harris: as usual, your projecting your own anti DAB bias onto a fairly ordinary bit of news.
In fact there have been phones with DAB, or with DAB adding headphones (Nokia did one a year or two back), but they did have the drawback of being adding, and of course current chips use a fair amount of power.
However, newer chips may bring that power consumption down considerably, and of course there might be the wish to listen to radio when out of the range of 3/4G reception. Either way, it does not mean there was no demand to listening to digital radio, it's just that the technology really wasn't ready.
I suspect that such a senior figure in BBC radio is aware that the iplayer app exists (!), and very good it is too (it's on the ipod I'm using right now), but not all devices have this capacity - for instance anything that just has wifi or blue tooth.
Once again your antipathy towards DAB misses the bigger picture - if I'm listening on an app on my phone or tablet, I'm not listening on LW or FM.....
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MMcIntyre: the roku is simply a streamer, and its problems are more to do with broadband speed, and has nothing to do with tv reception.
If you are getting low or no signal, either three is a problem with transmitters (which is unlikely for more than a short time), or you have a problem with your aerial. Check the signal chain back from the box/tv. Could just be a loose cable, but it possible you have a loose, corroded or frayed coax somewhere.
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Tuesday 29 October 2013 2:29PM
helen: check your manual - the scart/hdmi is probably not attached to the tv, so you need to check you've wired it up properly.