All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
loubod: Realistically, your buying another one...
However, perhaps think about getting a PVR with twin HD tuners, like the Humax. It also has a scart, so you can use it with a CRT TV.
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ROBERTSON: I think your confused. This is not CBS's website, not does it have anything to do with them, so your totally wasting your time.
Frankly, I think your wasting your time anyway, since after five minutes of watching CBS Action I decided it was drek, and I very much doubt they care about aspect ratios, etc in any way, shape or form.
And since TOS is available on DVD or Blu-Ray, why not just buy that? (although people are complaining of cheap packaging, so perhaps the seperate seasons instead)
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Nick Anderson: It might well be the mainstay of local TV, but if you can't be viable broadcasting to a London audience, then goodness knows how your going to get local TV to appeal to other areas.
Jeremy Hunt was warned about the lack of any real audience for local TV right at the start, but he wouldn't listen. I'm annoyed that people have invested money in what will almost certainly be business failures, and the fact that the licence payer was expected to help pay for it.
However, TV is a commercial business, and if it doesn't work, what can you do? This was an ideologically driven scheme, based on a false analysis of a US model, with numbers that simply didn't add up.
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Terry: Ok, I assume the TV has at least Freeview in it, so that makes three tuners you want connected.
There are couple of ways to do this:
1) get a four way splitter Online TV Splitters, Amps & Diplexers sales - a F fitting one with adapters for your pushin aerial leads would be fine.This is kind of the way I do my digibox and PVR, albeit with a 2 way split.
2) Loop through the signal via the various boxes until it gets to the back of the TV. The Toshiba should certainly be able to take the feed from the aerial, and then have an 'out' to connect the aerial to another device. If the Digihome has the same setup, do the same again, and then put an aerial lead in the back of the TV. This is the normal way of doing things.
The disadvantages of this approach can be a) If one of the boxes does not 'pass through' the signal when the box is off, then anything further down the chain has stuck without a signal, so make sure that there is always a signal.
b) The longer the chain, the more chance there is of a weak link.
The advantage is that its easy to set up, all you need are decent aerial leads, and its relatively neat.
3) If the Digihome does not have a loop though, then perhaps combine both ways (or just do it anyway). Get a two way splitter (a decent metal one is a fiver on Amazon), and have one section going one way, and then looping through just one box to the TV, and the other branch just feeding the one box.
Frankly, whatever works for you. Your signal strength should be fine for three devices, and the second method is the 'correct' one, with no need for any extra bits. If it doesn't work, try something else. As far as the HDMI connections are concerned, use them where ever possible, because you will probably get upscaling and less likelihood of interference.
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sandra: Although youve got something in the way between you and Belmont, Digital UK reckons your fine for the transmitter, which your pretty close to.
It sounds like you aerial has a problem, probably a loose connection, corroded, etc. Check back from the TV, and make sure there are no loose connection, frayed wires or breaks where moisture could get in.
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B M Laurence: have you checked with your neighbours if they are having problems? Winter Hill's frequency is high enough to possibly be hit by 4G, but if you suddenly getting nothing at all, that could be a sign of a problem with your aerial system. If they are having no problems, then that means its a problem with your system.
As JB38 points out, if they thought you could have a problem, they would have sent you a filter. You can always ask for one anyway, but JB38 is right, it simply could be a coincidence.
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KMJ,Derby: I think your right - in theory we all want local news, etc, but in practice we tend not to bother.
Local stations really have to be part of a larger network, because of economies of scale, which is what happens in the States - Local TV stations are affiliates of networks.
Frankly, local newspapers increasingly dont work either - perhaps Twitter and Facebook give us our local news, and we really dont want to pay for local papers, radio or TV.
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Brianist: If I try to click on 'All transmitters' which comes up after clicking on the main 'Freeview' link, I just get a syntax error.
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Gillie Sturcbecher: The connections you can see might be fine, but if your signal is weak or non-existant, then its almost certainly a problem with your system, probably a break (or wires so frayed as to be almost useless) or pssibly moisture in the wiring somewhere.
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Tuesday 7 October 2014 8:36PM
Bernadette Newsham : It sounds silly, but have you checked the back of your set? If there is 'no signal', it means that the TV is getting no signal at all, or too low a strength for the tuner to pick it up. Since the digibox works, the problem is unlikely to be the aerial, which is the normal problem.
On the other hand, the aerial might have come loose or fallen out the back of the set. Its happened to my digibox - the aerial lead has come out, but its so close that you still get the channel info, but nothing else.