All posts by John
Below are all of John's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
MikeRead: Is your HD TV definitely "Freeview HD" compatible? If not, it will ignore any signals on the HD mux as if there is nothing there. The set must have a DVB-T2 compatible tuner to receive the HD channels, otherwise you would need a Freeview HD box to receive them. Your manual will confirm. See earlier comments from Brian and others on this issue
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Simon: I presume you have done a retune through Windows Media Centre since Wednesday? The aerial should be fine, if it was OK before, and Coventry is in a strong area for SC. I am in Coventry and I can get good signals on my laptop runnng Media Centre with a FreeCom DVB-T USB card - and that's using the little rod aerial it comes with. Could be too much signal - try a different aerial on your TV adaptor
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Simon: Might be worth checking with your neighbours, to see if they have had any problems. I know a few houses around the Coventry area seem to have aerials on a relay (possibly Lark Stoke), but most are on Sutton. If you had a good analogue signal before DSO on your roof aerial, then digital reception from SC shouldn't be a problem. If the breakup occurs on some, but not all your channels, then it may be an individual mux that is either weak or being interfered with. In any case, a useful test would be to borrow another DVB receiver or set-top box and plug it in to your aerial, so that you can see what the quality of your received signals are like.
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Stuart O: I wonder if the UHF modulated output from the Sky+ box is having a detrimental effect on the quality of the signal being passed through the loop-through from your aerial and amplifier?. If there is an option in the Sky+ box menu to turn it off temporarily, try that and see if it improves, and retune it to another channel as you mentioned. The same goes for the VCR and the DVD if they have a UHF output.
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Wednesday 13 July 2011 12:12PM
Helen: If you plug either of the two dish feeds that originally plugged into the Sky box directly into the back of your Panasonic TV, you should be good to go with FreeSat - this is what I do with my dual service Panasonic, and it works fine with all the normal and HD channels available. You can leave the other connection free to plug into some other device in the future