All posts by Anthony
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I've noticed an unpleasant side effect to the pictures on the HD channels;sometimes in dimly lit or poorly lit scenes of programmes there is an unpleasant strobing/comet tailing effect with a unpleasant after-image shadowing strobe effect (similar to what has been seen in 70's pop videos and tv programmes). Nothing is wrong with my HD tv and reception equipment.
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stephen craig: NO Terrestrial aerials and cable are NOTHING to do with Sky whatsoever. Terrestrial aerials and cables receive Freeview TV channels from terrestrial landbased TV transmitters. Satellite cables and dishes receive Sky/Freesat channels and services from Astra 2 satellites @ 28.2degE and Eurobird1 @ 28.5degE.
Replace your terrestrial aerial with a new one and cabling pointed at your local tv transmitter for Freeview TV services.
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Stu: No UK based channels on Astra 2 will use the UK spotbeam aimed at the UK and parts of North West Europe. Some subscription Sky channels will use the Pan-European beam which covers a good part of mainland Europe.
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Michel: Would a better aerial help? A carefully aligned new high gain wideband aerial and fresh cabling would probably improve it somewhat particularly if your aerial has been up for a number of years i.e. corrosion/water in cable etc.
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Andrew: What size of dish have you got? All should be well in Northern France as it's in good view of the Astra 2 UK footprint overspill. A bigger 60cm dish may help if you are losing out on a small 35cm minidish.
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Where will the 162 new BBC DAB transmitters be? | Digital radioMonday 20 January 2014 11:14AM
Accrington
I wish the BBC had persevered with Digital Radio Mondiale on MW and Digital Radio Mondiale Plus on VHF-FM 87-108mHz. These systems use existing AM and FM wavebands to provide good quality near FM mono and stereo radio services over existing infrastructure.
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A good line of sight with no obstructions to the transmitter may help and an indoor boosted tv aerial might also assist reception BUT this isn't recommended;interference from household electrical appliances/heating timer switches etc coming on and off may cause squeaks/breakup and glitches occasionally.
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J Wilkinson: Is there anything in the house that could be causing interference to her Freeview signal ie fridges/heating etc? Is the aerial and/or cables at fault? I would hazard a guess it could be one of those two possibilities.
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Monday 13 January 2014 10:13AM
Channel 54 from Winter Hill that carries all the HD channels is variable in signal strength;my friends aerial is a good installation and he has a Panasonic HD Viera Plasma 50in TV, when i've autotuned it 54 is variable, it comes and goes, same with manual tuning, any answers?