All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Daniele Wiseman: I did realise two Toshiba's was involved in your set up but wasn't quite sure about their aerial arrangements, although when the bedroom Toshiba uses an outside aerial and the other an indoor type, then that makes it easy to compare the signal levels between both to determine which aerial is giving the best signal, of course making sure that they are both tuned to the same station.
If though the outdoor one is the best then for success it really requires it to be fed into a four way splitter, then the splitters four outputs distributed to the various rooms.
Still the single input / output device you have chosen is perfect for the purpose of boosting the downstairs signal, although it would still have been better if it was coupled into the aerial with the best signal.
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Tony Steed: Just to add to that already said regarding signal fluctuations, being: provided that your dish is not close to any high trees as that type of situation can cause also cause erratic signal levels to be seen accompanied by intermittent picture freezing.
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sharon: Sandy Heath (Anglia) is indicated as the station that serves your area and on checking a few minutes ago everything appears to perfectly OK over all channels, if the problem is still in existence then have a check at your aerial system, and if you use a powered booster / splitter to feed the various TV's make sure that its power has not been switched off.
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anne mcdonald: Taking it that you are referring to a Sky box then press "services" 4-6 and check what the signal strength / quality bars are indicated as being as both should be equivalent to about 70% or so, if they (or just the quality) is indicating considerably lower than this then the dish is slightly out of alignment, most likely in the horizontal "left to right" plane and possibly caused by it have moved in the wind, or maybe even been struck by something like a ball or even a bird.
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bernie: Although the answer would normally be by using a standard scart lead between both devices is it the case that your new TV does not have a scart socket? and if this applies then is your Sky box a normal type or is it a Sky+ HD type? because if so then use an HDMI lead between both devices with the HDMI connected into the TV's No1 HDMI socket as that usually has an auto-switch sensor.
If though its not a HD box then come back with the model number of the Samsung TV to enable its spec to be checked out.
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David Dean: Yes, as there are no technical differences between dishes / LNB's used for Freesat or Sky reception.
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Briantist: Fully realising that you are a very busy person by having to constantly keep the wealth of information on the site up to date, but I would really appreciate if you could find a time slot to have a check at the feed used to enable access to site via Twitter, as the listings have not been updated since July 5th.
Many thanks in advance.
Regards jb.
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Nicholas: Dave and Film 4 are transmitted from two different multiplexes (ArqA and ArqB respectively) and in many areas these particular multiplexes operate on considerably lower power than the main PSB channels like BBC & ITV, this being the case its therefore essential to have knowledge of your location (post code or one from nearby) for purposes of checking on the signal strengths predicted for wherever you might be located, that is as well the transmitting station that the signals are from.
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Mike: The first thing that would spring to mind is whether or not you have forgotten to select the correct scart input socket on the recorder that connected to the Virgin box, this done via the recorders "input selector" menu where it indicates the various input socket options, as on a recorder if the input is not pre-selected the default input is the recorders own tuner
If though you have have done this correctly then try a test by recording something from a BBC channel.
If after having checked the points mentioned you still cannot get it to work then give an update on the model of recorder in question.
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Friday 13 July 2012 9:26PM
Ben Ward: I fully appreciate the difficulty that you mention if as you say the power supply is only accessible from the loft, but the reason that I suggested this test is because that any device of a signal booster variety (no matter how small) automatically becomes an attenuator if un-powered, and in areas of genuinely high signal strength this can be put to good use as far as this being a useful way of verifying (or not) if an excessive level of signal is applying in an installation, because if reception suddenly improves (signal indications rise) by switching off the booster / splitter then it is. (qualifications always applying)
Everything really hinges on what you have reported regarding the signal strength seen on the Humax as it takes quite a signal to indicate that level on this type of box, and although a Humax is a sensitive device its still capable holding out longer than most other equipment before suffering from overload blocking by an excessively high levels of signal.
The Panasonic on the other hand although being equally as sensitive as the Humax "will" start to suffer from excessively high levels of signal over what the Humax can cope with, and the massive difference in levels seen on the Panasonic's signal check screen when using the ex Humax's aerial can suggest this is indeed applying, and likewise could be causing partial instability in the Panasonic's tuner resulting in totally inaccurate readings, with these (and without exception) always being low
This is about the only thing that can be causing the Panasonic's problems, although if not then the actual TV is defective, this being why the issue of a possible excessive signal has to be verified one way or the other.