All posts by jb38
Below are all of jb38's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Tony: You can safely uncouple the two "F" connectors from the Sky box and connect them into your Humax for purposes of setting it up ready for action when your Sky subscription ends, as there is no danger whatsoever of upsetting anything, as indeed you will find when you reconnect the "F" connectors back into the Sky box.
By the way, it doesn't matter either which way round you reconnect the "F" plugs, as they are identical to each other as well as being electrically independent.
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Sheila: Yes, as you cannot share a lead from a satellite dish. The other problem is that if you only have a single outlet on your dishes LNB then this will require to be changed to either a dual block or more sensibly a quad version, as the cost difference is absolutely minimal between the two, a quad LNB being around £10.00 or so and taking minutes to fit.
Other than that nothing else requires to be done.
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gar dixon: If by split you are meaning a two way "switchable" split then that will of course work albeit that the Sky+ plus box will then have restrictions as far as recording is concerned, this because it requires two feeds to be able to view one programme whilst recording the other as two tuners are involved.
I would use the switch on the Sky boxes No2 input.
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A Parratt: Simply because the three missing multiplexes are purely for commercial interests and which none of wishes to pay for, the licence fee obviously not covering these.
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Richard: Anything other than what you are presently picking up from Aldeburgh would be for purely commercial purposes, with you reason that you aren't being that the commercial interests referred to are not willing to pay the running costs of additional transmitters, this basically as the financial returns expected would not justify it.
If you had indicated your location (pref: post code) the signal level expected from any other stations within possible reach could have been checked on.
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patrick bradley: If you can receive them OK just now then yes, as analogue services are never switched off until an hour or so before digital takes over.
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Mazbar: On reading your posting there was two little points I wondered about, these being, when you say that the signal on the Samsung is breaking up very badly is this on all channels? and if it isn't, then have you verified (by channel number checking) that the Samsung is receiving all of its compliment of six muxes from Winter Hill and not picking some up from elsewhere? something which isn't entirely impossible on looking at the reception predictions for that area, Moel y Parc and Llanddona being two of the possibilities particularly the former.
Just to clarify, on your latest posting are you meaning that the change of aerial has made no difference? and finally isn't there another TV in the house that can be used to assess performance?
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Mazbar: Meant also to include, that although you will probably have them to hand anyway but the multiplexes used by Winter Hill are Ch's 62 - 59 - 54(HD)- 58 - 61 - 55, there is a very local channel called "Men" on 1Kw but you might not receive that at 15mls.
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Patricia: Quite simply a normal aerial, the point is though that its not necessarily the case that you will receive Freeview HD channels on your TV this way, as although your TV will show HD from an externally connected HD box whether it be a Freeview or a Freesat version, your TV can only show it without external devices if it has an HD capable tuner, so have a look at its user manual / specifications / tuner and see if DVB-T2 is indicated, if its only DVB-T then it cannot receive HD.
Or of course if you provide the model number it can be checked on, also if you are aware of it having "HD Ready" printed on its box then that generally means it cannot except via an external source.
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Wednesday 18 January 2012 9:07PM
helen ballinger: I did actually assume that you meant a Freeview box but just wanted to verify the point, as you have to appreciate if an engineer or anyone else is offering remote advice on a problem then any reply given is made purely as the result of assessing what they have been told, this being why I queried the point just in case the device referred to wasn't what I was assuming.
I can tell you though, that if you have had another Freeview box fail then it was much more likely to have been because of a defect in its power supply rather than an actual problem with the tuner as such, however as far as your LG is concerned it does in this case suggest a problem with the tuner, as the test you done where "snow" was observed on the screen was an indication that the analogue tuner was OK, and the same power supply basically feeds both devices.
Therefore depending on how much you value the LG you could make an enquiry at some local TV repair shop regarding an estimate for repair and mentioning the suspected reason for your problem, much as they are liable to try and instantly dismiss what you say, depending on what like they are!