2. There was little or zero increase in power registered on switchover. The claims for that are clearly absurd. Even allowing for inverse square laws before anyone pipes up.
3. I am starting to understand my nutty neighbour who threw all his freeview gear in the bin before switchover - I just assumed it would be fixed when the power went up and waited.
4. There is no problem whatsoever with my installation.
Billy- Sadly the power has not increased at switchover no matter what they claim.
Because I had to have this huge aerial and amp I watched the power quite closely.
I no longer trust any claims made for freeview or any technical information.
We used to get a great analogue picture with a bent coathanger stuffed in the back of a TV - now we cant get a reliable picture at all.
This is service degradation not improvement.
I've seen more complaints about freeview than any other product or service in history.
Not just here (Funny how the sutton thread is always top of the pops here)
I dont know how far away sutton is but I'd guess less that 15 miles - this is ridiculous. You can transmit around the globe on 1Kw (Albeit not tv)
today HD started playing up for the first time.
I've swapped aerials swapped boxes and box manufacturers more than once - the early boxes were a total bugridden con. as I'm sure many know.
As far as I (and others around here) can see
freeview is an expensive degradation of TV broadcasting.
Thank you all for your time - I can only assume it works great in patches - somewhere.
It seems to me TV as a whole is getting to be far too much trouble to bother with. If its not the signal its the pointless and annoying rubbish being broadcast on every channel. And thats before you consider the outrageously excessive advertising.
I've ordered virgin cable. At least the kids will get their cbeebies next week.
Saturday 15 October 2011 2:22PM
I found someone and started shouting - the following day it started working - for 5 days. I cant prove any connection but it is suspicious.
Some things for certain:
1. Power is NOT overloading my box.
2. There was little or zero increase in power registered on switchover. The claims for that are clearly absurd. Even allowing for inverse square laws before anyone pipes up.
3. I am starting to understand my nutty neighbour who threw all his freeview gear in the bin before switchover - I just assumed it would be fixed when the power went up and waited.
4. There is no problem whatsoever with my installation.
Billy- Sadly the power has not increased at switchover no matter what they claim.
Because I had to have this huge aerial and amp I watched the power quite closely.
I no longer trust any claims made for freeview or any technical information.
We used to get a great analogue picture with a bent coathanger stuffed in the back of a TV - now we cant get a reliable picture at all.
This is service degradation not improvement.
I've seen more complaints about freeview than any other product or service in history.
Not just here (Funny how the sutton thread is always top of the pops here)
I dont know how far away sutton is but I'd guess less that 15 miles - this is ridiculous. You can transmit around the globe on 1Kw (Albeit not tv)
today HD started playing up for the first time.
I've swapped aerials swapped boxes and box manufacturers more than once - the early boxes were a total bugridden con. as I'm sure many know.
As far as I (and others around here) can see
freeview is an expensive degradation of TV broadcasting.
Thank you all for your time - I can only assume it works great in patches - somewhere.
It seems to me TV as a whole is getting to be far too much trouble to bother with. If its not the signal its the pointless and annoying rubbish being broadcast on every channel. And thats before you consider the outrageously excessive advertising.
I've ordered virgin cable. At least the kids will get their cbeebies next week.
I wish you all well and thank you again.