All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Pat Hughes: Note that Divis will not carry these services though. A separate aerial may therefore be needed for those without one on one of the three transmitters mentioned by Briantist.
A Freeview HD receiver will be needed, standard definition only receivers won't work.
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Nicki Hardy: What is the model number of the Sony DVD player/recorder? This is so that the specifications might be checked, and in particular whether it does have an inbuilt digital tuner.
You say that you could record from the TV, as long as you were watching the channel you wanted to record. This suggests that you might have been using the tuner within the TV to record from, maybe connected via scart and hence the signal was being carried along the scart lead FROM the TV to the recorder. If this is so, then there is no tuning to be done, you need to switch over to the scart input as you did previously. If you have done so, then perhaps you have plugged the scart lead into the wrong scart socket on the TV (into one which does not send the picture out).
The model number of the TV might also be helpful.
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Helen: You should attach the large TV to the old Sky box with a scart lead. The fact that you are receiving "No Signal" message probably relates to the fact that there is no terrestrial aerial plugged into it. There is no need to scan for channels on the TV (to receive from the Sky box) if you have the devices connected via a scart lead.
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John Palmer: Analysis of UHF channels used by Oxford and Sutton Coldfield shows that the former uses those between 53 and 62 and the latter uses 39 to 46.
The trick is to run the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged whilst it scans Sutton Coldfield channels and plugged in for Oxford.
Run the scan with the aerial unplugged and plug in when it gets to 55%.
Note that there will be a retune event for Oxford that will take place some time next year. SDN (ITV3 etc) will change from ch62 to ch50.
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Alex: Your machine is on the list of devices that have updates being broadcast.
See this posting I made previously on this topic (and those of two people experiencing similar issues):
Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
If you switch your machine off at the wall overnight, then leave it on.
It could be that you are infact switching it off whilst it is updating, thus preventing it from doing a successful update meaning that it tries again the next time it's broadcast.
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David Rayner: Burnham transmits only the Public Sector Broadcaster (PSB) services. You will need to retain another aerial on another transmitter to pick up the commercial services.
The aerial group for Sudbury and Burnham are the same, so if you have a group (non-wideband) aerial for Sudbury, then you will be OK with it on the Burnham relay.
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David Rayner: You should be aware that BBC standard definition and HD services from Burnham are currently on low power of 100W and on temporary channels. On 27th June they will move to their perminant channels at their full final power of 500W. ITV1/C4 etc is already at 500W, so you might find that you can pick up those but not BBC and HD. It depends where you are exactly as to whether you will need that extra power in the signal.
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Matt B: I expect that South Today and South East Today will adjust their news coverage areas so anyone who does re-align to Rowridge will find that they get less news relevant to their area, if any.
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Briantist: So RT1, RT2 and TG4 will be (or are) available on BT Vision's on-demand service?
Or will BT Vision boxes be able to receive these channels off-air, when they become available?
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Wednesday 25 January 2012 11:22AM
John Buchanan: Yes, a lot of people will be confused and perhaps carry out unnecessary scans thereby causing more problems such as getting the wrong transmitter stored as the main one. Perhaps some will assume that this is the correct one and wonder why it is that their transmitter is now a poorer signal (breaking up etc).
Storing of the incorrect transmitter (i.e. the one for which the aerial does not face) is obviously a common problem, particularly in certain areas. The same thing happened with analogue and this usually meant a poor picture.