All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Ian: Yes, you can watch them.
But no, without a subscription your box will not play/record/pause.
If you want to play/record/pause, get a Freesat+HD box and swap this for the Sky+HD box. These require no ongoing payment to play/record/pause.
Channel 4 HD is coming to Freesat HD in April.
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Paul: No, the power levels are never touched until the official switchover day.
Your best transmitter is definitely the Hemel Hempstead one - at the moment.
Due to the shifts going on around you, in 2012 both Sandy Heath and Crustal Palace, once switched will provide a much better Freeview service.
I have no idea why anyone would tell you that "that signal strengths are often down on what is normal (usually with no alerts that engineering work is taking place)". This is totally and utterly untrue.
But, as for the reason for your problem with multiplex 2, perhaps trying the Sandy Heath transmitter by moving your aerial?
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Rustyboy: An amplifier won't help if the signal is not there in the first place, amplifiers will not recreate a non-existent signal and usually destroy a digital signal.
Yes, if you attempt to connect a second power supply to your masthead amplifier "everything [will] just blow up".
To help eliminate the problem, can you try the other two aerial points?
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kevin ward: No, you can't connect a dish to Freeview. You will need a FreeSAT HD box, which you can get from any high street electrical retailer.
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Jason Stone: Yes, it is probably the reciever from what you have said.
They are NOT switching off digital next year, they are switching off the ANALOGUE and to allow the boosting of the digital Freeview service.
Why not get a Freesat+HD box, you only pay for the box and it doesn't stop working like a Sky+HD box does when your subscription ends?
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tina: You can connect as many Freesat boxes to your dish as you like.
You will need a suitable "quad-LNB" (they are £20) for the dish to provide enough outputs - if you don't already have one.
You just then need to connect each Freesat box to the LNB outputs on the dish using a satellite-grade cable.
You will be then able to watch any channel on any box.
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Kevin: Basically, no.
You will get better reception from Mendip, but only until April, when the shifting changes caused by switchover will start to degrade the reception from there.
Your Oxford reception is also going to get worse from April too.
If you are going to spend any money, I would recommend you get a Freesat HD box and dish, and use this to fill in your reception holes until 2012.
At some point in 2012, as switchover is finished in the UK, you will get a great Freeview service again.
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Tuesday 22 February 2011 7:10AM
Roger: You can't complain to anyone about reception. Reception is down to you.
If you have a fault, you need to contact an aerial installer.