TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 The past couple of days, my TV reception has been terrible. I could only watch BBC channels and all the others I could get would be unwatchable, with jumping screens and stuttering audio.Now today all I can get are some of the BBC channels (no BBC4 or Radio 1 - 6).Is anyone else having problems, or have suggestions on how to solve my problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 *que A team intro music*if no one else can help and if you can find him...maybe you can hire...The A-lkaline! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 *que A team intro music*if no one else can help and if you can find him...maybe you can hire...The A-lkaline!Haha. To the rescue with some infuriating information!!They are dicking around with the Durris transmitter at the moment. Who knows when they'll be finished and whether it will have screwed up your reception for good or not.It may also be a problem with either your aerial itself (if it's an indoor aerial try it on another set). It may sound ridiculous but heavy birds (seagulls predominantly) seem to have some sort of need to attempt to bend people's aerial elements by plunking their oafish flea ridden bodies on top of them. Check your leads too as sometimes the buggers can work their way loose and make sure the ends are tight on the flex itself.Ask your neighbours if they are having similar problems too.Everyone in Aberdeen should give up on terrestrial broadcasts and go the Freesat route in my opinion. The transmitters would be better if they were replaced with country yokels standing in a field with a coathanger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted September 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Haha. To the rescue with some infuriating information!!They are dicking around with the Durris transmitter at the moment. Who knows when they'll be finished and whether it will have screwed up your reception for good or not.It may also be a problem with either your aerial itself (if it's an indoor aerial try it on another set). It may sound ridiculous but heavy birds (seagulls predominantly) seem to have some sort of need to attempt to bend people's aerial elements by plunking their oafish flea ridden bodies on top of them. Check your leads too as sometimes the buggers can work their way loose and make sure the ends are tight on the flex itself.Ask your neighbours if they are having similar problems too.Everyone in Aberdeen should give up on terrestrial broadcasts and go the Freesat route in my opinion. The transmitters would be better if they were replaced with country yokels standing in a field with a coathanger.Cheers for that. I tried unplugging and replugging everything in, but that has made no difference whatsoever. I blame the Durris transmitter thing, bastards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Everyone in Aberdeen should give up on terrestrial broadcasts and go the Freesat route in my opinion. I have Sky but the picture quality is shocking and noticably worse than the Freeview reception that the telly can pick up. How does Freesat compare quality wise to both Sky and Freeview (talking about SD for the time being, although once an HD Freesat with a PVR is available I would def. consider that route.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 I have Sky but the picture quality is shocking and noticably worse than the Freeview reception that the telly can pick up. How does Freesat compare quality wise to both Sky and Freeview (talking about SD for the time being, although once an HD Freesat with a PVR is available I would def. consider that route.)If you have an HD capable TV an HD Freesat box is a nice upgrade for around 150. The HDMI output gives you a much better connection and doesn't expose as much of the flaws in the transmission.Satellite has always been worse than terrestrial in terms of picture quality due to the compression rate that is used in Satellite transmissions. HD does improve that considerably but maybe when the freeview platform changes to DVBT-2 in the next few years HD on freeview may be a better picture too.The Freesat signal is just the same as Sky due to the compression rates but using better connections/ taking advantage of RGB wired scart sockets can help improve a picture in these cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 So in recommending Freesat over Freeview you are encouraging people to take a step down in picture quality then?I think I'll stick to Currys for my "expert" sales advice in future. Oh, and I do use RGB but the picture quality is still shocking through Sky (I've got a 37" LCD). But as I say, HD Freesat would be an option once there is a PVR (sensibly priced). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 So in recommending Freesat over Freeview you are encouraging people to take a step down in picture quality then?I think I'll stick to Currys for my "expert" sales advice in future. Oh, and I do use RGB but the picture quality is still shocking through Sky (I've got a 37" LCD). But as I say, HD Freesat would be an option once there is a PVR (sensibly priced).Only if they are plagued with poor reception which a lot of the Aberdeenshire area is. And how bad a picture looks also depends on the set that's being used. I thoroughly recommend ditching any sort of noise reduction and live colour enhancers that tend to be on LCD sets. Also what is the resolution of your LCD. It is an obvious factor that if you have a 1080p LCD set an SD picture would be worse on a mid-large sized set as the sets internal scaler is having to make up 3/4s of the information so it's not a tiny picture in the middle of the screen (i can go into a bit more detail if you want).I know a lot more about this sort of thing than most (if not all) of the sort of people that work in places like Curry's. Freesat is a much better option if you actually want to watch TV where the Freeview reception is poor. The drop in picture quality depends on a number of variables but Freeview will always be better.I'd get an external PVR by the way. Having individual components is a much better idea long term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 By the way, i should also point out that i don't sell Freesat. So i'm impartial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Ooh, looks like I touched a nerve. The point of having an HD Freesat PVR would be so you could like, you know, record HD stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Ooh, looks like I touched a nerve. The point of having an HD Freesat PVR would be so you could like, you know, record HD stuff?There's not going to be much in the way of HD stuff free to air for quite a while yet. You could be waiting a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Cheers for that. I tried unplugging and replugging everything in, but that has made no difference whatsoever. I blame the Durris transmitter thing, bastards.our digital TV's being losing channels now and again...it can be fixed (most times) by swithitching the TV off (from the socket) wait 10 secs, and plug it back in. But, we have had some signal trouble too, so I'd plump for the Durris thing too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 There's not going to be much in the way of HD stuff free to air for quite a while yet. You could be waiting a while.No, apparently they're going to be available later this year, and it would still be useful to have a PVR to record what HD output there is IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted September 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 our digital TV's being losing channels now and again...it can be fixed (most times) by swithitching the TV off (from the socket) wait 10 secs, and plug it back in. But, we have had some signal trouble too, so I'd plump for the Durris thing too.It must have been some stuff going on with Durris, as all the channels that I usually get have magically reappeared overnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 It must have been some stuff going on with Durris, as all the channels that I usually get have magically reappeared overnight.It could also have been the weather. Wind and rain can cause quite a bit of signal break-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted September 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 It could also have been the weather. Wind and rain can cause quite a bit of signal break-up.Doubt it, for some odd reason bad weather usually means I get a better reception and more channels (Film 4 for example). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skamikazee Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 My freeview box at my new place doesnt even pick up the BBC channels or Channel 4, only Five, Fiver, Five US, UKTVhistory and Film4, piece of shite. Annoying thing is that I'd happily pay for Sky but my new house is listed so I can't get a dish installed.Weird thing is I got great freeview reception when I was at Hillhead halls (just live round the corner from there now). Anyone know how to improve the situation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 My freeview box which previously worked fine has lost all but 4 or 5 channels after I rescanned it the other day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Stu Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Anyone know how to improve the situation?Do you have an internal or external aerial? What height/floor is it off the ground? Have you tested your analogue signal reception?A rescan might do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 A rescan might do the trick.Or it might lose the bulk of your channels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Stu Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 Or it might lose the bulk of your channels I'd be happy to lose the bulk of my channels, but if they take my Dave there would be blood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ghost Of Fudge Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 ours rescanned, and we're down to BBC1, BBC2 and a handful of crap channels. on the plus side, we never got Dave before, and now we do. woo hoo.i'd still swap Dave for the rest of the fucking channels though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nev Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 We lost a good few channels at the weekend.I've not checked which ones, but hopefully there's now no excuse for QVC to be on at any time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooms Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 if i had to lose every single channel but one, I would choose to keep Dave. fact.also, i have sky and a 37" tv and although i recognise the picture quality isn't GREAT, i'd say it was far from poor and definitely not unwatchable by any means! but granted when i stick a Blu-Ray in the PS3 you say to your self "is THIS what it's supposed to look like...aaaaahhhhh!!!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted October 4, 2008 Report Share Posted October 4, 2008 And the bad news is that the engineering works won't be finished on the Durris transmitter until Jan 09, if this is anything to go by:Digital UK - Planned engineering work tableFreeview on Durris TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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