Re: Going digital tv
 

I made the big mistake in buying a new digital tv. At least with my old free view set up when it played up, I could just watch analogue tv. I have just had a new aerial put up, its not doing it as much but it still freezes . The aerial chap said it would improve if I got an amplifier, I am not so sure ... do I want to pay another £60 for it not to work, because he can't guarantee it.

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Can you not switch to analogue on your new TV? I can on mine, I use the TV button on the remote instead of the DTV (I think thats what there labelled without going to look)

Re: Going digital tv
 

I’ve had a digibox for a few years now and it was simple to connect up even though I have a DVD player as well. My digital signal comes through the aerial and when asked the digibox tunes itself to all available freeview channels. They were all changed around recently but I was back in phase within a few minutes.

Recently though I have noticed that when using the digibox part of the picture is sometimes pixelated for a second or two. The other thing that I have noticed is that when viewing digital I have to turn the sound up quite a lot.

I don’t know if this applies to digiboxes or digital telly but the other day I read that a digital radio uses about 8 times more energy that its analogue cousin.

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Most people around here are using the 48cm mini dish. This is called the zone 1 dish. I think we are a little north for a zone 1 dish and we should all be using a zone 2 dish which is 60cm. They are the same shape just a little bigger. The bigger dish will give a stronger signal to your digibox. This should help with the signal loss during bad weather. I only have a zone 1 because it used to be my neighbours, I was about to move my dish as it was partially obscured by the side of his house when I first moved in, he saw me and told me I could have his old dish on our shared chimney as he had gone NTL. When the weather is very bad I start getting broken up and freezing pictures. When the weather is bad and my digibox is breaking up I can move my big dish round and watch sky with my dreambox with no breaking up. In the case of satellite dish's, size does matter ;) The mounting height of the dish makes no difference, the satellite is 22,000 + miles away so a few feet higher on your house won't matter.
It is probably a little out of line Mel.

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Could also be a duff LNB that is affected by damp

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It is a common mistake to refer to a freeview box as a digibox. Digibox is actually a trademark of BSkyB and refers to their digital satellite receiver. Digibox has become a common name for any digital satellite or terrestrial TV receiver.

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Or damaged coax or the digibox itself.
I was just guessing at what is probably the most common fault.