Going digital tv
 

As digital tv has been going for a while & the turning off of analogue, paying a lot more & yeh theres some choice lol BUT there is one flaw that analogue is better at...........

.....darn no interferance with a decent ariel!!!!! My sky signal has been playing up badly since last night, & my dish is sited at the highest point on the chimney. Even freeview & that blipps & freezes. You would think they would have counteracted that by now, now worse than not being able to get decent picture or sound & i've never had that problem with analogue.

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My friends bought me a free view box, so I've finally gone digital. Sadly it's so complicated to fix up through the DVD/video, that I can't record anything. Luckily my sister-in-law is coming to sort it out.

I agree the picture isn't as good. Sometimes the screen pixilates or freezes.

Most of the channels are rubbish. Though it is good to have BBC 3 and 4.

I also like Yorkshire Beauty School on Sky 3. Yorkshire chavs doing Brazilians. V funny.:D

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With the Sky dish, the important thing is not that it is fixed to the highest elevation of your house. The main thing is that it should point in the right direction and also be pointing up into the wide blue yonder at the correct angle, to maximise the signal. It also needs a direct line of sight to the sattelite.

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:eek: What, on sheep???

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Yeh ture point also, I've had the dish up for ages never had a problem even in high winds just strange it worked perfectly upto 1.30am last night & not properly since, checked the signal & its fluctuating quite a lot up & down:confused:

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Yeh we have sky and our dish is on the chimney as we didnt like the look of it on the front of the house however mines always been fine.

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never had a problem with ntl coz it comes from under teh groud and weather dosnt effect your reception

but yeah ive noticed all these freeview box's etc freez up and go blocky like a crappy pirate dvd

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we have a digi box in all our rooms that go through main aeriel (no dish) and we only have a prob when the weather is really bad and pic freezes so i dont think its necessarly the dishes on your houses

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I dont have sky just bbc1, bbc2, itv, and channel 4. Dont get channel 5 here so a freeview box is useless. Dont know what i will do when it goes digital.

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With Freeview you'll get BBC 3/4 as well as E4 Film4 etc, just by plugging it in.

Since we'll all soon need them (2008?) it might be a good present to add to your list for Father Christmas.

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Plus you'll get Channel 5.

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A lot of people are under the impression that if you can't get channel 5 then you can't get digital, its pure non-sense, we can't get channel 5 here, plug a freeview box in and you get it plus another 30? channels, might not be the case for everyone but our signal is a lot better with digital than analogue, but it does pixelate and freeze mainly about tea time for some reason

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Nope not a chance it was fixed permanently for that reason being up here, it working fine again now - just now & again it goes funny, even more annoying is when it rains hard

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just gone mental again so bad i've had to turn the tv off its that annoying:mad: i payed for crap viewing today...tell me who gets booted off the x factor i have no analogue either:mad:

I think its sky taking the pi$3 as it was perfect a bit ago:mad:

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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)

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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.