I live in an apartment here in Florida, but the TV principle is the same - instead of an aerial, we have a cable company distribution amplifier outside the building.

I was getting periodic iffy reception of the digital TV signal and Broadband and the cable co was reporting 100% good signal at the dist box for both. I made new cables to go between the wall sockets and the TVs / VCRs and the Router. No difference. It wasn't until I took the wall plates off and checked the in-wall cable terminations that the problem was solved. Whoever had installed the in-home cable system had left the cable distribution block with two ports open and unterminated with 50 ohm pads, and had kinked the input cable badly.

I put pads on the open ports and cut the kink out and put a new connector onto the incoming cable - instant success, with a rock steady clean picture. That was about three months ago and all has been fine ever since.

Originally Posted by Ancient_Mariner

Danny Boy calling Broadsword: Encrypted message received and understood. Danny Boy out.

What does I am a culnt mean?

Originally Posted by Kirkz

What does I am a culnt mean?

Cee you late next Tuesday?

Originally Posted by Kirkz

What does I am a culnt mean?

It means I haven't sobered up yet from lunch time.

(Apart from Cernunnos), I appreciate the views and the chat. TV isn't my main off duty hobby because there is so much reality shite on most
channels....but just occassionally, after mining through loads of crap, you can come up with something good and I perfer to watch it when
I want to. Knock the Beeb all you want, but Frozen Planet and Earth Flight was top notch and although the licence fee irritates the crap
out of me, I'm content that we get stuff like this on a regular basis. I have too much to do in my spare time than to 'mong' it in front of the
crystal bucket, as Clive James calls the Telly.

Blaming the Govt ? Well, I'm sure that there has been a great deal of commercial interest in the FM Wave Band and I guess it's correct that
it should be exploited.....but not at the expence of quality, which seems to be the case at the moment.

My question was genuine, TV fault ? Weather, or simply Govt ineptitude. After the posts received, I'm inclined to believe that the low
power theory is likely, which is down to the operatores / geeks who decided on what quantity of juice to use until switch over time.

I'm surprised at cernunus's remarks because he's usually quite a wit, so I'll put it down to the onset of dementia because he's probably
searching for the NAFFI where he's usually at his best.

I detest digital and want analogue back, if a butterfly farts the picture fucks up, never got that with the old system.
NAAFI not NAFFI

Yep, got me there. The NAAFI. My degrees in English Literature and Language should be
handed back forurth / firth / forthwith.

the problem at the moment is that two signals are being broadcast ie anolouge and digital, untill the anouloge signal is switched of completly this is going to be an ongoing problem. the aerial is having to share two signals and therefore not as strong as it should be. hopefully things should improve once this is done. however the lower range signal is to be sold to mobile phone companys, they will then use this for the introduction of 4g signal for mobile and broadband. so it could be a case of the signal once again being crap. personally i hate the digital free channels they have never been of a good enough standerd thats why im happy to pay for sky. nothing worse than watching a program then it cuts out and freezes.

Bit of an update here... I had the switchover 10 days ago now and I'm still on my same old aireial er areial, aerial, ha! Aerial that's the one. Since the switchover I haven't noticed any lost signal or freezing picture or any of the stuff that I used to get. I had to retune the box of course, which only took moments but overall I've had no problems. I can only imagine that the power has been turned up, like the bloke on the radio said would happen.


As a side issue, I tried to find this thread using the search function and got nowhere. The search function is naff, which must explain why so many topics get multi-posted. Not only that, but some of the thread titles are misleading. So unless someone wants to read through loads of threads physically searching, it's easier just to not bother searching. Just an observation.

being brought up in the days of wireless, betamax and 8 track cassettes you no doubt will understand where i am coming from. I bought two HD tvs in the hope that once we converted to digital i could receive HD progs.
I got Freeview built in and dolby stero to boot . So why cant i get bbc hd or any other type of hd, other than on my computer which i bought for work? .