Caris Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 Is it only mine that goes funny ALL the time? My Sammy and Sony LCD have been set up in 3 diffrent houses and each house the picture has never been set. Ive just watched shamless and skins and the picture is fine for a few mintues then went off for 30 seconds and just repeats that cycle, they say there gonna turn analoge(sp) TV off in a few year but theres no way people can watch digital like this. Discuss.
Rummy Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 Do you have flourescent lights in your house, and have people been turning them on/off? My freeview box was expensive(but i got it for free cos my sister bought it ) and it's a bit of a shitbox, screws up all the time, came with a scart lead that didn't fit, and the one I have no has recently seemed to be falling out kind of. The picture sort of flys constantly up/down/left/right sort of thing, one of them directions, and I have to get up and wiggle the scart plugs a bit to sort it out. It doesn't have any sort of inbuilt volume control either, and the control it has will only work with another JVC tv(thats what make it is), so I have to have both to hand, bit inconvienient. What make is yours, and how much was it?
Caris Posted February 28, 2007 Author Posted February 28, 2007 It's built into my TV, and yeah its a piss take, Skins is on as i speak and i cant watch it cuase its that bad...
4q2 Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 We cant use freeview where I live as the signal is not good enough, even Channel 5 doesnt receive well. Luckily that isnt a problem as I have cable, although I dont know why I bother because 99.9% of everything televised these days is shite anyway.
Rummy Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Stupid me, I'm a bit of a retard, you said what it was already. I'm missing skins?! I'm watching Man Stroke Woman, I can't believe I just missed skins. I find that flourescent lights going on and off seem to screw my box up, I recently found out something which would imply it's because they cause small surges when turned on and off, and some freeviews are a bit sensitve to it, but I doubt that'd be the case with a TV one. I've heard that some parts of the country can't recieve it very well at all, but I dunno where I'm getting this from...
Caris Posted February 28, 2007 Author Posted February 28, 2007 Ah this sucks, Surley is analoge 1-5 is ok Digital should be...
Daft Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 You might require a new tv aerial. (Called something like a broad-range aerial?) We had to change ours because the box was just not picking up the signal properly at kept scrabbling the picture.
nekunando Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 ..We get a good signal down in our living room, and my brother gets a good signal up in his bedroom at the front of the house.. but I can't get a signal in my room up at the back of the house
mr_bogus Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 This sounds a bit wrong to me if it's actually how all freeview boxes work, but the customer support person once mentioned if the box's receiver is too strong, it picks up a source further away than it should, and get a weak / intermittent signal. Doesn't sound logical tho...
Nintenchris Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 It doesnt seem to matter where you live in the UK ... you can still get a crap signal on freeview... even if you know for a fact that theres a TV mast in your area. Take my house.. its impossible to get a signal with an indoor aerial. The signal that we get from the one on the roof is great tho .. sometimes! You only need a leaf to fall outta a tree across the road and it seems to get the jitters even when the box is saying its got a good signal.
Guest Stefkov Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 One thing to check is the coaxil (?) cable thats connecting from your tv to the plug in the wall if thats what your home is like, most are. I had problems with my Freeview, built into my Sammy, the pictures stuttered loads the sound scratched, couldnt stand it. Plus I was getting less than half the channels I should get. I dont even think that I'm getting all the channels now. Anyway, my cable was broke at one end. The small round metal connector thing was broken off. it was probably not connecting properly. So I went and found another one it was too small so I used an extension cable. And now it works a treat. Splendid watching Scrubs on E4 at midnight. Plus CSI on Five US. Thats my sotry on my freeview.
Fields Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 If you struggle to get a decent signal with Freeview, maybe Freesat would be better? http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/
Caris Posted February 28, 2007 Author Posted February 28, 2007 £150! i could get a new arial and fitted for £80-100.
Platty Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 I get a good signal for Freeview in my house, however we only have it in the spare room on the ground floor as in the living room (1st floor) and my bedroom (2nd floor) we have Sky
Guest Jordan Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 From what i've heard, Sky are pulling their channels from freeview because they don't make them any money. Bastards..
nekunando Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 From what i've heard, Sky are pulling their channels from freeview because they don't make them any money. Bastards.. ..but.. Sky Sports News.. I need it..
Fierce_LiNk Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 From what i've heard, Sky are pulling their channels from freeview because they don't make them any money. Bastards.. Good job I don't use freeview anymore, as that would piss me off. As /nando/ says, sky sports news! Need it. I have a freeview box at home, and I think my brother has one in his room. Apparantly from it occassionally freezing or other annoying niggles like that, it's pretty sound. I'm a bit annoyed that you can't plug a portable aerial into it and get it to work that way, and that forced me to get NTL, otherwise I'd still be using it now.
Guest Jordan Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Err... and they might be pulling support from Virgin Media (aka NTL: Telewest)
Ramar Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 ..but.. Sky Sports News.. I need it.. So do I!!! ;_; I too have freeview problems. Tends to be ITV2-ITV4, E4 and some other rubbish channels that mess up. Some times picture drops out, but I put it on BBC1 and let it spaz out and in 10 seconds it settles and I return to what ever channel I want.
Fierce_LiNk Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Err... and they might be pulling support from Virgin Media (aka NTL: Telewest) .....you have got to be kidding me. If they pull sky sports news and/or sky one, I will be mega pissed.
Platty Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Yeah they are pulling it from Virgn also. But why should Sky let other companies have their channels? We pay enough for our TV licence so the BBC should sort something out instead of a load crap. They should get us better programming and better channels such as a BBC Sport Channel and a BBC Movie Channel. But instead we get BBCFour and BBC Parliament :/
Guest Jordan Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Well, you know all those UKTV channels? and Living channel? Virgin owns those and they're on Sky. Basically, Sky now wants double the amount of money it asked previously and both companies just aren't budging, either way someones gunna lose something.
Platty Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Those UKTV channels wont be a big loss to sky really. I personally never really watch them. So I guess Virgin have more to lose with not getting Sky One etc.
Guest Jordan Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 That doesn't mean Virgin can't buy the rights to programs that Sky has, only not to air but to have on its on demand service. Sky has no rights to things like that.
Platty Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Oh of course but Sky will always pay over the odds to beat the competition to get certain programs just like Channel 4 (E4) do.
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