Going digital tv

accymel · 25-11-2006, 11:05

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.

garinda · 25-11-2006, 11:23

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.

Sparkologist · 25-11-2006, 11:26

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.

Sparkologist · 25-11-2006, 11:28

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

What, on sheep???

accymel · 25-11-2006, 11:46

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Originally Posted by Sparkologist

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.

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

fc:stanley · 25-11-2006, 13:05

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Originally Posted by accymel

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.

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.

chav1 · 25-11-2006, 13:08

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

WillowTheWhisp · 25-11-2006, 14:25

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Originally Posted by accymel

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

Maybe the wind has caught it and moved it slightly?

cherokee · 25-11-2006, 14:58

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

shillelagh · 25-11-2006, 15:07

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.

garinda · 25-11-2006, 15:14

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

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.

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.

garinda · 25-11-2006, 15:15

Plus you'll get Channel 5.

K.S.H · 25-11-2006, 15:24

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

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.

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

accymel · 25-11-2006, 16:30

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Maybe the wind has caught it and moved it slightly?

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

accymel · 25-11-2006, 19:10

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Originally Posted by accymel

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

just gone mental again so bad i've had to turn the tv off its that annoying

i payed for crap viewing today...tell me who gets booted off the x factor i have no analogue either

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