[TV] Freeview- advice required

[Algernon]

This will sound like BS but just spin or pull out the aerial connector a little bit where it connects to your tv.
My Samsung Smart tv has issues on some channels at different times. I just go over and have a little twiddle and it always sorts the picture.
Why? How? I have no idea. The missus did it once and I laughed at her but it genuinely sorted the problem.

N.B this is not a "fluff on the line, blow down it" landline telephone prank.

 

[CheeseRolls]

Buy a basic indoor aerial,usually about £10,and move it round the flat till you find the best signal.The communal one is probably pointed to Mecca.

Probably makes sense ...if you believe the Earth is flat.

 

[R. Slicker]

Get an aerial installer to put a meter on your cable and see what needs to be done from there, a free view box, bt box, you view box etc all rely on a good aerial signal.
Go to the Digitaluk website, put in your postcode and house number, tick the detailed view box and enter. This will tell you what transmitter is best in your area and how good the signals should be.


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[swindonseagull]

Why do you have to return it? We had Sky for 12 months thanks to [MENTION=181]Blackadder[/MENTION] and then cancelled it. We still have two Sky boxes. If they needed a repair you have to pay someone yourself as it is your box, so why are Sky asking for it?

All new boxes are now sky property and do not belong to you, if a sky box goes wrong Sky repair it...

 

[Coldeanseagull]

I've just got rid of Virgin media and become a cord cutter. Because I'm very tight with money, I trialled homemade aerials. I made a fractal, a Gray hoverman and a double '0'. All have given excellent results for freeview. A matching transformer(balun) cost £2.50 on ebay, an inline signal booster-because Coldean needs a higher gain and the wife wanted an unbroken ITVBe- was £2.99. 1/2 hour on each aerial and I had better results than my loft antenna

 

[Two Professors]

Probably makes sense ...if you believe the Earth is flat.

Worked fine in Oldbury,but Sutton Coldfield transmitter is very powerful.Perhaps you will get a decent signal when you catch up to the 21st century,but then the South Coast has always lagged behind on technology,and understanding how to use it.Too much emphasis on yurt building and yoghurt knitting.

 

[CheeseRolls]

Worked fine in Oldbury,but Sutton Coldfield transmitter is very powerful.Perhaps you will get a decent signal when you catch up to the 21st century,but then the South Coast has always lagged behind on technology,and understanding how to use it.Too much emphasis on yurt building and yoghurt knitting.

21st century Oldbury? - now there's a thing. Not even in Birmingham is the prof a Yam Yam?

 

[colonies man]

Probably makes sense ...if you believe the Earth is flat.

You mean its not

 

[East Staffs Gull]

You mean its not

I’ve finally accepted that the Earth is indeed flat, having been won over by the compelling evidence. I’m now struggling to work out where the centre of the Earth is.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Even though I live in Essex I still get the South East BBC rather than East Anglia. Which is nice because I am not interested in Norwich...which is the only place they talk about on the local dross.

 

[dazzer6666]

Annoyingly if you have Sky Q, the box remains the property of Mr Murdoch, and he wants £140 if you don’t give it back ��

Easy enough to pick up an HD box - £30 on Ebay from reputable suppliers ?

 

[Two Professors]

21st century Oldbury? - now there's a thing. Not even in Birmingham is the prof a Yam Yam?

No,but I had a friend (sadly recently departed) who lived in the flats near Sandwell & Dudley station,and that is how we got a decent picture on his Freeview.Nothing wrong with yamyams-most of them have stopped eating human flesh with crackling.

 

[Oscar]

I'd love to dump Virgin Media for TV but we can't pick up a freeview signal at all as outdoor aerial is not possible and indoor signal is awful.

Is there a box that allows freeview via broadband only?

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Ask the freeholder/landlord if the aerial needs realigning. Digital signals can be quite temperamental if it doesn't point in exactly the right direction.

Not disagreeing exactly but I've never found this. My bedroom TV has run off metal coat hangers for years (classy huh). It probably helps that I'm in a built-up area of London with the signal bouncing off all sorts of sundry buildings round about?