Beeb4 last night
 

We were watching "The Light Fantastc" on BBC 4 on our fairly new
Pannylcd tv. It was constanly interrupted by a black screen and a
rectangular box containg the words "no service". We switched to the
signal from our old Pioneer DVD recorder and had no further problems.
We only have the one aerial and it's new so why was the signal OK via
the DVD via the TV but not on the TV itself? Anyone know?

Bob

Beeb4 last night
 

"Noggin" wrote in message
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We were watching "The Light Fantastc" on BBC 4 on our fairly new Pannylcd
tv. It was constanly interrupted by a black screen and a rectangular box
containg the words "no service". We switched to the signal from our old
Pioneer DVD recorder and had no further problems. We only have the one
aerial and it's new so why was the signal OK via the DVD via the TV but
not on the TV itself? Anyone know?



Maybe you have a borderline signal and the DVD recorder is better able to
handle it, how does the TV receive its signal presumably looped through the
DVD recorder? if it continues to happen try the aerial plugged directly into
the TV and if that doesn't cure it then it's quite possible that the TV
itself may be faulty.

Beeb4 last night
 

Noggin wrote:
We were watching "The Light Fantastc" on BBC 4 on our fairly new
Pannylcd tv. It was constanly interrupted by a black screen and a
rectangular box containg the words "no service". We switched to the
signal from our old Pioneer DVD recorder and had no further problems. We
only have the one aerial and it's new so why was the signal OK via the
DVD via the TV but not on the TV itself? Anyone know?


If I interpret this right, you originally had your aerial connected
directly to the TV but then connected the aerial to the DVD recorder and
from the DVD to the TV but were still using the DTT tuner in your TV.

If that is so, I would suggest that their is some gain in the DVD loop
through path (6dB would be quite reasonable) which made the difference.

This suggests that the signal level from your (new) aerial is marginal.

Unless anybody comes up with anything more inspirational, I'd suggest
that you get your aerial installer back.

Your location/PostCode would help to identify if there are particular
problems in your area.

Read the recent posts he

http://tinyurl.com/y9bljxg

and you will see what help is available to you if you provide the right
details.

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Terry

Beeb4 last night
 

On 26/02/2010 13:57, Noggin wrote:
We were watching "The Light Fantastc" on BBC 4 on our fairly new
Pannylcd tv. It was constanly interrupted by a black screen and a
rectangular box containg the words "no service". We switched to the
signal from our old Pioneer DVD recorder and had no further problems. We
only have the one aerial and it's new so why was the signal OK via the
DVD via the TV but not on the TV itself? Anyone know?

Bob

THANKS FOR THE INTERESTING REPLIES.
The aerial does go to the tv via the dvd recorder.
I checked the signal and quality via the tv set-up menu, all digital
channels show 10 out of 10 on both. Signal is from Mendip, we are about
22 miles away near the top of a hill. We probably have line of sight
from the aerial position above the chimney.
We've never had this problem before, or since come to that. Very odd.
Would splitting the cable to feed the tv and dvd directly help or hinder
do you think?

Bob