BBC4 reception breaks up, others seem OK

I have a new freeview box and a decent new rooftop aerial, with a
booster because I wanted the telly in another room, away from the main
aerial wall point.

The freeview picture is quite good for bbc1, 2, itv, etc, but for some
reason, when I watch BBC4, the picture freezes/breaks
up/pixelates/disappears quite often. (It usually starts off OK, but
then goes a bit funny after about half an hour or so.)

I live in a fairly rural part of Dorset.

Any thoughts would be very interesting.

Thank you, regards, dnw.

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The freeview picture is quite good for bbc1, 2, itv, etc, but for some
reason, when I watch BBC4, the picture freezes/breaks
up/pixelates/disappears quite often. (It usually starts off OK, but
then goes a bit funny after about half an hour or so.)


You may find a few clues if you scroll back to the thread I started on the
14/10/05 "Sandy Heath & BBC4(or lack of)" lots of helpful suggestions, and
I did clear my problem.

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm

I think I might have an aerial problem then (relating to Mux B)

The installer put the new aerial on the roof before I bought my
freeview box - I wonder if he "tuned it in" for analogue rather than
digital signals (if that makes technical sense?)

Also, one of the aerial "metal bits" looks slightly wonky looking at it
from the ground.

I have rebooted and rescanned the freeview box - if that doesn't fix it
by 7pm ish, when BBC4 starts, then I guess I'll need to get an engineer
round to see if the aerial has been correctly installed - I won't get
the original guy back because he was obnoxious.

Thanks, dnw.

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I have a new freeview box and a decent new rooftop aerial, with a
booster because I wanted the telly in another room, away from the main
aerial wall point.

The freeview picture is quite good for bbc1, 2, itv, etc, but for some
reason, when I watch BBC4, the picture freezes/breaks
up/pixelates/disappears quite often. (It usually starts off OK, but
then goes a bit funny after about half an hour or so.)

I live in a fairly rural part of Dorset.

It's the cows, you know.

Mike

digital tv in another room .......

Try removing the booster, does Freeview box now work reasonably ok with
aerial plugged straight into it? Ok, then ....

If so, then you might just extend the aerial lead to where you want it,
sans amplifier.

Or you might use a "link plus" solution, needs a few bits, but will let
you watch and control the Freeview box remotely from elsewhere in
house, see www.tvlink.co.uk (note, this solution requires a Freeview
receiver having internal modulator, ie, picture received via tv set
aerial socket, not SCART lead!).

Spiney, it seems to be behaving lately, so no probs at the moment..

spiney wrote:
digital tv in another room .......

Try removing the booster, does Freeview box now work reasonably ok with
aerial plugged straight into it? Ok, then ....

If so, then you might just extend the aerial lead to where you want it,
sans amplifier.

Or you might use a "link plus" solution, needs a few bits, but will let
you watch and control the Freeview box remotely from elsewhere in
house, see www.tvlink.co.uk (note, this solution requires a Freeview
receiver having internal modulator, ie, picture received via tv set
aerial socket, not SCART lead!).