Digitial TV - Suddenley no reception - cold weather?

Vegetarian · 16 Dec 2007 at 17:33

Ive been getting ok TV Reception on Digital and suddenly no Channels ITV, 5 and E4 etc...

Just wondering if cold weather is the villan here - or something wrong with my set up?

Im in Manchester BTW

West · 16 Dec 2007 at 17:35

Bad Weather can cause disruption to Sky.. as its Satelite, but if its Cable or Freeview, it should be okay.. unless the weather is seriously bad..

BigDannyO · 16 Dec 2007 at 17:36

Only needs to get slightly cloudy here and we start to lose channels. If it rains really heavy we get no freeview reception at all... damn digital TV!

carpmaster · 16 Dec 2007 at 18:44

BigDannyO said:
Only needs to get slightly cloudy here and we start to lose channels. If it rains really heavy we get no freeview reception at all... damn digital TV!

It's amazing isn't it? To think that once everyone has Freeview they will lose all their channels when it rains. You'd think they could make the signals waterproof or something

philio16 · 16 Dec 2007 at 19:02

carpmaster said:
It's amazing isn't it? To think that once everyone has Freeview they will lose all their channels when it rains. You'd think they could make the signals waterproof or something

Roll on the next to impossible mass optical cable roll out.....

IAmATeaf · 16 Dec 2007 at 19:03

carpmaster said:
It's amazing isn't it? To think that once everyone has Freeview they will lose all their channels when it rains. You'd think they could make the signals waterproof or something

Encase the signal in a waterproof carrier, I like it

The signal level should get an increase when the analog has been switched off, that's what I've read and they're doing this switch off area by area taking till something like 2010.

Werewolf · 16 Dec 2007 at 19:06

IAmATeaf said:
Encase the signal in a waterproof carrier, I like it

The signal level should get an increase when the analog has been switched off, that's what I've read and they're doing this switch off area by area taking till something like 2010.

Yup, at the moment most areas are broadcasting the digital signal at a fraction of the power of the analogue one to prevent interference with neighbouring areas, eventually they will turn the digital signal up to the same strength as the analogue one is now.

Tobes · 16 Dec 2007 at 19:08

Werewolf said:
Yup, at the moment most areas are broadcasting the digital signal at a fraction of the power of the analogue one to prevent interference with neighbouring areas, eventually they will turn the digital signal up to the same strength as the analogue one is now.

and then we will all get headaches and the risk of cancer will go up!

I joke

superplay · 16 Dec 2007 at 19:25

If you have only lost certain channels I would re-scan your box.

I have a media centre PC and I loose channels everytime they mess around with the channel line up. e.g when they added NUTS TV, I lost BBC1 to BBC3 and a few others.

A re-scan sorts it out for me.

Heliospherez · 16 Dec 2007 at 21:45

I still don't get BBC1,2 or 4 - and have re-scanned numerous times. Probably because N.Ireland is the last to switch to Digital. All the other channles are great and far better quality than analogue.

Can still get them on normal TV, so don't really mind (as we have too much rubbish to watch anyway and spend most of our TV time on CBBs or CH4)