My family have been using the same TV cables for plugging into the external aeriel on the roof for probably 15-20 years. Our house has 2 aeriels, one for downstairs and one for the upstairs as they are separate buildings but owned by the family.
Recently the 32" TV downstairs was not getting some channels or if it did some of them would get garbage pixels with crackling sound. A high pitched screech is the best I can describe it on channels such as Russia Today (234) and sometimes on channel 32 (Sony Movies).
We thought it might have been the TV so we got a Samsung 43" to replace it and with the same wire it was not finding as many channels as the upstairs TV. For example, Channel 19 (Dave) was missing and channel 32 was not there. Before changing anything the downstairs tv when scanning would find about 130 channels.
We then decided to try the same cable that the upstairs TV has but downstairs and all of a sudden the downstairs TV found over 200 channels, an increase of 70 channels. There was still some pixellation on Russia Today but now channels like Dave and Sony movies was watchable.
I don't know much about analog cables and tv transmission but can a different cable really find 70+ more channels? Would a different cable purchased recently have like more bandwidth or something to accept channels like Russia Today without any picture or sound distortion?
Recently the 32" TV downstairs was not getting some channels or if it did some of them would get garbage pixels with crackling sound. A high pitched screech is the best I can describe it on channels such as Russia Today (234) and sometimes on channel 32 (Sony Movies).
We thought it might have been the TV so we got a Samsung 43" to replace it and with the same wire it was not finding as many channels as the upstairs TV. For example, Channel 19 (Dave) was missing and channel 32 was not there. Before changing anything the downstairs tv when scanning would find about 130 channels.
We then decided to try the same cable that the upstairs TV has but downstairs and all of a sudden the downstairs TV found over 200 channels, an increase of 70 channels. There was still some pixellation on Russia Today but now channels like Dave and Sony movies was watchable.
I don't know much about analog cables and tv transmission but can a different cable really find 70+ more channels? Would a different cable purchased recently have like more bandwidth or something to accept channels like Russia Today without any picture or sound distortion?