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| Thread ID: 107099 | 2010-02-04 02:26:00 | Freeview terrestrial or satellite | Morgenmuffel (187) | PC World Chat |
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| 855122 | 2010-02-04 10:18:00 | Depends if you got an HD telly or not, and if you can pick up analogue alright. If you've got both, then go for HD. I've got a sat box, just running off a splitter on the sky dish, and it's crystal clear, picked it up off trademe for about $70 incl shipping. My dad's got a freevire HD receiver in his room running off the UHF ant on the roof, miles and miles away from the transmitter but because we've got line of sight, it's fine. ATM it seems D1 is playing up a bit, but a few days ago, I was watching SBS 1 and 2 fine, but I think it's gone now. Unless you've got a legit subscription and a sat box that does IRDETO, you're fresh outta luck for auzzie chan's. Normally, they're on the auzzie spot beam, but for a wee while SBS has been on the NZ+AU beam, unencrypted. I don't know where I'm going with this... |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 855123 | 2010-02-04 19:56:00 | TV1 and TV2 reception only and apparently according to some people if the wind is blowing you may get a very very blurry prime. I didn't expect to get terrestrial, but when I checked on the freeview site t said it was possible, we have an old crt but will be updating sometime in the future | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 855124 | 2010-02-04 20:11:00 | Dead right about Prime, ctv8 as well they dont seem to have such a strong signal as 1 2 & 3 seems strange as it is coming from the same transmitter. Its the digital age Nig, grab it and run with it get a set top box |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 855125 | 2010-02-04 21:49:00 | actually if I can't get prime, i probably cant get terrestrial freeview as they are both uhf aren't they | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 855126 | 2010-02-04 22:32:00 | Dead right about Prime, ctv8 as well they dont seem to have such a strong signal as 1 2 & 3 seems strange as it is coming from the same transmitter. They may be coming from the same location, but they all have their own transmitter, and individual transmitter power may vary. The old terrestrial TV channels are transmitted in bands 1 & 3, and all the newcomers are in the UHF bands which are quite broad, so differences between channels can be marked. Depending on channel frequency, reception conditions can vary also in terms of propagation losses and UHF signals can also be layered (in height) at different channel frequencies. Transmitter power may differ between channels, and propagation conditions including layering may also vary on a daily basis with weather etc. We used to enjoy good reception of Prime on UHF, but in recent times it has become so weak we can rarely watch it, yet the UHF channels above and below it are still rock solid so our antenna is still OK. Raising the antenna or installing a higher gain model may be needed for us to get Prime back. As an example of how perverse TV signals can be, many years back I had a customer who enjoyed full colour on TV3 when her husband wasn't home, but whenever he was home, that channel was in B&W. They had a very strong and clean signal, so we checked the TV thoroughly in the workshop and all seemed to be well, but when we took it back he was home and it was mono again. On a hunch I asked him to back his car out of the carport and as soon as he did, TV3 came up in colour. It turned out that a signal reflection off his car into the antenna on the other side of the house caused a tiny timing difference in part of the TV3 signal and that was enough to kill the colour. It was tolerance issue in the colour decoder chip that was the technical cause, but without the signal change introduced by the car it would not have been a problem. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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