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| Thread ID: 92694 | 2008-08-19 01:43:00 | City TV Problems | mortonf (14100) | PC World Chat |
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| 698528 | 2008-08-19 01:43:00 | Please excuse my very green first posting! I have an apartment in the Heritage Hotel Auckland City. I am having problems with TV reception. Building Manager says there is nothing they can do about it. Essentially, the problem is the hotel provides a selected number of channels only. TV aerial plugs into wall socket which goes to main hotel 'box' which gives me: Sky movies, Chinese TV, foggy TV 1, 2 3. I want to improve reception and be able to watch Maori TV as well as any other free to air TV channels I don't currently get! I haven't tried rabbit ears as the building manager tells me there will be too much interference. I've asked Sky for decoder they say it won't help. I've asked to put in Freeview - no individual dedicated aerial. I've read all the postings about the amplifiers not working. And, I am about to test another small TV just to make sure it's not the TV set problem. So, can anyone help me please? Please bear in mind that I am not 'techy' at all. Thanks. | mortonf (14100) | ||
| 698529 | 2008-08-19 01:56:00 | I think you have to get a complete new aerial setup for sky and all that. The price would be terrible. New line/decoder/box etc, or maybe you could get a tvcard on your computer and see if you could watch sky online? | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 698530 | 2008-08-19 08:07:00 | What you have now is a master antenna distributed setup. Usually off air channel are picked up and redistributed through the cabling of the building to each room. How to improve things? The Answer is Freeview HD with a small indoor type antenna. Get hold of a Freeview HD terrestrial box, plug it in see if you can load the digital channels. If not they are probably being filtered out of the system. A small indoor antenna should work. |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 698531 | 2008-08-19 10:03:00 | i can't remember if its one of the hotels i worked on years ago. if tv 1,2,3 is snowy then its possible to fix it, usually aerial/amp problem or connection problem. if its ghosty/interfence then it can be a major job, especially if there is new buildings going up near by. it depends a bit on the system they have. if the channels are only veiwed through a set top box then they proberly have one of the movie link tye sytems, usually digital and has things like movies on demand etc. if channels can be veiw directly on tv then they will have the more common system as apsattv has mentioned. if so one common problem they get is broken lead to the tv or wall plate. i would first check what the other apartments tv are like. |
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