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Poor signal quality of TV3 and Bravo

Started this discussion. Last reply by John Hine Jan 10. 4 Replies

We have a two year old Freeview enabled Panasonic Viera TV. Our reception is UHF, line of sight to Mt Kaukau in Wellington. All was working well until a few weeks before Christmas when we began to…Continue

Recording Plus One

Started this discussion. Last reply by John Hine Jan 20, 2016. 2 Replies

Tonight we wanted to watch a programme on TV One and record a simultaneous programme on TV3. No can do because they are in different groups. But we could record the TV3 programme on TV3+1 because we…Continue

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Kapiti Problems with reception

Started this discussion. Last reply by John Hine Jan 20, 2016. 3 Replies

We have a holiday home at Otaki Beach. When Freeview was introduced we bought a Sony Bravia with FreeviewHD and installed a new UHF aerial. This was July 2012 and it worked pretty well (occasional…Continue

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John Hine replied to John Hine's discussion Poor signal quality of TV3 and Bravo
"Thanks for this. We needed to install a cell phone band filter at our holiday home after they put in a new line of site cell tower. (Advantage was that we no longer have to stand in just the right place to make a call :-)) Something like this may be…"
Jan 10
Biggles replied to John Hine's discussion Poor signal quality of TV3 and Bravo
"OK. Then something in the house or nearby may be affecting the quality. Difficult to locate but logical thing to do is turn everything in the house off and then check signal/quality. Start turning things on to locate any interference or quality…"
Jan 10
John Hine replied to John Hine's discussion Poor signal quality of TV3 and Bravo
"Yes, it is the quality that is low. The strength is 5/10 for everyone."
Jan 10
Biggles replied to John Hine's discussion Poor signal quality of TV3 and Bravo
"Almost certainly a problem with your antenna and/or cabling. Natural deterioration  of both due to effect of weather can cause this problem."
Jan 10
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Poor signal quality of TV3 and Bravo

We have a two year old Freeview enabled Panasonic Viera TV. Our reception is UHF, line of sight to Mt Kaukau in Wellington. All was working well until a few weeks before Christmas when we began to suffer pixelation on TV3. It has gotten progressively worse and now that the holidays are almost over I'd like to try to sort the problem.I've also looked at Bravo and the +1 versions of both. All are pixelated. There is no problem with other stations. I have also used the TVs facility to check the…See More
Jan 10

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David Lipscombe replied to David Lipscombe's discussion Reception issues during rain
"The LNB IS 3mths old as the old [SKY] sharp lnb died and a spare new one put to oneside for that…"
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Biggles replied to David Lipscombe's discussion Reception issues during rain
"OK. Have you checked signal strengths on each mux and each of your boxes? Could be a failing LNB…"
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David Lipscombe replied to David Lipscombe's discussion Reception issues during rain
"My Question at the end was when is Prime +1 coming to the Terriestial channels as I have on all my…"
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David Lipscombe replied to David Lipscombe's discussion Reception issues during rain
"Biggles I was viewing those 2 channels on my ALKRIS ALK-FTA1 sat box as I got sick of the problems…"
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Biggles replied to David Lipscombe's discussion Reception issues during rain
"Not only do you need a DVB-S2 box but also a Sky Card as the HD Channels are scrambled. I have an…"
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bundy replied to David Lipscombe's discussion Reception issues during rain
"Hi david can not say about stronger signal with each one,, but you will not get HD freeview…"
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Reception issues during rain

This evening prime +1 disappeared whilst 3+1 was clear as anything and all this was on satellite .…See More
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James Eaton replied to James Eaton's discussion Sound problems on all TVNZ channels
"This may be an intermittent problem there have been several reports from others on the Neighbourly…"
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