All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Nick: As you are not predicted to get Freeview reception of reasonable quality, I would suggest you get a Freesat+HD box.
You can use a Freesat+HD box with any sort of TV you like.
Yes, you can attach Freesat equipment to your existing LNB package.
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Gerry Lowe: You should already have BBC One Wales and BBC TWO Wales from Wenvoe.
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Doonie: You can use FreeVIEW and FreeSAT at the same time, but you need a aerial for the former and a dish for the latter.
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Tom Howes: Very nice of Arqiva to say that. I'm glad to hear we have some progress, or at least an acknowledgement of the problem.
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Andy: Two possible reasons.
1) Your equipment is on the condemned list - TVs and boxes that do not support the 8k-mode | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
2) More likely, is that you have too much signal. If you have any booster or amplifiers, remove them from your system. If you don't, you may need to fit an attenuator, which you can get for about a fiver.
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Mark Pearson: Right. You will clearly have far too much signal level.
Remove, disconnect and otherwise disable any amplfiers or boosters.
If that doesn't fix it, fit an attenuator.
If that doesn't fix it, replace the "Triax 52 Wideband" for a contract aerial.
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Stewart Crowe: There is, in fact, lots of monitoring equipment, and these automatically create the error logs that you see from the BBC and Digital UK.
However, from time to time, there is an error that is not caught by the system, and because everyone relies on the information from the automatic monitoring being correct, you get the situation where people in the call centre can't see it so they ask you to retune.
As I said above, the reports seem to suggest that the DVB-S2 carrier signal and multiplex are being broadcast, but the multiplex contains either no data, or corrupted data.
I rather suspect that this is an exceptional fault, and thus the problems experienced getting it acknowledged.
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Steve: "I just think they do not want to admit that the upgrading is not being handled properly so they do not have to do anything. "
Technically this is correct, the provision of the broadcast services only have to be at the contracted levels, the responsibility for reception is down to the householder.
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Tuesday 26 April 2011 12:56PM
Peter Spencer: There seems to be a fault on the Nottingham transmitter that the BBC and Digital UK can't see. Please report it to them via BBC - Reception problems .