Geekzone: technology news, blogs, forums
Guest
Welcome Guest.
You haven't logged in yet. If you don't have an account you can register now.


Forums › TiVo › TiVo not receiving TV3, Four, prime, choice - HELP
snowkiwi

160 posts

Master Geek
+1 received by user: 4


#129034 1-Sep-2013 21:00
Send private message

On TiVo
I can get TV1 , TV2 and their +1s but almost all others come up with "trying to find the signal" message on the screen, or a pixelated image. and their EPG has "to be announced" with no channel name!!

I've tried rescanning channels , signal strength on the bad channels are 75 ish. Good channels are 85ish.

On our freeview TV I get all channels no problem and they are clear.

Both TVs are fed off the same signal Amp/booster and same aerial. 

Has anyone had this problem today?


Edit -  : Ok  all channel listings are all there now. Dont know what happened..  

But stil bad pixilation reception/recording on TV3 and +1  and on prime and choice.




"Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see"-Edgar Allan Poe...and my Dad (Words I live by).
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"-Many...and my Dad (Words I should live by ;) )
If it ain't broke, fiddle with it ... till its broke! (Words I should really not live by)

Create new topic

This is a filtered page: currently showing replies marked as answers. Click here to see full discussion.

snowkiwi

160 posts

Master Geek
+1 received by user: 4


  #909048 7-Oct-2013 08:49
Send private message

Solved the problem finally (or the Aerial repair guy did ;) )- I had at some stage thought: "Hey we dont use VHS anymore so why power it. So I unplugged it. But didn't think that because the RF lead looped through the VHS box that un-powering it would attenuate the signal enough to hurt the signal quality. And because all other house TVs and sky box were BEFORE the de-powered VHS box, but my TiVo box was AFTER it only affected the TiVo. For some reason the 666MHz channels but not the rest were more affected. (Maybe because thats the evil frequency - 666 !! :)

Edit: The reason for the bad image quality Im told is: The 666MHz frequency being at the top of the spectrum in my area, requires more line of sight so is attenuated by the houses and hills a bit more. Which was just enough loss of signal to push the tuner over the line. ie it couldn't compensate any more and so bad image.

Anyway that fixed it but I replaced the very old rusted mast and twice broken/repaired UHF aerial - and chucked the VHF.

Lesson learnt.




"Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see"-Edgar Allan Poe...and my Dad (Words I live by).
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"-Many...and my Dad (Words I should live by ;) )
If it ain't broke, fiddle with it ... till its broke! (Words I should really not live by)

Create new topic








Geekzone Live »

Try automatic live updates from Geekzone directly in your browser, without refreshing the page, with Geekzone Live now.


Updates »

Are you subscribed to our RSS feed? You can download the latest headlines and summaries from our stories directly to your computer or smartphone by using a feed reader.








RSS feeds
Main feed
Forums feed
Copyright
©2002-2026 Geekzone®
Site features
Geekzone BI dashboard
Geekzone Badges
Geekzone Status Page

 

Site Information
Subscribe to Geekzone
Privacy Statement
Forum Usage Guidelines (FUG)
Advertising
Trademark and copyright