Anyway, yesterday I bought a DVTS-1 satellite freeview box to get the freeview satellite feed. I'm in Dunedin live about half way a valley system and simply can't get terrestrial coverage so satellite was necessary. The previous tenants had sky installed so I set the DVTS-1 box up myself using the existing sky dish and cables. The setup went well, all channels were found and the setup menu tells me I have 83% signal (is this good?) and 100% quality.

The problem I'm having is that with many of the channels I get moderate to bad pixelisation of the image whenever there is motion on the screen. This usually happens when the camera is panning or there is a lot of movement. For example when watching the sports highlights on one news the grass of the sports field is made up of a series of mosaic like squares as the camera follows the action of the game. The same happens to people’s faces when they're talking quickly or moving fast, etc... I'm also getting a bit of artefacting on the screen.

I did a forum search before I submitted this post and I have a few questions:
- I understand that a few months ago TVNZ was doing something to the signal to try and fit more features into it's limited bandwidth and this was damaging picture quality, is this still a problem?

- I rang the manufacturer and they suggested it may be due to rain fade. It is raining at the moment and is raining a lot further north towards Canterbury, but my understanding is rain fade only really happens during harsh weather. Is this true or could the light rain over Dunedin be causing my problems?

- The manufacturer also suggested that the sky dish may be old and outdated. Like I said above it's a skytv dish, but it was probably installed at least 3 years ago. Could this be the case?

- Finally, is it possible that I have a dodgy freeview box?

Thanks!