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steveyWN: Terrible time for this to happen when I want to watch the All Whites in HiDef.......Had this decoder (same as Zimwell, I think) since '08 Olympics, and has worked fine right up until now. All of a sudden it's saying "No Signal." Thinking it must be an aerial problem, I bought an indoor UHF Aerial. Checked the RF cable is plugged in firmly. Still No Signal. Nothing has changed to the outside aerial though, so I am lost for ideas. Has worked fine for almost 2 years, and this problem has only occurred now. Any ideas?
graemeh:steveyWN: Terrible time for this to happen when I want to watch the All Whites in HiDef.......Had this decoder (same as Zimwell, I think) since '08 Olympics, and has worked fine right up until now. All of a sudden it's saying "No Signal." Thinking it must be an aerial problem, I bought an indoor UHF Aerial. Checked the RF cable is plugged in firmly. Still No Signal. Nothing has changed to the outside aerial though, so I am lost for ideas. Has worked fine for almost 2 years, and this problem has only occurred now. Any ideas?
Time to take it back to DSE and make them fix it. It's unacceptable that a box costing probably $400 at the time you bought it should totally fail within two years.
steveyWN: Terrible time for this to happen when I want to watch the All Whites in HiDef.......Had this decoder (same as Zimwell, I think) since '08 Olympics, and has worked fine right up until now. All of a sudden it's saying "No Signal." Thinking it must be an aerial problem, I bought an indoor UHF Aerial. Checked the RF cable is plugged in firmly. Still No Signal. Nothing has changed to the outside aerial though, so I am lost for ideas. Has worked fine for almost 2 years, and this problem has only occurred now. Any ideas?
steveyWN: Thanks for all your replies, folks.......Unfortunately I can't find my receipt, so I can't take it back to DSE. It's almost 2 years old anyways......I suspect it would be out of its warranty period.......I'm guessing a 12 month warranty on these boxes. I'm in Petone Bigglz, and I am in line of sight with the transmitter on Mt Kau Kau.......as the crow flies, probably only about 3 or 4 kilometers. No, I haven't had any power surges or anything like that. In any case, the box hasn't "died" as such........it still works. It's just that it's reporting "no signal." I think reading from some of your comments, it's time to buy another one, and this time not a Zinwell.
tristanb: The landlord's fixed the aerial, and our reception problems are now gone. It's interesting that we could still get perfect TV1 in HD (538MHz), but TV3 (570MHz) and Prime (666MHz) were completely gone. I guess that's just the all-or-none nature of digital TV.Remember there are 3 muxes on terrestrial TV / freeview HD and they are all on different frequencies. An aerial will work best over a certain frequency range and as it starts to fail then it's possible it will begin to drop off performance on one of the muxes before the others.
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