Can't get freeview

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mikeop99

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#76116 28-Jan-2011 23:25

I have a new Sony Bravia LCD with built in freeview. I currently have managered to get freeview on a power bunny ear with some loop jobby I got from Dick Smiths. But it doesn't last long then it cuts in and out and is annoying.

The flat downstairs (who just moved out so flat is empty) got a sky dish installed and after doing some quick reading discovered that they have a quad LNB on it so as I had an old saturn connection coming in through coax with F connectors I ran a cable from the last port in the LNB (as the other 3 were run to downstairs) and used a f connector joiner to join it to the saturn cable going through the wall.

Went to do a digital tune on the bravia and nothing. Changed it cable to port 3 in the LNB (removed one of theres)) and still no channels at all.

Any thoughts as to why this might not work? I saw a diagram on the freeview site about splitting a sky feed to a freeview decoder and they said you will need the sky decoder still in to send power to the LNB. True? could that be my issue?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers
Mike

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#432486 28-Jan-2011 23:36

LNB gets satellite poormans freeview, you need a UHF antenna to get proper freeview HD.

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#432488 28-Jan-2011 23:44

You have the Freeview|HD terrestrial tuner in the TV plugged into a satellite dish. This relationship isn't going to work out.

Freeview|HD is broadcast from masts on hills or buildings and received by an aerial and fed to a terrestrial receiver. Sky and Freeview Satellite are broadcast from a satellite in space and received by a satellite dish and fed to a satellite receiver. No television has approved Freeview Satellite reception built in. Freeview's satellite broadcasts are not available in HD.

What I think you want is a UHF aerial to plug into your TV. Bunny ears will be too small unless you're close to the broadcast mast.

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#433087 31-Jan-2011 10:49

Yes as above....
The inbuilt freeview tuner in TV's if for the UHF land based freeview HD service only.
There is no tuner inside new tvs for the satellite version of freeview.
So.... Plugging a satellite dish into a freeview HD TV is not going to work.

Worse than that you run the risk of a freeview or sky box somewhere else in the building sending power to the lnb and also into the back of your TV....

You need a proper UHF aerial to provide the signal your TV needs to work with.

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#433092 31-Jan-2011 10:54

Jaxson: Yes as above....
The inbuilt freeview tuner in TV's if for the UHF land based freeview HD service only.
There is no tuner inside new tvs for the satellite version of freeview.
So.... Plugging a satellite dish into a freeview HD TV is not going to work.

Worse than that you run the risk of a freeview or sky box somewhere else in the building sending power to the lnb and also into the back of your TV....

You need a proper UHF aerial to provide the signal your TV needs to work with.

+1 on the trying to mate a rabbit and a chicken

mikeop99

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#435911 6-Feb-2011 16:17

Thanks for the help guys.

Question. If I got something like this (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics-photography/TVs/Cables-aerials/auction-352740678.htm). First of all, would this be ok and could I put it inside the roof or is it line of site?

If I were too mount it on the roof. Could I mount it on the sky dish or will the dish interfere with it?

Thanks again

Mike

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#435924 6-Feb-2011 17:18

mikeop99: Thanks for the help guys.

Question. If I got something like this (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics-photography/TVs/Cables-aerials/auction-352740678.htm). First of all, would this be ok and could I put it inside the roof or is it line of site?

If I were too mount it on the roof. Could I mount it on the sky dish or will the dish interfere with it?

Thanks again

Mike

Complete offtopic here, but can anyone else copy and paste that link and have it work? Firefox just tried to google it for me.

And ontopic, in the roof will not work as well, if you have a metal roof its a no-go, but if you are shooting out the end of a gable or something that is fiber cement or wood then you should be ok, not sure what happens with concrete tiles when they are waterlogged so that might be a problem.

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#435928 6-Feb-2011 17:21

richms: Complete offtopic here, but can anyone else copy and paste that link and have it work? Firefox just tried to google it for me.

That's because Trade Me is down.

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#435929 6-Feb-2011 17:22

richms:
mikeop99: Thanks for the help guys.

Question. If I got something like this (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics-photography/TVs/Cables-aerials/auction-352740678.htm). First of all, would this be ok and could I put it inside the roof or is it line of site?

If I were too mount it on the roof. Could I mount it on the sky dish or will the dish interfere with it?

Thanks again

Mike

Complete offtopic here, but can anyone else copy and paste that link and have it work? Firefox just tried to google it for me.

And ontopic, in the roof will not work as well, if you have a metal roof its a no-go, but if you are shooting out the end of a gable or something that is fiber cement or wood then you should be ok, not sure what happens with concrete tiles when they are waterlogged so that might be a problem.

Link works fine for me :)