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Juliand:
Any experts on this please?

We have good signal strength 95 - 100%, but on some channels the bit rate is quite high and we get pixelating. I have by-passed a splitter (so just one on to one connection now) and that has improved it but still have this problem. Any thoughts pls? we are served by a repeater transmitter in Westbourne, but the main transmitter is Isle of Wight, but because of our location, in a dip, we have to use the Westbourne one, with fewer channels on freeview

Cheers

colesey:
We have recently had similar problems arising from Freeview changing the channels used from their local transmitter. Basically the +1 HD programmes were shunted off to a different frequency for which the reception in our area is marginal. The TV guy has bypassed the splitter / fitted a new aerial / checked everything over and whilst the channels now all show up after retuning, some pixelation remains.

Juliand:

--- Quote from: colesey on May 15, 2018, 10:51:02 am ---We have recently had similar problems arising from Freeview changing the channels used from their local transmitter. Basically the +1 HD programmes were shunted off to a different frequency for which the reception in our area is marginal. The TV guy has bypassed the splitter / fitted a new aerial / checked everything over and whilst the channels now all show up after retuning, some pixelation remains.

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Thanks for sharing that. My concern is that we could do pretty much the same, but still end up with the pixelation. Some days it's fine; other days it's not, and seems worse in the mornings (?). It used to be ok, even though we are in a poor reception spot, but started a few days before the recent re-tune messages.

I might try an amplifier thingy up in the loft (aerial is on roof) to see if that improves things on the run to the TV aerial socket. I've also tried a tv in different room aerial sockets to rule out a bad connection in the lounge, but they are all the same....

Thanks for the info

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