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We're experiencing horrendous problems with (some) Freeview channels, ironically mostly with what are the "terrestrial" channels, 3, 4, and 5, which have vanished completely. We've got a 42" Samsung with all the bells and whistles and, following an earlier post when Cwatters told me that the signal from Sutton Coldfield was crap at the best of times, we've had two aerial blokes here who have, variously, replaced old cables and fitted a line-booster, both of which worked for about a day and then might just as well not have been there.
To watch 3, 4, or 5, we have to go through the recorder and watch via terrestrial and its rubbish picture quality.
I've gone through the channel search procedure many times (about once a day, in the vain hope that whoever threw the switch on the transmitter originally would realise what he'd done and put it back again) but those channels are still nowhere to be found. What can be had is so badly pixellated (with broken audio to boot) that they're unwatchable.
Yet all the BBC channels are fine. What do they know that the commercial operators don't??
With the full switch over so far away we're now seriously considering going the satellite route, which I've always resisted on principle - why pay for more channels when we only watch a fraction of what we can get now for free (OK, for the licence fee)? There's also the question of recording a different channel to the one we're watching.
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