mwg
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Got 2 newish TVs at my Uncle & Aunties. One is a Sony 37" in the snug, the other is a Samsung 40" in the lounge. So both in different rooms but they are running off the same aerial.
The Samsung sometimes struggles to pick up ITV & C4 and if it does it only lasts for a minute or 2 before the picture starts pixelating & breaking up. The Sony picks the signal up no problem. The Sony used to be in the lounge where the Samsung now is & it was fine in there too.
Any ideas what's wrong?
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Sam
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I might be stating the obvious, but maybe the tuner on the Sony is better than the one on the Samsung? Or the Samsung might need a firmware update to fix said issue?
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pow
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Could try a booster, not that I rate them that much but if the signal is just a little weak it might work 
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Ste M
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I'm assuming it's a proper actual aerial, i.e loft/roof installed aerial? And as Sam says, the Samsung one may have an aerial/firmware issue.
Do these modern TV's buffer signal playback?
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Aaron
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I blame Facebook.
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Brett
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We have to have a booster in the attic for all the TV's in the house.
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deano87
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quote:
Originally posted by loafofbrett
We have to have a booster in the attic for all the TV's in the house.
Same as that - our original Viera was shit back in the day till we got everything revised.
Having said that my new LG 37" TV at the misses works of a cheap £5 indoor aerial from Tesco.
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mwg
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Does the booster have to go in attic/near the aerial? Can you get anything that just plugs in to the aerial socket by the TV
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Brett
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quote:
Originally posted by mwg
Does the booster have to go in attic/near the aerial? Can you get anything that just plugs in to the aerial socket by the TV
I've got a big aerial in the attic, then I plug that direct into the booster which is a 6 TV distributor so then I have a cable out of each socket running down to each room 
EDIT: You can get individual boosters tho that just plug into power near your TV. Take a look at Argos, they're cheap.
[Edited on 25-10-2010 by loafofbrett]
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mwg
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Cheers the individual booster sounds more like what I'm after trying.
Seems silly that they have a couple of crappy small Goodmans flat screens, one in the kitchen, one in the bedroom again connected to the same aerial and there signal is fine 
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adiohead
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have you checked the cables?
I did a bad job of putting the connector on my aerial cable last night and signal was awful.
I re-did it and now it's perfect.
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mwg
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Yeah I guess I had better check that be embarrassing if it turns out to be that 
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adiohead
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the copper mesh shit was touching the main core in my first attempt.
Then I tidied it up and the signal cleared.
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