TV gone weird

[{Dakota}]

Hello, hope someone can help me out here;

For the last couple of weeks the sound hasn't matched up to the picture on my TV, which you can imagine can be a little irritating at times. I made sure that everything was pushed into the back of the TV and the Sky+ box but the problem continued.

For a couple of days now, a vague picture of another channel has been showing on my screen. I don't really see anything other than the text in adverts, again, this is getting irritating and again I checked everything was pushed in tight.

I don't know if this is related, but 2 Fridays ago I got home from work and there was no satellite signal. I called Sky who did the obligatory tests but it didn't fix the problem and told me they would send out an Engineer on the Monday. No way was I spending a weekend without Sky, so I went outside, up a ladder and wiggled the 2 cables that come into my house and the Sky came back.

Any ideas what's going on, please?

Thanks

[Ice.Maiden]

Could high winds've moved anything up on the roof? A similar thing happened to a friend's dish, which'd blown ever so slightly away from its fixed position!

[{Dakota}]

Well, there HAD been high winds earlier in the week that I ended up going up the ladder, but because a few days of calm weather had passed before the dodgy signal, I figured it couldn't be that. A satellite dish with delayed reaction maybe??

[Ice.Maiden]

Lol - God knows, but I bet someone'll come up with a better reason. It was just a thought, because my friend was complaining of similar things happening on her TV screen - x

[ELVIS68]

I`ve had my sky+ box for 18 months and it started freezing and wouldn`t play anything on the sky planner

I rang sky and they did the usual down the phone tests etc and nothing happened

They said cos the box is out of warranty it`ll cost �65 for an engineer to come round and fix it

He came round and changed the box without even looking at the old one, apparentely, the old sky+ boxes overheat

[{Dakota}]

High winds was the cause?? If it carries on for much longer, I'm going to reluctantly call an engineer, I just wanted opinions before forking out for that first LOL

[Ice.Maiden]

See! Elvis's come up with a more practical answer - but who knows? Hope it doesn't cost a lot to repair/replace!

[{Dakota}]

OMG! My Sky+ box is about 18 months old too and it didn't play back 2 programs I reccorded over Christmas!

Yep, they were going to charge me �65 for the call out too, but I cancelled it after tottering up that ladder. Did you have to pay for your new box??

[ELVIS68]

You can have the �65 put on your bill, and they give you a new box, and that`ll give you another years warranty from the thieving bastads

[{Dakota}]

Hmmm....that sounds like a plan. I can get the guy to check the connections outside while he's at it too. Did you get a brand new box or a reconditioned one?

[Ice.Maiden]

Get a TV with inbuilt Freeview - no more ugly boxes stuck around the place, no more dishes smiling at you from the wall of your house. OK - so you can't get all the Sky progs - but how many channels DO people want? If it's just for the sport, etc., it seems an expensive way to watch it. x

[ELVIS68]

Brand new

There`s fook all wrong with the wires, the box is fooked goodnight x

[{Dakota}]

Both of my TV's have inbuilt Freeview, I seem to prefer to pay �40 per month for 1000 channels of junk LOL.

If Freeview had some movie channels, Sky 1, Paramount and Living, I'd happily ditch the Sky.

[Ice.Maiden]

Fair dues - I'm just not a telly addict myself. Got about...75 channels maybe, on our TV's - which is more than enough, but I take your point.