Freeview

[DaisyNonna]

Just turned on TV so I would remember to record Chelsea. All channels (so far up to 10)
are blank apart from a message saying; "Freeview signal quality or too low level." Aargh! Now what can I do to rectify this?

[carolegif]

Not a lot you can do apart from get Sky or Virgin. Yesterday I could only get BBC channels as all ITV had poor or no signal.
So much for this wonderful digital TV that was supposed to be so much better than analogue!

[Postdog]

were you getting them before?

[Buenchico]

Step 1:
Walk into your garden and look upwards. It's been very windy lately and you might find that your aerial has fallen down or is pointing in the wrong direction. (I suggested this to a questioner in one of my earliest posts on this site. He went outside and found his aerial lying in his garden!).

Step 2:
Check that everything between your aerial and your TV is correctly plugged in. That might just mean checking that the aerial is properly plugged into the socket but, if there are any splitters or amplifiers in the cable, you'll need to check those as well. (If there's an amplifier, check that it's plugged in and working!).

Step 3 (if needed):
Call an aerial fitter!
(Look for the 'CAI Plus' logo in his advertising).

Chris

[DaisyNonna]

Thanksl Looks like a call to an aerial fitter.

[Buenchico]

For Carolegif:
If you've not already got a signal booster, go out and buy one. If you have, get an aerial fitter to upgrade your aerial. (Digital TV signals are bundled into 'multiplexes', each of which is on a different frequency. You ideally need a different aerial to 'resonate' with each frequency but that's not practical, so any aerial is likely to be a better match to some multiplexes than to others. Yours is fairly well-matched to the BBC multiplex but not to the one which carries the ITV channels).

[Postdog]

It is an OK system. I get brill reception and I'm well happy with what I get. My only "gripe" is that I have recently moved from the London area to the midlands (where analogue has been switched off, here anyway) and I did notice that ITV1+1 is Meridian rather than Angla, and if it has to be different I'd rather ITV London (same main programmes but news is different)

[bimbo123456]

Watch terrestrial. Chelsea is on this....

[mike11111]

Although I have absolutely no problem with digital TV at the moment I am dreading the time when we change over (we are the last area in the country to do so). I have heard so many horror stories that I wonder if this is just another example of "better means worse".

[Hopkirk]

My Mother in law couldn't get any freeview signal before the changeover, but gets quite a few channels now, so it's not all bad.