Freeview

[potty64]

What am I doing wrong? My brother is in a care home. To make his life more bearable, I bought a Freeview box from Tesco's. I transferred the aerial from the TV to the Freeview box (The other end is 'in' the wall - no doubt to an outside aerial of the Home) and then plugged in the scart lead from Freeview to TV. I can get quite a few stations but the sound is spasmodic. Why?

[DanFlo]

Check your scart lead, i had the same problem.

[Buenchico]

The usual cause of such problems is insufficient signal strength from the aerial. Try adding a good quality signal booster, such as this one, and then doing a complete rescan of the channels:
http://www.maplin.co....gle&u=223504&t=module
(You can buy cheaper boosters but most of them don't provide the same level of signal gain as the Maplin product).

Chris

[potty64]

I've checked the scart lead and it's fine. As regards the one way plug in aerial to strengthen the signal, I'm not sure how that can work in the care home. How and where do I plug it in? (Am a bit ignorant on these sort of things!)