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ArchFlameTera · 15th October 2006, 10:07 PM

i got a freeview box from someone few days back, and am wondering if anyone else is having this problem

i tried to watch clerks cartoon last night, and now scarface on ITV4. all the other channels seem fine.

the sound for this channel is horribly bad, sounds shite! but the picture is perfect and i have a good signal?

hooligan · 15th October 2006, 10:29 PM

the problems of digital buddy. slight loss in signal fucks everything up
maybe think of the best place for you arieal to be and retune digibox( if its a small indoor one) or if its a outside and you want it that bad get tayside areials to look at it.

ArchFlameTera · 15th October 2006, 10:45 PM

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Hecate · 15th October 2006, 10:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ArchFlameTera

pile o pish like!

That sucks.
We have Scarface on dvd, borrow it whenever you like

ArchFlameTera · 15th October 2006, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by freakonaleash

That sucks.
We have Scarface on dvd, borrow it whenever you like

actually, you just reminded me. i also have it on dvd. fuck sake!

Tommy Sports · 15th October 2006, 11:01 PM

We have a digital box at our flat too and it's absolutly hopeless. The picture goes pixely and theres horrible static noise about every 20 seconds, we havent even plugged it in in about 3 months.

johnny? · 15th October 2006, 11:12 PM

I don't get digital TV at all, I live off the perth road, probably 'cause i'm at the bottom of a hill

Apparently 80% of Dundee get good digital tv reception..

Buuuullshit.

Tommy Sports · 15th October 2006, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by johnny?

I don't get digital TV at all, I live off the perth road, probably 'cause i'm at the bottom of a hill

Apparently 80% of Dundee get good digital tv reception..

Buuuullshit.

Yeah, im at the bottom of step row, must be a valley of bad signal.

I_got_a_mohawk · 15th October 2006, 11:31 PM

Yet they are making the total switch over to digital . . . wankery, and you'll still need a TV liscense, wankery

krashd · 15th October 2006, 11:34 PM

That's the trouble with digital, you get vastly better quality but it can go tits up so easily. With analogue the signal is just a flood of audio/video nonsense, but atleast if you have a poor reception it is still watchable albeit snowy or hissy, but digital technology involves 1's and 0's being transferred between the transmitter and your aerial at twice the speed of smell and if even a solitary '1' is missing during your bout of Eastenders you get a blocky block of blocks that jerks about the screen.

Digital is ideal if you live somewhere like london where the horizon is a perfect line, but dundee is too hilly, I live in kirkton so myself and most of my neighbours require spacestation-like sculptures instead of aerials just to get channel 5. All I can suggest is an amplifier, you get them from Argos and the like for 19 notes, you plug it into the mains and then it has 1 input for your aerial and usually 4 outputs so you can connect up every room with a telly.

RiseAgainst · 15th October 2006, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by bryter_layter

Yeah, im at the bottom of step row, must be a valley of bad signal.

i live just off Constitution Street and we cant get signal either.

thomasjmaccoll · 15th October 2006, 11:49 PM

well in cupar we don't even get the option yet

daniel_goldbloom · 16th October 2006, 12:29 AM

We were gonna get Freeview for our flat, which is bang in the centre of town, but no joy. Film Four is on it now, and Channel 4 seems to put all its interesting looking documentaries on More 4 now.
I think it's a disgrace that the BBC are using our license fees to invest in programming that many of us cannot watch, it is an absolute outrage.

That was a Daily Mail style over-reaction there, but I feel the point is a valid one.

15th October 2006, 10:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
ArchFlameTera Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Dundonia!!!!!!!!! Posts: 4,685 Band: A Parting Shot (erratic grind madness) + Vulsellum (old school death metal)	fuck cunt freeview wank i got a freeview box from someone few days back, and am wondering if anyone else is having this problem i tried to watch clerks cartoon last night, and now scarface on ITV4. all the other channels seem fine. the sound for this channel is horribly bad, sounds shite! but the picture is perfect and i have a good signal?

15th October 2006, 10:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
hooligan Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,691	the problems of digital buddy. slight loss in signal fucks everything up maybe think of the best place for you arieal to be and retune digibox( if its a small indoor one) or if its a outside and you want it that bad get tayside areials to look at it.

15th October 2006, 10:45 PM	#3 (permalink)
ArchFlameTera Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Dundonia!!!!!!!!! Posts: 4,685 Band: A Parting Shot (erratic grind madness) + Vulsellum (old school death metal)	pile o pish like!

15th October 2006, 11:01 PM	#6 (permalink)
Tommy Sports Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,605 Band: Juliet Kilo	We have a digital box at our flat too and it's absolutly hopeless. The picture goes pixely and theres horrible static noise about every 20 seconds, we havent even plugged it in in about 3 months.

15th October 2006, 11:12 PM	#7 (permalink)
johnny? Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dundee Posts: 1,525	I don't get digital TV at all, I live off the perth road, probably 'cause i'm at the bottom of a hill Apparently 80% of Dundee get good digital tv reception.. Buuuullshit.

15th October 2006, 11:31 PM	#9 (permalink)
I_got_a_mohawk Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Blairgowrie Posts: 4,733 Band: Spengler	Yet they are making the total switch over to digital . . . wankery, and you'll still need a TV liscense, wankery

15th October 2006, 11:34 PM	#10 (permalink)
krashd Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kirktonia Posts: 2,068 Band: Crosby, Stills, Nash, krashd and Young	That's the trouble with digital, you get vastly better quality but it can go tits up so easily. With analogue the signal is just a flood of audio/video nonsense, but atleast if you have a poor reception it is still watchable albeit snowy or hissy, but digital technology involves 1's and 0's being transferred between the transmitter and your aerial at twice the speed of smell and if even a solitary '1' is missing during your bout of Eastenders you get a blocky block of blocks that jerks about the screen. Digital is ideal if you live somewhere like london where the horizon is a perfect line, but dundee is too hilly, I live in kirkton so myself and most of my neighbours require spacestation-like sculptures instead of aerials just to get channel 5. All I can suggest is an amplifier, you get them from Argos and the like for 19 notes, you plug it into the mains and then it has 1 input for your aerial and usually 4 outputs so you can connect up every room with a telly.

15th October 2006, 11:49 PM	#12 (permalink)
thomasjmaccoll Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: 47 millbank, cupar, fife Posts: 1,111	well in cupar we don't even get the option yet

16th October 2006, 12:29 AM	#13 (permalink)
daniel_goldbloom Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Foodieash Posts: 2,278	We were gonna get Freeview for our flat, which is bang in the centre of town, but no joy. Film Four is on it now, and Channel 4 seems to put all its interesting looking documentaries on More 4 now. I think it's a disgrace that the BBC are using our license fees to invest in programming that many of us cannot watch, it is an absolute outrage. That was a Daily Mail style over-reaction there, but I feel the point is a valid one.

16th October 2006, 08:36 AM	#14 (permalink)
^_mincher_^ Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Dundee....originally Irvine. Posts: 1,490