anyone else having problems with Spanish DTV

[dunmovin]

Over the last week we have "lost" several channels on Spanish digital TV. (Divinty,La sexta 3, xpl, La sexta,tele cinco, cuatro and several others.0

Their has been no change in our equipment or aerials, but the channels do not work and come across as "scrambled"

We had 46 channels and are now down to 22, 4 are duplicates and only in Spainsh, 2 are sales channels.

[sat]

No problems here.

Although I wonder if the problem of the heat and humidity has been causing a few drops in signals - has happened in the past.

Do your neighbours have the same problems? IF so then its a tranmistter / area issues, if not then its an issue with your system.

[xabiachica]

Originally Posted by sat

No problems here.

Although I wonder if the problem of the heat and humidity has been causing a few drops in signals - has happened in the past.

Do your neighbours have the same problems? IF so then its a tranmistter / area issues, if not then its an issue with your system.

we've had a few channels pixellating now & then- haven't lost any though


dunmovin - have you tried re-installing the channels? I seem to remember having to do that once when we lost some a year or so back - the tele found them but they were all on different numbers for some reason

[Alcalaina]

No problems here. The only one that pixellates occasionally is Canal Sur.

[Stravinsky]

We've got SKY HD here, and in certain weather conditions we can experience some losses as well. HD channels are certainly better than non HD for reception, but we still lose it now and again for very short periods, usually when it is hot and hazy

[snikpoh]

Originally Posted by dunmovin

Over the last week we have "lost" several channels on Spanish digital TV. (Divinty,La sexta 3, xpl, La sexta,tele cinco, cuatro and several others.0

Their has been no change in our equipment or aerials, but the channels do not work and come across as "scrambled"

We had 46 channels and are now down to 22, 4 are duplicates and only in Spainsh, 2 are sales channels.

We've found that a number of channels have moved. We did a rescan on our TDT system and a lot of them have reappeared - but not all.

Some that we used to get (mainly radio stations) are not appearing even though we can still receive them on our radio.

[Camposat]

Originally Posted by dunmovin

Over the last week we have "lost" several channels on Spanish digital TV. (Divinty,La sexta 3, xpl, La sexta,tele cinco, cuatro and several others.0

Their has been no change in our equipment or aerials, but the channels do not work and come across as "scrambled"

We had 46 channels and are now down to 22, 4 are duplicates and only in Spainsh, 2 are sales channels.

Hi Dunmovin. Whereabouts are you? In the heat of August some of the frequencies can basically distort a bit, thus reducing their strength. This happened very badly with the main mast near Mijas a couple of years ago so some of the channels were duplicated to other stonger freqs. just so that they didn´t loose any in Malaga capital. But today this is better controlled, now that the old analog channels have all gone. I strongly suspect that your aerial is of slightly inferior quality or slightly out of line for these transmissions and thus only noticable when signal weakens a tad. It´s like when some people loose some sky channels when others don´t. The first factors for consideration with any fault are quality of the equipment used and quality of the installation made, after that you have to look up into the sky, as the sources of the signals come from very expensive and super reliable transmitters which rarely fail. So any decent tv engineer who knows his ass from his elbow should be able to sort this out in very little time. /SNIP/. Hope you get there Dunmovin.

[thrax]

If I don't tune into the Spanish TV service for more than a week, I lose the lot and have to do a re-tune. We got so fed up with doing it Spanish TV is no longer part of our home. SKY TV instead. Sorry Spanish TV but we don't miss you especially all the manic chat shows.

[dunmovin]

Originally Posted by Camposat

Hi Dunmovin. Whereabouts are you? In the heat of August some of the frequencies can basically distort a bit, thus reducing their strength. This happened very badly with the main mast near Mijas a couple of years ago so some of the channels were duplicated to other stonger freqs. just so that they didn´t loose any in Malaga capital. But today this is better controlled, now that the old analog channels have all gone. I strongly suspect that your aerial is of slightly inferior quality or slightly out of line for these transmissions and thus only noticable when signal weakens a tad. It´s like when some people loose some sky channels when others don´t. The first factors for consideration with any fault are quality of the equipment used and quality of the installation made, after that you have to look up into the sky, as the sources of the signals come from very expensive and super reliable transmitters which rarely fail. So any decent tv engineer who knows his ass from his elbow should be able to sort this out in very little time. /SNIP/. Hope you get there Dunmovin.

We are close to Alcoy/Cocentaina. We have reset the tuner several times but still only get the 18 channels. I don't think heat and humidity are factors, as both have dropped quite a bit here.

We have 2 dtv ariels on the roof, one points south and the other south west.

[snikpoh]

Originally Posted by dunmovin

We are close to Alcoy/Cocentaina. We have reset the tuner several times but still only get the 18 channels. I don't think heat and humidity are factors, as both have dropped quite a bit here.

We have 2 dtv ariels on the roof, one points south and the other south west.

We're not far from you - just 'the other side of the hill' and we're fine.

Have you tried another TDT box? or is TDT integrated into the TV?