My SKY + HD box shows a signal strength of zero on certain potentially
troublesome channels such as CBS Reality and has done every since I got my
1TB Sky HD box about a year ago. CBS Reality one of the first to go if the
dish needs aligning and as far as I am aware I have no problems with the
picture quality and its not breaking up or reporting satellite signal not
being received.

Fortunately the signal quality is over 60% which is the critical factor as
when the dish became unaligned this time last year both signal strength and
quality were close to zero and I had picture breakups and/or satellite
signal not being received. I have been praying that the dish won't become
unaligned again in this gusty weather we have had of late but so far so good
and it looks like whatever fix they implemented last time seems to be
holding up in this latest gusty weather.

I spend most my weekends around me mams but I can log into my slingbox at my
flat to check the picture to see if its breaking up.

"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ...
Fortunately the signal quality is over 60% which is the critical factor as
when the dish became unaligned this time last year both signal strength and
quality were close to zero and I had picture breakups and/or satellite
signal not being received. I have been praying that the dish won't become
unaligned again in this gusty weather we have had of late but so far so
good and it looks like whatever fix they implemented last time seems to be
holding up in this latest gusty weather.

I spend most my weekends around me mams but I can log into my slingbox at
my flat to check the picture to see if its breaking up.

Searched google and found this thread
http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky/quot...ot/td-p/144649

He too had very low signal strength after moving into an flat served by a
communal dish and the satellite engineers weren't worried about low signal
strength stating that it was to be expected from a dish serving 25 flats and
that quality was the only concern, his main problem was due to DECT
interference which I too had at me mams place (which has 100% signal
strength on CBS Reality) but since moving the DECT a couple of meters away
no further problems.

On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:10:47 +0000, Nick Le Lievre wrote:

My SKY + HD box shows a signal strength of zero on certain potentially

So you did start paying for $ky HD+ then despite your initial protestations
at the cost?

"J G Miller" wrote in message ...

On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:10:47 +0000, Nick Le Lievre wrote:

My SKY + HD box shows a signal strength of zero on certain potentially

So you did start paying for $ky HD+ then despite your initial protestations
at the cost?

No I still don't have SKY + HD, I have Sky + with a HD Box. My subscription
includes all the channels that were split into several packs but then
changed to just two packs - entertainment and entertainment plus and Sky
Sports 1. I get my fix of HD entertainment thanks to BBC1 HD BBC HD ITVHD
(via other channels) C4 HD and C5 HD and I don't think its worth paying for
HD versions of channels.

"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ...
No I still don't have SKY + HD, I have Sky + with a HD Box. My subscription
includes all the channels that were split into several packs but then
changed to just two packs - entertainment and entertainment plus and Sky
Sports 1. I get my fix of HD entertainment thanks to BBC1 HD BBC HD ITVHD
(via other channels) C4 HD and C5 HD and I don't think its worth paying
for HD versions of channels.

For what its worth, if you have DECT phone interference then these channels
are most likely to suffer picture breakup note CBS Reality is not one of
them.

188 True Ent
321 True Movies 1
322 True Movies 2
365 Chart Show TV
366 The Vault
367 Flava
372 Bliss
374 Scuzz
376 DanceNationTV
382 NME TV
616 POP
617 Tiny POP
625 Tiny POP +1
626 POPGirl
627 Kix!
629 POPGirl +1

If you have a dish alignment problem then these are the ones that I had
problems with as you can see there are far more affected and CBS Reality is
one of them.

CBS Action
CBS Reality
OBE
Travel Channel
Wedding TV Asia
Horse & Country
The Active Channel
Fitness TV
Euronews
Daystar
UCB TV
EWTN
Faith World TV
KICC TV
DBN
Believe TV
JML Direct
JML Cookshop
TV Shop
Ideal World
Price Drop TV
Rocks TV
High Street TV
Best Direct
Gems TV
JML Home & DIY
Gem Collector
QVC Beauty
Stop + Shop
speedauction tv
Rocks & Co 1
JML Choice
Record TV
DM Digital
ARY QTV
ARY News
Channel S
GEO Uk
SAB TV
Peace TV
Music India
jazeera children
AAG
IQRA TV
ATN Bangla UK
UMMAH Channel
Colors
Sunrise TV
Glory TV
Brit Asia TV
Ahlebait TV
Madani Chnl
Peace TV Urdu
Ahlubayt TV
Channel i
Sangat
Sikh TV
Jackpot Games
Gay Network
Chat Box
Ocean Finance
SportXXXGirls
Playboy TV
Adult Channel
Tease ME TV 2
Get Lucky TV
Lucky Star
40 n Naughty
Elite TV2
Climax
Extreme
Top Shelf TV
Dirty Talk
Filth
Xplicit Nightly
100% Babes
Chatgirl TV2
Blue Kiss TV
Northern Birds
Live 960
GirlGirl
Elite TV

"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ...
I spend most my weekends around me mams but I can log into my slingbox at
my flat to check the picture to see if its breaking up.

I just logged into my slingbox and took this screen shot

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/slingbox.png/

Which shows the signal strength of input1 to be 0% whereas input2 has a 30%
to 40% signal strength yet the most important stat is the signal quality
which is about 80% on input1.

On Sunday, January 8th, 2012, at 19:58:11h +0000, Nick Le Lievre wrote:

No I still don't have SKY + HD, I have Sky + with a HD Box.

Okay, thanks for the explanation.

I get my fix of HD entertainment thanks to BBC1 HD BBC HD ITVHD
(via other channels) C4 HD and C5 HD and I don't think its worth
paying for HD versions of channels.

Certainly not for the content on ITV-2 HD and ITV-3 HD since much
of their schedule is derived from non-HD material.

Do not forget that STV (west) HD and NHK World TV HD are also
available FTA from Astra 2/Eurobird-1 cluster!

"J G Miller" wrote in message ...

I get my fix of HD entertainment thanks to BBC1 HD BBC HD ITVHD
(via other channels) C4 HD and C5 HD and I don't think its worth
paying for HD versions of channels.

Certainly not for the content on ITV-2 HD and ITV-3 HD since much
of their schedule is derived from non-HD material.

Do not forget that STV (west) HD and NHK World TV HD are also
available FTA from Astra 2/Eurobird-1 cluster!

I probably do not watch as much free HD content as I should really and I was
impressed tonight when I tuned into Wild at Heart on ITV HD and it looked
fantastic, its good to know I have HDTV in my locker should I wish to view
it.