Hi all, I have a Panasonic DMR EZ25 DVD recorder, that has both analogue and digital tuners integrated into it. Its connected to an aerial system pointing at Oxford. Since about 5 days ago, all the digital channels have stopped working on the Panasonic recorder.

Having a lot of breakup on this today. TV shows strength 99 and Quality 100 on BBC1 mux but strength 98 with Quality 0 on ITV. Using Topfield tuner instead, I still get breakup. Is anyone else seeing any problems? Thanks John

With Freeview boxes being available from £15 I'm wondering when, or if ever, the prices of HD boxes will come down in price, for the little difference an HD box would make I'm not going to pay over 6 times as much over an SD box. It looks as if Freesat in SD or HD will never be competitive in price even if a dish is available as I have. Regards David

For the past few days some of the channels EPG is showing "NO INFORMATION", is this just Sandy Heath or everywhere?

A shelf spotted at Tesco yesterday. http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/102s.jpg The "32DB resistor aerial" looks like this http://direct.tesco.com/product/images/?R=208-6107 Should that be -32dB? -- Adrian C

At 10 p.m. last night I went to Movies4Men 2 to watch Inglorious *******s. It was at 16:9, which is unusual for that channel. Realised after about a minute that I needed the +1, changed and it was 4:3 but too 'high'. Changed the TV to 16:9 and that was correct. The set-up that I have is Auto-wide on the TV and 16:9 on the Freesat box; this gives the correct ratio for WS programmes and switches...

Hi all! HD-wise, I currently have a 1080P telly with freeview only and a DVB-S2 tuner in my PC, but the distance between the two is too great to link them up. I'd like to get some kind of HD tuner rigged up on the TV so that I can get some HD channels on it. My primary driver for this (no pun intended) is the F1 appearing in HD in 2 months time. I've been using a Topfield TF5800 for the last...

If you can catch this on iPlayer (BBC4 last night) it's very interesting. Firstly there's a section near the start that appears to be videotaped, with a very messy sync problem at the start and finish, and also a bit as it plays. Then there are what appear to be small black objects contaminating the field of view. It looks as if it was filmed off a TV screen that needed a wash. Also take a...

Is STV+1 on Freesat yet, if so, what LC number? (I'm using an AB10 postal code - STV is on LC 103) I have STV+1 on 'Non-Freesat Channels' (Grundig SD STB), have I to delete this for STV+1 to appear onFreesat? Is this also why I can only receive the STV (North) version; no other version will appear on 'Non-Freesat Channels'*, though other versions of Ch4 do appear?

Hi all, I happened across ITV1+1 last night as the "local" news was on and noticed that it was showing Meridian news instead of Anglia. The EPG information says the same thing. Has someone blundered, or does Sandy Heath fall into a time warp during the hour's delay?! Dave

I'm just toying with the idea of getting a Freesat dish to get a few more channels than with Freeview. The main obstacle is the need to put in another coax downlead. There is a bit of plastic ducting buried in the wall leading up to the loft, but unfortunately it's already full with one TV lead and one for the FM radio, and I don't want to do without either at the moment. It's not...

I'm a bit out of touch with this sort of thing, so I wonder if anyone here has up to date info. The customer has a number of bog standard Sky boxes used for the Movie channels, and is troubled by the parental control system, which apparently is requiring someone to enter a PIN number every day. I vaguely remember that there is a solution to this, but I don't have any Sky boxes with cards...

Hi all, I have a four year old Samsung 32" LCD telly which doesn't seem to be wearing very well. It's sprouted some dark patches on the panel... http://www.stamp.plus.com/Photos/duff_telly.JPG It's not all that bad yet - I had to select the shade of grey quite carefully to get it to show-up for the photo. It is noticeable fairly often when watching TV though, so it's given me an excuse to...

Just appeared on DUK's web site http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/transmitternetwork/tools__and__resources/almanac/installer_newsletters_transmitter_groups2009_pdfs/Special_edition-installers_Waltham_retuneFINAL_Aug11.pdf http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/transmitternetwork/tools__and__resources/almanac/installer_newsletters_transmitter_groups2009_pdfs/Installers_3MO_Nottingham_FINAL.pdf --

Could someone kindly give me a lead? - as a tv addict some years ago, I threw mine out and haven't bought one since so am well behind the curve and not able to fathom this out. A friend recently bought a samsung ue32c5800 and being even more inept than I am on setting it up asked if I could do it for her. I went through the initialising and tried every which way to get it to auto seek without...

Hi All, Is there a general rule of thumb for determining what the largest screen size is per size of room (I guess viewing distance would more relevant). I have some vague recollection of seeing some guides a while ago but can't find them now and want to avoid the mistake I've seen at a number of houses where the TV is so large and close to the viewer that the picture looks really...

I see from Kingofsat that this shares a transponder with ITV1HD Granada & STV HD, both of wich are in the clear but Central is scrambled. Does anyone know why this is? CD

Was it something at my end or was some of the dancing "unviewable" through pixelation?

Well, perhaps Ofcom were lurking in here over Christmas :-) Ofcom has today published updated versions of its regional Digital Switchover Transmitter Details documents, which can be downloaded from http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/guidance/tech-guidance/dsodetails/. The Document History provided at the end of each document contains details of the main changes since the previous...

Same woolly sounding dialogue again on tonight's episode. Made even more obvious at the end by the continuity announcer coming across the closing music at painfully high level, and extremely bright sounding. Wonder where Zen is dubbed? Perhaps they need their speakers set up properly. -- *Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool*