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This week I’ve come across three railway TV programs on the same day on Yesterday channel so I recorded all three only to find that BT you view recorded them very badly ie keeps breaking up, so I tried it on free sat and it was perfect picture.
My question is does any one else have the same problem I can’t understand it as all other channels record ok.
Roger o

Freeview is very flaky where I live Roger being almost exactly central to three different Transmitters and none close. In fact some of my neighbors have three aerials on their roofs! Weather plays a big part in corrupting terrestrial signals round here, but I have never had a problem with my Freesat dish. I use both as the variety of channels does vary between them. "Yesterday" is one of my favourite channels with it's mix of transport, engineering and war history documentaries.

Unsure if your TV Freeview area has yet been updated? But ours was done last Wednesday 16th and while I was in Yorkshire this weekend the TV there was announcing their upgrade was to happen this Wednesday 23rd. If your area has been upgraded it is often necessary to re-tune the Freeview TVs and any Freeview recorders! Well worth doing it anyway!

Brian wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:19 pm Unsure if your TV Freeview area has yet been updated? But ours was done last Wednesday 16th and while I was in Yorkshire this weekend the TV there was announcing their upgrade was to happen this Wednesday 23rd. If your area has been upgraded it is often necessary to re-tune the Freeview TVs and any Freeview recorders! Well worth doing it anyway!

Yes the Yorkshire Tx is one of my three options, though not my preferred one and as you say Brian, changing this Wednesday. The problem I found with doing a complete re-scan is that, if the weather happens to be interfering with the airwaves at the time, you can actually lose some Tx completely from the list. So channels that worked at times before now don't even appear in the TV guide! Unfortunately there is no weather forecast (that I know of) saying today would be a good (or bad) day to re-tune your TVs. Freesat just doesn't seem to suffer the same from atmospherics.

TIP: Also, if you have recordings scheduled on a channel that changes, you may well lose the recording! Whenever I do a re-scan I take a quick picture on my phone of the scheduled recordings list first, then use it to check they are still there after the scan.

teedoubleudee wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:41 pm
TIP: Also, if you have recordings scheduled on a channel that changes, you may well lose the recording! Whenever I do a re-scan I take a quick picture on my phone of the scheduled recordings list first, then use it to check they are still there after the scan.

A good tip TWD. We lost a programme once after a re-scan. Didn't understand why at first.

Glencairn

Sky seems better at this, I set the box to record the Great Model Railway Challenge at the start of the series and when it changed to Saturdays so did the recording.

Richard

Yesterday channel is fine when watched on free sat, but when recorded on BT vision it’s terribly flakey, I’ve booted BT you view box but no difference. I think BT vision has to go when my contract ends shortly I’ve not been pleased with it and it’s very expensive. I might just get a TV recorder and a Now TV and turn my phones land line and mobile over to EE .
Or get my six year old grandson to sort it for me.
Roger o

My understanding of many of these packages from TalkTalk, EE and BT is that the boxes they provide use the Freeview free to air channels over the airwaves via an aerial then they add the ability to record. They add an ability to access easily the various catch-up services from other providers. BT are the only ones that add (at a price) their own channels as far as I can tell.

Virgin of course is not much different. The only gain I can see, if you're in a Virgin area, is the speed from fibre v copper to the home.

Before ditching BT (or anyone else) check how they obtain their various channels as the results may be no different to your existing provider.

FreeSat uses a different route although the channels aren't that different, just the channel numbers.

I used Sky for many years - until I realised that I was watching mainly terrestrial television channels and paying a princely sum for channels I hardly watched. That got dumped in favour of a Humax Freeview 1TB box. Not without its problems but with Amazon Prime it provides more entertainment than I need - or am willing to watch. R-

RogerB wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:39 am I used Sky for many years - until I realised that I was watching mainly terrestrial television channels and paying a princely sum for channels I hardly watched. That got dumped in favour of a Humax Freeview 1TB box. Not without its problems but with Amazon Prime it provides more entertainment than I need - or am willing to watch. R-

That's exactly why I dumped Sky many many years ago.

Thumbs up for Humax kit. I have a Freeview and a Freesat recorder from them. Reasonably priced and they sell refurbished units with 1 year warranty and free delivery. I have searched for alternative boxes from other manufacturers and couldn't find any as good.