DSTV Reception

[TheTwo]

Had a guy over installing DSTV this weekend
The reception wasnt as good as other DSTV channels i've watched at friends etc

He says to me it's cos my tv is old

That doesnt sound right to me

I thought that with DSTV it's either VERY GOOD reception or it loses signal and you get NO SIGNAL

Am i right? is he just bullsh|tting me? :wtf:

 

[AceT]

Yes but depends ons how you connect your dstv to your tv. Using the yellow av connector should result in having the same quaility always.

 

[ponder]

I thought that with DSTV it's either VERY GOOD reception or it loses signal and you get NO SIGNAL

Am i right? is he just bullsh|tting me? :wtf:

Yes you are right. Your interconnects or tv could be the problem.

 

[TheTwo]

well the reception was BETTER before he installed the Dish
and then it was a normal external antenna, aerial thing

 

[Kheiron]

well the reception was BETTER before he installed the Dish
and then it was a normal external antenna, aerial thing

I assume you're talking about the SABC channels and/or MNet.
If this is the case then it's likely the connections themselves. It's definitely not the installation.

 

[ajax]

Had a guy over installing DSTV this weekend
The reception wasnt as good as other DSTV channels i've watched at friends etc

He says to me it's cos my tv is old

That doesnt sound right to me

I thought that with DSTV it's either VERY GOOD reception or it loses signal and you get NO SIGNAL

Am i right? is he just bullsh|tting me? :wtf:

As long as you haven't used Aerea-Sat for the installation I wouldn't think the guy is having you on...

You haven't specified your complete setup. But if there's an rf connection involved in there, then yes, possibly it could be your tv or a bad connection.

Friends of mine had an old tv and the terrestrial reception was always bad, even though they lived 5 km from a high power transmitter. We tried higher gain antennas, better cable, nothing worked. Always a tad snowy the picture.

If you're DSTV is connected via RF to the tv, and more so if you are running it via RF through a HDD or video recorder, the RF signal will start to look pretty crappy very quickly.

If you're tv has an AV connection, then try that.

If you still have the old terrestrial antenna hooked up, it's probably running through the decoder's RF, then watching those channels (while the DSTV decoder is on a different channel) will definitely look crappier.

 

[TheTwo]

THANKS!

Brilliant advice, will have them check the RF connector