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Now on Fraserburgh esplanade persevering with 4000T freeview.

Tuned to Rosehearty 4.2 miles away using 570 in vertical mode.

Getting 100% strength and 95% quality on tuners 1 and 2 nothing on tuner 3.

My problem is pin sharp picture on live channels but pixilating on recordings.

Is this a case of poor reception-yet again?

You will only get a signal on tuner 3 when tuners 1 & 2 are tied up recording.

tune to channel 1 and press the record button to record BBC1 SD.

tune to channel 3 and press the record button to record ITV – SD

tune to 104 and press the record button to record Channel 4-HD.

Now display the signal diagnostics.

Recordings should be identical to live TV. A recording is a bit for bit exact copy of the live TV stream. You may have a hard drive problem. If you don’t mind losing your existing recordings try a hard disk format.

Many thanks Grahamlthompson-problem solved pin sharp pictures on all 3 tuners having reformated recorded content.

The only puzzling thing is tuner 3 shows nil signal and nil quality but is producing recordings of equal quality as tuners 1 and 2.

Tuner 3 is powered down when not required, presumably to save power. Unless you have a recording schedule that needs 3 tuners and you check during this period when all 3 tuners are being used, than it will not report any signal, this is completely normal.