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After 2 weeks of owning my 4000T I have seen quite a few instances of live TV stuttering every 20-30 seconds. Last night I watched the England football on ITV and it was particularly bad. The weather was quite windy, maybe reception issues, but watching using my TVs tuner was fine.(looped thru PVR). I used the signal test and got 92-95 strength 100 quality. If I used rewind and watched back the picture was without stutter!
Any ideas how to improve the live TV?
I did video this on my phone but it’s 360mb. Too big to upload?
Overall I would recommend this box. UI has too may button presses compared to my old PVRs but I haven’t had any other problems.
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My unit was tuned to match though I did not concentrate fully on it, but did not witness any issues, except perhaps when the ball hit the mics at side of pitch caused a momentary sound issue.
Strange that rewind is ok yet live is not….. would suggest a problem between unit and TV connection.
How is the unit connected?
Connected to TV with supplied HDMI cable.
The issue affected other channels on the same MUX. Ch.4/5/ITV2.
Box was also recording BBC2 at the time. No issues with this recording or with BBC1.
grahamlthompson – 15 minutes ago »
Have you the same mux with a superior reception in channel numbers over 800 ?
No. On setup I manually tuned all channels using muxes from Winter Hill.
What would be acceptable signal strength?
gorses – 5 minutes ago »
grahamlthompson – 15 minutes ago »
Have you the same mux with a superior reception in channel numbers over 800 ?
No. On setup I manually tuned all channels using muxes from Winter Hill.
What would be acceptable signal strength?
How far away is Winter Hill ?
Hard to say as the indicated signal strength varies with different boxes. Quality is much more important. My HDR FOX T2’s will work fine at 42% strength but 100% quality. You may simply have too high a signal. If the FVP-4000T has more sensitive tuners than the TV it’s easy to overload the tuner front end. If you used some sort of amplification pre-dso then you may be able to remove it. Otherwise try a variable signal attenuator on the box rf input.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Labgear-19114S-Variable-TV-Attenuator/dp/B004SNWYPY
According to ukfree.tv Winter Hill is 10.8km away, in line of sight.
I have one of those attenuators around somewhere. I’ll give it a try.
Odd that if I timeshift play it works fine though.
I’m getting freezing/interference on my TV looped through this box, never happened with the humax it has replaced
At 10.8Km fom a high power transmitter you could more than likely use a coat hanger for reception. If your aerial was set up to use pre-dso power output, there’s more than a good chance your signal strength is too high.
BCMLDR – 11 minutes ago »
I’m getting freezing/interference on my TV looped through this box, never happened with the humax it has replaced
Are you talking about with the box on, or in sby ? If in sby turn off power saving in sby.
grahamlthompson – 25 minutes ago »
At 10.8Km fom a high power transmitter you could more than likely use a coat hanger for reception. If your aerial was set up to use pre-dso power output, there’s more than a good chance your signal strength is too high.
Thanks Graham, not had chance to try out an attenuator this weekend.
Am getting grief off wifey over the box not turning on though….same problem as other thread here.
Why not try a passive splitter – which is what I did with my 2000T. The 2T had all sorts of issues when I used loop-through. Tried a £2.00 passive splitter and not had any issues since.
Just to follow up I have used a variable attenuator to get the signal strength down to around 75% and the stuttering is gone.
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