TV tuning

swebb

We have 4 TVs in the house. They have aerial sockets in the wall in each of the rooms. In the loft is a gateway connector where the aerial outside is connected and this feeds the other rooms (this is always connected to a mains in the loft).

The main TV is fine (although we use through Sky), but the other rooms have problems. The picture/sound is poor. In the kitchen we can get 4 channels fine, take the aerial out of the wall and we can pick up the other channel well but not the others! One of the bedrooms only picks up a couple channels.

Any ideas what I can do to get good pictures in all rooms? (main TV connects via sky/DVD/video, 2 are straight connections in the wall socket and the other is via a video).

irnbru_2

swebb wrote:

The main TV is fine

If connected to the loft aerial, does it pick up all 5 channels?

You need to check each aerial feed from a common source.

Assuming the living room feed delivers all 5 channels from TV aerial:

1. disconnect all the feeds, noting the living room one.
2. Connect each feed in turn to the living room.

If your TV's are properly tuned in and they still fail to pick up all 5 channels then it's most likely a cable problem.

swebb wrote:

Any ideas what I can do to get good pictures in all rooms? (main TV connects via sky/DVD/video, 2 are straight connections in the wall socket and the other is via a video).

The two going into the wall, are they both from the Sky box i.e. an input and then a return feed?

irnbru_2

swebb wrote:

In the kitchen we can get 4 channels fine, take the aerial out of the wall and we can pick up the other channel well but not the others!

One other thing .....

I don't have Sky but if one of the feeds in the living room is the Sky return feed (used to push Sky round the house) maybe it's interfering with the channel missing in the kitchen?

Try taking out the return feed and see what happens.

coolagarry

I had lots of trouble with one aeriel for multi tv's and found that the best (and cheapest) option was to install two more cheap aeriels in the loft (both from car boot sales) and connect them to the tv's upstairs.