Freeview reception...

debitcardmayhem

perhaps trees have been cut down , or blown down, or aerial has moved into a better alignment due to wind, or even the transmitter has been upgraded.

Okell

debitcardmayhem said:

perhaps trees have been cut down , or blown down, or aerial has moved into a better alignment due to wind, or even the transmitter has been upgraded.

I wondered whether it might be because the transmitter had been upgraded.

I presume it's this one - Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | free and easy for 21 years - but I'm not a techno nerd and have no idea what any of the jargon means...

Okell

TELLIT01 said:

I don't know if the TV being Toshiba is relevant, but we have a Toshiba TV and a few months ago the 'standard' BBC channels changed to HD.  It only stayed that way for a few weeks and then reverted to normal.  I guess it's more likely that the broadcaster was playing around with the broadcast standard for a while.

I wondered whether all the "standard" Freeview channels had been switched to HD but I think @Neil_Jones is suggeting that that is unlikely(?). 

Okell

Just to add I'm now watching Alan Whicker interviewing Percy Shaw (the inventor of cats'eyes on the road) on the Rewind channel.

It must be 50+ years old yet it has pinpoint definition and clarity.

Obviously I don't know for sure, but I doubt it would have had the same definition and clarity a year ago...

Neil_Jones

Okell said:

Just to add I'm now watching Alan Whicker interviewing Percy Shaw (the inventor of cats'eyes on the road) on the Rewind channel.

It must be 50+ years old yet it has pinpoint definition and clarity.

Obviously I don't know for sure, but I doubt it would have had the same definition and clarity a year ago...

Rewind TV only launched on Freeview in September this year so its not a fair comparison.

However I have seen elsewhere that the picture quality on satellite for Rewind  isn't much cop either/..

Okell

Neil_Jones said:

Okell said:

Just to add I'm now watching Alan Whicker interviewing Percy Shaw (the inventor of cats'eyes on the road) on the Rewind channel.

It must be 50+ years old yet it has pinpoint definition and clarity.

Obviously I don't know for sure, but I doubt it would have had the same definition and clarity a year ago...

Rewind TV only launched on Freeview in September this year so its not a fair comparison.

However I have seen elsewhere that the picture quality on satellite for Rewind  isn't much cop either/..

I know - I only discovered Rewind in November.

However, if you've read my earlier posts you'll see that I was also comparing The Prisoner on Rewind with previous viewings - and so far as I know I last watched it on Freeview only a few months ago.

I also suspect that I saw the original Whicker's world with Percy shaw (alan whicker was a favourite with my parents) and this broadcast is no comparison at all.

tghe-retford

There's been no technical changes to Freeview that would describe what happened in the original post, particuarly for Rewind TV which is only available in standard definition. It is now considered a legacy platform and any developments have now moved to Freely, the IP based successor to Freeview and YouView, which the Toshiba TV will not support. The only factor here would be the TV - did someone change a picture setting which would improve the picture quality? I know people leave their TV's on the default one (usually Dynamic or Standard) thinking the manufacturer knows best but I find the picture is much better and to the directors intent if I switch it to Movie or Filmmaker Mode.