Digital TV is new to New Zealand, and very new to me.
I have a Sat. dish on the roof feeding 3 decoders in various rooms via a cable splitter half way along the "parent" line from the dish.
Yesterday 2 decoders stopped receiving one channel that we watch, but the third decoder was still receiving it, so ..... it wasn't a channel failure, it wasn't a dish failure or a cable failure - the active decoder is on a branch line from the main cable, one of the failed ones is on an unbroken line from the dish - one of the decoders with the missing channel was unplugged from any power source, but both the successful one and the other problem one were on standby.
All other channels were received without problem, so why did this happen ?
A decoder failure I can accept, but two at the same time ??
The remote controller "Menu" option has led me to many on screen alternative options, many of which are total mysteries to me, but I found one labelled "retune" and that has restored the rogue channel on one of the decoders, but not yet the other one.
We have been advised of something called "Rain fade" which I can understand, but the heavy rain forcast for our area didn't materialise, tho' of course it could have been between us and the satellite, and we did experience gale force winds for a few days. ( this is New Zealand )
World's Gone Mad.
Any suggestions thankfully received - or more to the point, how to prevent it happening again ? ( the successful decoder of the three was the most upmarket one - so it might just be a case of you get what you pays for ?? )
Last edited by ExSp33db1rd; 12th October 2013 at 07:21.