Hi, I'm new to this forum. I have briefly browsed for any topics that might be relevant to my problem, including using the tags, but didn't find anything. Apologies if I've missed one.
Apologies, also, for a rather rambling first post but I need to give a reasonably clear idea of my setup in case it has a bearing on the problem. Here goes:
I have UHF and VHF antennas feeding into a booster via a combiner. The output of the booster then goes to a splitter to feed the Hi-Fi and TV setup. The latter consists of a Panasonic HDTV and Panasonic DVD/HD recorder plus the Humax 2000T.
Because the Humax doesn't have signal feed-through I have been obliged to split the signal to it so that I can still watch TV and record on the other machine when the Humax is in standby. Initially I used a passive splitter but the Humax seemed to have problems with the signal so I've now used another booster with multiple outputs.
The Panasonic TV and recorder have been working perfectly on this set-up but the Humax still suffers from picture and sound break-up. When I look at Signal Detection it shows the following:
Channel Strength Quality
21 100% 100%
24 100% 100%
27 100% 100%
32 100% 100%
48 95% 100%
51 94% 100%
52 93% 100%
I presume from this that the error rate on all channels is vanishingly small so can't understand why it has the problem
I think I did this test with the original passive splitter and decided that some of the channels were close to or below the recommended 30% strength but I can't be totally sure.
Immediately after installing the second booster the 2000T worked fine for quite a while albeit with an occasional report of a record failure with just a minor blip in the recording but I get the distinct impression that this problem is rapidly getting much worse. One recent recording was so bad that I couldn't continue watching it. This seems to be independant of weather conditions and in any case the TV and other recorder are still rock-solid so I have to conclude that the problem must lie in the Humax.
Is it possible this is being caused by too high a signal level (bearing in mind I had the problem with the passive splitter)? Alternatively is it possible that the problem lies in the hard drive?
One thing I haven't done so far is watch a broadcast programme through the 2000T tuner. Maybe this would identify which of the above is the more likely.
Any thoughts on this would be gratefully received.
Regards,
Mike.