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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.

    | Wed 18 Nov 2015 10:39:47 #1 |
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    Welcome to our Forum

    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?

    | Wed 18 Nov 2015 12:18:18 #2 |
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    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.

    | Wed 18 Nov 2015 13:15:29 #3 |
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    Have you the same mux with a superior reception in channel numbers over 800 ?

    | Wed 18 Nov 2015 13:28:05 #4 |
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    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?

    | Wed 18 Nov 2015 13:46:59 #5 |
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    Video...

    https://goo.gl/photos/k6iBhbMtYa2Ktp7r6

    | Wed 18 Nov 2015 13:47:42 #6 |
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    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.

    https://blusas.co.uk/mho.php?loc=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Labgear-19114S-Variable-TV-Attenuator/dp/B004SNWYPY&tag=blusas008-21

    | Wed 18 Nov 2015 13:59:23 #7 |
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    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.

    | Wed 18 Nov 2015 23:19:43 #8 |
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    I'm getting freezing/interference on my TV looped through this box, never happened with the humax it has replaced

    | Mon 23 Nov 2015 22:33:53 #9 |
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    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.

    | Mon 23 Nov 2015 22:45:42 #10 |

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