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help my tv

  • 29-06-2004 11:02am
    #1
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,941 ✭✭✭✭


    i having trouble with my wide screen tv 28 inch i cant get a great a picture out of it.
    the maker is SEG. i only have rabbit ears for it which is not right for a wide sceen you would need a outside aerial on the roof right most of the time i get great pictures on network 2 the i would have a crap picture on tv3 visa versa


    but the thing is i cant put a aerial up on the roof {dont ask] so how can i get a great picture with only rabbit ears.must be somthing else out there?


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  • #2
    Pacifico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭Pacifico


    A signal booster?

    They sell em' in Argos afaik


  • #3
    silverside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭silverside


    you can get a little amplifier; you can get an external aerial and hang it on your wall inside; you can put an aerial in your attic; you can get cable. There is no magic solution - if you get an amplfier you will be magnifying noise as well as signal so may not make a difference.

    there is another board called terrestrial or something where you will prob get the full answer.


  • #4
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,941 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    signal boasters ehh do the really work


  • #5
    jabberwock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 928 ✭✭✭jabberwock


    ya can get amplified rabbits ears :p .
    have it with my tv card and it works pretty good.
    got mine in a DIDElectrial store. bit pricey thou at €28.


  • #6
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Originally posted by snoopdog
    i only have rabbit ears for it which is not right for a wide sceen

    nothing broadcast in this country is right for widescreen


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  • #7
    kittex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭kittex


    Ha ha, so true.

    Since my mother got her wide screen TV she keeps complaining "everyone on TV is awful fat these days".

    Gotta love yer mammy. :D


  • #8
    PBC_1966
    Closed Accounts Posts: 310 ✭✭PBC_1966


    Boosters will help to an extent, but only if the problem if purely a weak signal. If there's interference coming in with the signal, you'll boost that as well.

    The wideband nature of the typical TV pre-amplifier also means that frequencies well outside the range you're watching will also be amplified, and some sets don't take too kindly to very strong signals at far-removed frequencies being pushed into the front-end. The VHF-TV/VHF-Radio/UHF gerneral-purpose boosters are very bad in this respect.

    All in all, if there's any way you can put up a high-gain antenna (in the attic maybe?) I'd go with that before you start trying to add extra amplification to the chain.


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