Hi All, Have been reading your forum for a while now, so thanks for all the advice you have given. It's certainly made my life much easier. But I wobder if you can help with jopefully a small pronlem. I've recently bought a Starview 2 PVR TheBox and when trying to use the twin tuner view, I keep getting 'no signal on channel 2'. (this is only for certain channels, incl. bbc1, ch 4 etc, some are OKm presumably the ones with stronger sigbals) I am looping the output from ch 1 into the 2nd input. My question is, am I losing too much signal wiring it this way, or should I use a splitter nearer the wall box? Or even a 'booster'? Any advice is much appreciated Steve
Hi Steve A few people do have problems with the 2nd tuner, and I am convinced that the second tuner (after loop through)looses some of its strength. You could try doing it the splitter way to feed both tuners from the splitter (instead of the short loop cable) to see if any improvement. Another check after saving your present channel list to HD would be to disconnect the loop through cable and do a scan on tuner one only to see if your lost channels appear and stay on with a good signal. jbvid
Hi jbvid, Thanks for reply. Yes, the first tuner does hold the channels. It does seem as though there's not ebough signal. Is it an option to get VM to increase the their signal? (The freezes and loss of prog info with my NTL box prompted me to get Starview in the first place) I suppose I should go and buy a splitter and try that before contacting VM. Thanks again. Steve
Hi Yes a good idea to tell NTL of your signal strength problem especially if it shows a problem when their box is connected but make sure you have their box plugged in to show them the problem and the Starview well hidden/out of site. If they say the signal is ok which sounds unlikely you could then try a splitter or a booster, but I do not hold out much hope for, or hear too many success stories about boosters and don't think they should really be needed anyway. jbvid
Went to Maplins and bought splitter and extra connectors etc. After fitting and re-autotuning (took a lot longer than before, assume it was doing 'both' tuners this time) and all seems to be OK. Even managed to record two progs at the same time!. Will still try and get the incoming siganl increased though, -it must be pretty marginal. Anyway, thanks for all the advice. Cheers Steve ps is there a quick way to organise the channels?
Hi Steve Glad you are sorted, only two way to organise you channel lists, neither are quick, one is using Menu/Channel Edit and for the other goto the link below and download SVCE_1044 jbvid http://eko.4shared.com/
Thanks again jbvid, much appreciated. FYI, VM are coming monday. Apparently they cant increase signal strength ad hoc, they have to send an 'engineer' to check. Bit of a pain to have to unplug it all. Probably like yourself, have got DVD, vcr, home cinema box etc. Will tie wiring into more knots, no doubt! Will check out the channel options shortly. Cheers Steve
