1towatch Aerial and Satellite Installation

This customers required good external coverage and the ability to view all exposed areas remotely, but with the minimum of cameras. We settled for one of the excellent Serage systems with two external night colour dome cameras for the front drive and rear garden, plus a superb Mini flat dome for inside the kitchen breakfast room which covered all access points from the rear garden.

Many people with little hope of decent internet speeds in their location are turning to Starlink. We have installed several systems in the past couple of months and the performance is excellent, leaving the customer very satisfied. You can order your kit from Order Starlink, but may be worth speaking to us regarding any extras you may require for your particular installation.

The 30th of June saw the switching off of COM7 multiplex on Freeview, the frequency will now be used for 5G mobile and a retune is required. Affected channels are as in the image below. Most channels on the affected multiplex have disappeared completely for at least the short term, but probably altogether.

Rollout of 4G mobile transmitter masts has sped up in the past year or so, some areas have experienced lots of problems and others very little.

In my experience, the interference has been more of a problem in fringe reception areas, where heavy amplification is required for troublefree viewing. The amplifier also amplifies the signal from the 4G mast, swamping the TV signals. Fixing the problem will often involve swapping out masthead amplifiers with 4G filtered models and occasionally also fitting a mastheaed LTE filter.

If you’ve received a free filter from at800 and it isn’t making any difference, give 1towatch a call and we can fix the problem for you.

 

As Microsoft will stop supporting the Skype app for smart TVs, some manufacturers will remove the app from new TV software updates. Those with Skype installed on their existing TV can continue using it, but there will be no updates after June 2016.

from broadbandtvnews

The newly launched Now TV box, will retail at £9.99 and make available free internet services such as BBC iPlayer, Demand 5, BBC and Sky news apps, plus no doubt more to come in time. The box should connect to most modern TVs.

NOW TV will offer access to Sky Sports and Sky Movies on a pay per view basis, plus internet services such as Facebook and Spotify.

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For those of you receiving your TV from Oxford transmitter, due to frequency clearance in readiness for 4G mobile services, a retune of your TV or Freeview box will be required on the morning of 29th of May. The multiplex to be moved carries CITV, ITV 3, E4, 5*, 5 USA and a number of other TV and Radio stations, these will all disappear that morning and as stated above, a retune will be required.

First image is a 60cm Triax dish with an Inverto 4.3 degree monobloc LNB, this will receive Astra 19.2 East and Hotbird 13 degrees East.  Second image is a mini log periodic antenna for digital reception and a Sky minidish with quad LNB, both on compact galvanised chimney cradle bracket.