Will a signal booster really work for my LCD with built-in Freeview?

Question

I have a Samsung LE32R74BDX, and sometimes some of the channels (always the same ones: ITVx, C4, C5, E4 and a few more) are totally scrambled. Samsung says it's the signal.

Answer 1

you need a digital aerial...

Get an Aerial fitter to pop round he'll sort out ya picture in less than half an hour.

Once it is done then you can just sit and what the great telly you bought (I got the same set in my bedroom and am very impresed!)

Answer 2

Signal Boosters are designed to boost the signal all ready being recieved.

For example say the * represents Picture and the . . represents fuzzy noise

NORMAL:
*****************. . . . .

With a booster:
**********************************. . . . . . . . . .

Notice how that with a signal booster your tv signal is just boosted, including the white/fuzzy noise. The booster is really designed to boost poor signals accross many TV's ( the only way i could ever imagin it being used is in somewhere like a guest house - as everyone has satallite these days) To obtain a better signal from a Freeview signal - Perhaps buy an arial that has more elements on it so it can scan a greater width of frequencies.

Or a NEW alternative

Sky have now introduced their equivillent to freeview called FreeSat - suggest that if your in a poor signal area and dont want to pay a monthly subscription. The one off payment for FreeSat would be ideal for you. You also get all they Sky dish and if u fancied upgrading for Sky + or whatever the dish is already in place.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

This sounds a familiar problem and it's to do with your aerial. Digital carrier waves are of a different frequency to analogue ones and so it follows, a different wavelength.
TV aerials have little poles to correspond. Wideband aerials for digital are configured slightly differently and analogue aerials can't pass MUX band D in particular. I presume you get BBC perfectly but have problems with CBBC and CBeebies.
The answer is to have a wideband aerial fitted. Costly, between 80 and 300 quid depending on how tricky the fit is.

Answer 4

That should work
But first check the aerial and cabling and make sure they are ok ..
What u could do is borrow another Freeview box and connect that that up and see what u get .If u get the same problem then it's deffo the aerial or cabling ..If it's ok then it's your freeview tuner inthe tv .

Answer 5

We have had nothing but trouble trying to get a decent signal through freeview, so we have given in and got SKY. (We got sky+ free usually £99.00, worth mentioning if you sign up).

Answer 6

not usually mate, i had this problem in university, my signal boosting arial did less than nothing, in fact it was worse.