Recent content by Lucid

Lofts can be weird for aerial positioning. Be prepared to experiment. Unless you can get hold of a very good meter, one with a display for the bit error rate per mux, then I'd recommend skipping any consumer meter and use a TV signal quality display instead. This isn't perfect. The TV is...

I should defer to someone with antenna building experience, but if I had to hazard a guess (and I emphasise a guess) then I would think this relates to the new shorter band for terrestrial now that the 700MHz clearance is complete. The 'channels' are now 'squashed' into a smaller range, and so...

The remotes got swapped, then?

My guess is he's stumbled across some of the CCTV ones. Basic coax-based CCTV often runs with a shotgun cable carrying 12V along side the coax. Any balun pair would need an extra connection to carry power via the Ethernet cable then convert it back at the other end.

As you've found out, Freeview includes some digital TV channels which are 'audio only'. These are the radio station channels. The number nationally is around 50, but because of regionalisation, you'll probably get somewhere around 20~25 of them. If you add a DAB or FM or DAB/FM combo aerial...

I think flameport has a point here. If you're not planning on having a TV in the kitchen, then running the TV aerial signal to the room is sort of pointless. Retailer aerialsandtv did some tests to check FM and DAB reception with various types of aerials. You can see the chart of their results...

Maybe just get a universal remote? When my mum went into hospice care, I got her an One4All remote which had bigger buttons with better contrast so easier for her to use without having to reach for her reading glasses.

The Consumer Right Act doesn't replace an extended warranty though. Yes, it gives the consumer some addition rights beyond the standard 12 month / 24 month manufacturer's warranty and any support offered by the credit card issuer if that's how it was purchased. However, the CRA doesn't mean a...

Pairing is only needed when there's either wireless involved, or it's a universal remote where the one of the various code sets needs to be chosen to match the TV. I think in u/DIYspanner's case this is a simple basic IR remote designed to work a specific range of products, be that TVs or DVD...

Good plan. According to this eBay listing, the remote you have is for DVD/HD Freeview recorders and similar. It's for some kind of box under the TV rather than the TV itself. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394727932451

According to the user manual, the genuine Toshiba remote for that TV is CT-90300. Is your SE-R0344 the original supplied remote or an aftermarket replacement?

in a lot of cases it's so the big retailer can avoid price competition with other resellers. Having a different model number makes it harder for customers to shop around. For example, the 58E6QTUK (£312) is marginally more expensive than the 58A6QTUK (£290-ish) from other retailers, but Argos...

Glad that's all working for you.

SCART was designed to be a two-way connection, even if it wasn't always fully used. That caused no end of problems with SCART to RCA leads because it was too easy to buy a one-way wired lead, or try to get audio out from RCAs designed to send sound to the TV. The switched SCART adapters helped...

There's really no need to throw yourself under a bus over this. It's a storm in a tea cup. You came on a bit strong with your first post, and so you got a bit of pushback. It's not the end of the world. Plenty of us have been there, myself included.