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tv reception
tv reception
by blackvelvet » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:56 pm
We recently bought a tv for our house in quesada.
A friend fixed it up,but we can only get German tv,
Looking up at the roof it looks like some kind if Sat dish but made of wire
Like a cage, there was no time at Xmas to get sorted so will have to wait
A while, but just wandered had anyone got any ideas or thoughts on this,
Thanks
A friend fixed it up,but we can only get German tv,
Looking up at the roof it looks like some kind if Sat dish but made of wire
Like a cage, there was no time at Xmas to get sorted so will have to wait
A while, but just wandered had anyone got any ideas or thoughts on this,
Thanks
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Re: tv reception
by mike » Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:03 pm
why not install freesat, then u get everything as if in UK. Mike
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Re: tv reception
by mike » Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:04 pm
ohhhhhhhhhhhh and the sat is free once installed, 299 or 399. Mike
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Re: tv reception
by Jan » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:40 pm
blackvelvet wrote:We recently bought a tv for our house in quesada.
A friend fixed it up,but we can only get German tv,
Looking up at the roof it looks like some kind if Sat dish but made of wire
Like a cage, there was no time at Xmas to get sorted so will have to wait
A while, but just wandered had anyone got any ideas or thoughts on this,
Thanks
Hi,
Did you mean your friend fixed the mesh aerial up? Did you get a set top box with the set-up, if so you can change the language?
Our neighbours have that kind of mesh aerial and they are Hungarian and lots of the Spanish residents around us have them too.
If you don't have a box with your TV already, I think you could use a TDT set top box with that aerial if you want to.
The TDT is a system which the Spanish use like our British digital receivers and either comes through a community aerial system or a mesh type aerial/receiver, which sounds a bit like the one you have.
The (set-top style) boxes for TDT can be bought anywhere quite cheaply in Spain often under or around 30 euros and that's all that's needed as there is no licence fee in Spain.
We are holiday-homers and only have the TDT system and change the language when the channels are showing British or American films or programmes, which can be found on certain channels all the time. We also use a DVD for films and programmes we have recorded in the UK from our TV which suits us as we are on holiday and don't watch as much TV as often as at home in the UK.
Found this description on line:
Terrestrial Digital Television (TDT)
TDT is the Spanish equivalent of of the UK's freeview television. Digital television provides a greater number of channels and better picture quality using transmission to a standard television aerial. TDT also allows the viewer to choose the original version language or subtitles.
Jan.
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Re: tv reception
by marcliff » Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:59 pm
If the "wire cage" is like a little dish, then it is probably a rebroadcast company putting out only German channels.
Or, your community could have a dish and you are picking up the German channels through that.
Either way, it is analogue TV which you don't want and you can't change the German to English.
If you've just bought the TV, it will have two parts to the TV, analogue and digital, built into the TV and you won't need a separate box.
You need to tune your TV into the digital channels.
Go into set up and select digital setup. It will prompt you to do a channel scan. Do that and wait whilst it goes through the scan. Of course, you will need a lead from the wall box to the TV.
At the end of it you should have about 90 plus channels, some will show TV and some will show radio.
Make sure you are watching Digital TV and not analogue (Spain closed down its analogue channels some years ago).
When you select a channel, it will be in Spanish. On your remote control will be a button marked audio, or lang, or simply I/II.
Press that and the options for the language will come up as VO (version original), unid or mul(unidentified or multi) or even Spanish and English. Keep pressing the button until something other than Spanish comes up. If the original language of the programme was English then that it what you will hear.
If you go through the digital setup and don't get any channels then you don't have a correct aerial fitted. In Quesada, if you are on the top of the hill the aerial will point to Guardamar and if you are down the bottom it will point to San Miguel. If you are on a community, you will have a very tall aerial mast pointing to Guardamar (to get over the hill).
Summary - select digital setup - select scan - watch TV.
If you continue to have problems, PM me and I can come round and set it up for you (no charge, cup of coffee appreciated). If I can't tune it in for you I can at least tell you if you'll need an aerial or not.
Or, your community could have a dish and you are picking up the German channels through that.
Either way, it is analogue TV which you don't want and you can't change the German to English.
If you've just bought the TV, it will have two parts to the TV, analogue and digital, built into the TV and you won't need a separate box.
You need to tune your TV into the digital channels.
Go into set up and select digital setup. It will prompt you to do a channel scan. Do that and wait whilst it goes through the scan. Of course, you will need a lead from the wall box to the TV.
At the end of it you should have about 90 plus channels, some will show TV and some will show radio.
Make sure you are watching Digital TV and not analogue (Spain closed down its analogue channels some years ago).
When you select a channel, it will be in Spanish. On your remote control will be a button marked audio, or lang, or simply I/II.
Press that and the options for the language will come up as VO (version original), unid or mul(unidentified or multi) or even Spanish and English. Keep pressing the button until something other than Spanish comes up. If the original language of the programme was English then that it what you will hear.
If you go through the digital setup and don't get any channels then you don't have a correct aerial fitted. In Quesada, if you are on the top of the hill the aerial will point to Guardamar and if you are down the bottom it will point to San Miguel. If you are on a community, you will have a very tall aerial mast pointing to Guardamar (to get over the hill).
Summary - select digital setup - select scan - watch TV.
If you continue to have problems, PM me and I can come round and set it up for you (no charge, cup of coffee appreciated). If I can't tune it in for you I can at least tell you if you'll need an aerial or not.
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Re: tv reception
by Jan » Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:40 pm
marcliff wrote:If the "wire cage" is like a little dish, then it is probably a rebroadcast company putting out only German channels.
Or, your community could have a dish and you are picking up the German channels through that.
Either way, it is analogue TV which you don't want and you can't change the German to English.
If you've just bought the TV, it will have two parts to the TV, analogue and digital, built into the TV and you won't need a separate box.
You need to tune your TV into the digital channels.
Go into set up and select digital setup. It will prompt you to do a channel scan. Do that and wait whilst it goes through the scan. Of course, you will need a lead from the wall box to the TV.
At the end of it you should have about 90 plus channels, some will show TV and some will show radio.
Make sure you are watching Digital TV and not analogue (Spain closed down its analogue channels some years ago).
When you select a channel, it will be in Spanish. On your remote control will be a button marked audio, or lang, or simply I/II.
Press that and the options for the language will come up as VO (version original), unid or mul(unidentified or multi) or even Spanish and English. Keep pressing the button until something other than Spanish comes up. If the original language of the programme was English then that it what you will hear.
If you go through the digital setup and don't get any channels then you don't have a correct aerial fitted. In Quesada, if you are on the top of the hill the aerial will point to Guardamar and if you are down the bottom it will point to San Miguel. If you are on a community, you will have a very tall aerial mast pointing to Guardamar (to get over the hill).
Summary - select digital setup - select scan - watch TV.
If you continue to have problems, PM me and I can come round and set it up for you (no charge, cup of coffee appreciated). If I can't tune it in for you I can at least tell you if you'll need an aerial or not.
We are still using a 'dinosaur' of a TV in Spain and forgot about the integral digital inside the TV's nowadays - Should have realised as we have them at home in the UK.
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