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Originally Posted by Steve S
I think you have a really good point though as my brother dropped by today and right away said that my TV is high def and it's really not made for the signals from an antenna.
He figures with all the wireless that I have in here that the TV is getting confused about what signals to pick up. This really makes sense as now that I think about it the TV in the bedroom really isn't on until night and all wireless is shut down.
His solution is to bring over a sat system and see what happens then.
I hope this cures it!
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No offense, but he's not right on any of that. I have three HD sets all running off of good old fashioned "rabbit ears" plus a small amplifier. Almost all HD sets have receivers for over the air broadcast, and do it very well.
As far as the "wireless" interacting, it should not. And that doesn't match your description of what changes in the environment when it fails. WiFi operates a long way away from TV broadcast in the frequency spectrum. Interference is rare and usually from a bad power supply throwing radio noise across the entire spectrum.
I'm going to bow out and back up the response that said you need to eliminate things one by one in a controlled fashion. Troubleshooting is a specific skill and it requires just a touch of discipline. Experience makes it look easier since you can jump straight to the most common problems, but when you're new at it, you kinda have to just follow the steps and do things one thing at a te and re-assess as new information is learned.
Yes, hooking up a satellite dish may fix it, if the problem is signal strength and interference, since the signal from a satellite receiver is always strong, since the "transmitter" to the TV is in the dish receiver and therefore very strong into the TV.
But it's not an indication that an HDTV wasn't built to receive over the air signals.
One step at a time if you want free TV. If you want to pay, and the problem isn't input power related, the dish will probably work to cover up whatever is really happening.