Legion TV can precable your new home for all of the things discussed below, or if you prefer to do it yourself can supply everything you need at competitive prices. By far the easiest time to install any cabling in a house is when it is at the framing stage of being built, with the […]
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Other satellite channels available in NZ
There are quite a number of channels other than the Freeview ones available from a satellite dish in New Zealand. The majority of these are foreign language channels, or religious (predominantly Christian). Most of these channels are on a different satellite to those used by Sky and Freeview (Optus D1) which means that you will […]
How many Freeview decoders do I need?
We’ve had a few people lately asking if they can use one Freeview decoder for the whole house, or if they need one for each room. It is possible to watch one decoder in multiple rooms, but there are a few conditions attached to this scenario. As with Sky’s decoders, if you only have one […]
The Great HDMI Cable Scam
For many years now, when buying Home Theatre equipment the sales people have tried to talk you into buying expensive cable and interconnects. Things now seem to be coming to a head with many retailers selling very expensive HDMI and Toslink audio cables. In the past there has been a noticeable difference in picture and […]
How to change the LNB settings on a Sky decoder
Please note that the steps have changed slightly from what is below, but the process is more or less the same If you have moved house to one which already has a dish, plugged everything in, but get a ‘No signal, Rainfade’ message, then there is a chance you just need to change a few […]
Pixellating, Rainfade & No signal
Pixellation on DVB-S (satellite) has a number of causes, though they all relate back to one of two things – low signal levels, or poor quality signals. If your problem is intermittant and appears to be worse in bad weather, you probably have a reception problem, caused by something interfering with the signal, or the […]
LNB L.O. Settings
Something that often throws people when setting up a satellite decoder is what setting to use for the Local Oscillator (L.O.). Freeview approved decoders and some others use a system called ‘blind scan’ which eliminates the need to know any settings, you simply set the decoder to auto search and it will cycle through all […]
Acronyms Explained
In the TV industry and related fields there are many acronyms in use, many of which people don’t understand, or get wrong. We have heard just about every variation on UHF possible over the years, so here we’d like to try and help you out with them. Throughout our website we do use acronyms, but […]
Can I watch/change Sky channels in another room?
You have two main options here, multiple Sky decoders allowing independent Sky channels to be watched, or a reticulation system, which feeds the Sky channel from your existing decoder to other parts of the house. Having a second decoder installed – Sky call this Multiroom, and you will need to contact Sky TV to arrange […]