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I don’t have cable mostly because (before the pandemic), I worked a lot of hours away from home, so it just wasn’t worth the cost for the few hours of TV I would watch over the month.
Anyway, I have a smart TV with an antenna that I have setting behind the TV. I live near a metropolitan area. My problem is that different local stations will pixelate at different times. A plane might fly overhead. The sun might come out. There might be some shift in the galaxy that I’m unaware of. Maybe it’s a conspiracy by the cable companies to get people to stop watching local channels. LOL
The pixelating can last from a few seconds to minutes, and generally it’s when I want to see that part of the news or program. It rarely happens during a commercial. So, please tell me what that’s all about and how to stop it.
You need directional antenna. Pointed at transmitter. Possibly, a signal amp. Or, internet and good streaming service. Youtube pretty much has most of channels live anyway. Or, they simply stream live.
You could try a directional antenna, you could try relocating the antenna to a better spot, but you may be stuck with it. It is called "multipath interference" and has been around for ages. I remember seeing it on analog TV in the 1950s, when a DC-3 would fly up the valley. Before that, radio listeners used to complain of the interference when streetcars would pass by and the contact arm sparked.
Many local stations will simultaneously stream their news broadcasts.
(A signal amp is unlikely to work, as it just amplifies everything.)
I don’t have cable mostly because (before the pandemic), I worked a lot of hours away from home, so it just wasn’t worth the cost for the few hours of TV I would watch over the month.
Anyway, I have a smart TV with an antenna that I have setting behind the TV. I live near a metropolitan area. My problem is that different local stations will pixelate at different times. A plane might fly overhead. The sun might come out. There might be some shift in the galaxy that I’m unaware of. Maybe it’s a conspiracy by the cable companies to get people to stop watching local channels. LOL
The pixelating can last from a few seconds to minutes, and generally it’s when I want to see that part of the news or program. It rarely happens during a commercial. So, please tell me what that’s all about and how to stop it.
Thank you.
You need a better antenna. Put a directional one outside. "Setting behind the tv" is the worst place for one.
I’ll be moving the antenna around or getting a new one.
Strangely enough, I rarely had issues with an analog set, so when my TV pixelates, I yell at it and ask why it can’t be more like it’s analog sibling. LOL
I’ll be moving the antenna around or getting a new one.
Strangely enough, I rarely had issues with an analog set, so when my TV pixelates, I yell at it and ask why it can’t be more like it’s analog sibling. LOL
Not odd really. Analog signals just got snowy or degraded slowly. Digital works completely different.
Also, analog originally used to be in the VHF band, which is more forgiving than UHF, used for digital.
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