For some time now, since about October/November, we have had interference on our TV reception, this last few weeks it's become really bad, sometimes you can barely see the picture for rolling, most of the time the picture is grainy.  The sound goes too at times.  Yesterday we lost reception totally - nothing, nichts, nada.  However if we put a DVD in and play that the picture is perfectly clear and so is the sound, same with video.

Is this because of the impending digital switchover?  are they try8ing to make me buy a box or a new TV?  We don't have switchover until 2010 according to the websites, so what's going on?

Anyone in South Wales having similar problems?

Anyone had the same problems before switchover?

We don't watch much TV but it would be nice to actually see it properly when we do ;)

We have got the switch over in November and I have heard a few announcements that reception may be interupted but haven't actually noticed any.  I don't watch TV much though.

Sounds like you have a problem with the aerial, which would explain why DVDs will work. You haven't moved the DVD player or similar have you? Only at one point I put my freeview box on top of my DVD player and then I couldn't see a thing, the picture was that bad -turned out the two could not sit that close together as they interfered with each other and when moved all worked fine.

We suffer with picture problems when the weather is bad.
But we aren't in South Wales but South Oxfordshire.
Again we think it's the aerial & perhaps the old terrestrial signals aren't as strong as they used to be?
We never used to have this problem a few years back.

Do you still have an arial?  Not a dish?

OH and I are looking at getting sky because our signal is so poor in our new house.  I've also found that many appliances in the house make it worse - such as washing machine and OH's computer.  We have freeview but it is plugged into the arial.  I think that the strong winds and snow during the winter have also dunted the horrid thing so it is only a matter of time before we get rid of it.  We are the only people in the neighbourhood who doesn't have sky lol.

We have an arial not a dish.  It's inside and hasn't been moved at all.  Until October/November the reception was perfect, no interference at all.  Have found the website of the transmitter and no problems identified, although they are gearing up to swapping over.  Not many people in our area have just an arial now - they all seem to be on Sky and have a dish.  Don't want SKY and won't have a dish.

> OH and I are looking at getting sky because our signal is so poor in our new house. 

Thats the exact reason we got sky, when we moved into the house we are in now, 11 years ago, it was the only option, the signal was very poor due to being in a valley and due to being surrounded by millions of trees LOL which i dont think helped! Even with sky though if our trees grow too tall, it distorts the signal

We have the same problem when the weather is really good or really bad.. We have digital TV and often get some channels not responding or broken pictures or like you as well no sound.
Certain channels do this as well on normal tv as well.
We live in the south-east.