Hi! All
I saw one of these advertised last year and asked for one for my Birthday/Christmas present and decided to take it on holiday and put it in to use, however the aerial system I tried it on I am not too sure about and it did not get any signal despite even the purchase of an amplifier from Sainsbury's.

As for home I tried it on an aerial run from the RF2 from the Sky box with no luck as well as the aerial which is amplified in the lounge and got some result which comes up signal overload, I also tried a portable indoor aerial which is compatible for DVB-T broadcasts but with no luck.

I have looked on the internet and seen they have quite a weak tuner so have you got one of these and have you got it working or should we try to get our money back?, I can try it on one more aerial which is run from the amplifier in the lounge to a bedroom tv in Mum and Dad's room that might work but other from that my tv which is hard to get to on the wall in my bedroom is the last option.

Have you got any suggestions as to ones which do work?.

Thanks in advance.

TV systems vary across the world. We have digital TV now in the UK whereas we used to have an analogue system called PAL. So unless your Neostar has exactly the correct version of TV tuner for the country you are visiting then you won't get a signal.

As for using it in the UK, there's a few things you need to do...

Signal strength is less important than signal quality.

The tuner has a range of signal levels it will work with. Too much is just as bad as too little. But something like a portable aerial may well deliver quite poor signal quality as well as not enough signal. It's not a good choice for trouble shooting. The signal from the house aerial would be a better choice. If that's overloading the Neostar but not the other house TVs then it suggests that tuner sensitivity in the Neostar isn't a problem.

If you know what you're doing then you can try taking the TV aerial feed out of the amp and putting it straight in to the recorder. See what results you get with a direct feed from the roof aerial to the recorder. If this works then you know that the recorder is okay, it just needs less signal. That's an easy fix. Buy a variable signal attenuator which will drop the signal level from any of the feeds out from the TV aerial amp.