U.K. Built in freeserve Bush TV 1yr old fine on a sh.... day but get a nice sunny day be ready for pixilation usually early to late evening starts to pixilate then steadies, then heavy pixitlation on freeserve channels especially 64 and 70. Fine one to two hours early evening and then starts to pixilate then completely lose the stations?
External digital aerial and on booster box. Have two but living room one is fine no pixilation so it can't bet the aerial. As the BBC says 'we charge for receiving' so will be logging all the times I'm not receiving and will deduct the value of lost receiving from the license fee.

bob, April 2015

Blimey Hae ye bin hidin' in th' cairngorms?

Something great came from Scotland others unwritten or forgotten.
Thank you for your expertly written explanation can't swop over sets 'er in doors' will tear my throat out.
But watch the other set when 'er in doors' is out or buy a signal booster stick in on the aerial box then plug in the bush tv see if that makes a difference.
So BBC don't do the license farmed it out. Seems like UK is owned by foreigners no need to say governments selling off UK Seems they already done it.

Bob, April 2015

Your TV is working perfectly.

Digital technology pixilates the image if the signal is too weak to build up the intended picture.

TV reception tends to vary in strength during the day - and not all transmitters send out all the channels so your problem channels will just be the weakest - from a weak or distant transmitter.

The reason one TV works fine and the other doesn't will very probably be down to the quality of the signal being presented to the set - cable lengths and integrity of the connectors.

Your license is for equipment CAPABLE of receiving signals - not for tuning in.

The BBC have nothing to do with TV licensing - it's a government agency who contract out to Capita who in turn subcontract to other firms.

You will not get your money back.

Both channels 64 & 70 are owned by CBS Studios International - CBS Action & Horror Channel - the fact that all other channels work OK and these two do not strongly suggests an issue with those particular channels and where they come from rather than the set itself.

With the old analogue TVs poor signal strength caused a degraded picture - people called it interference - with digital transmission poor signal results first in pixilation and then no picture at all.

You will just have to watch those channels on the other TV.

Have you attempted to swap the TVs over?

John Logie Baird, April 2015