TV and Movies

[SharkE]

Anybody else having trouble with the shows your watching disappearing

for about 10 minutes when your watching cable Tv ?

Happens every day central time about 12:45 p.m. till 1:00 p.m.  I found this on the internet.

Effects on satellites

One effect of equinoctial periods is the temporary disruption of communication satellites. For all geostationary satellites, there are a few days around the equinox when the Sun goes directly behind the satellite relative to Earth (i.e. within the beam-width of the ground-station antenna) for a short period each day. The Sun's immense power and broad radiation spectrum overload the Earth station's reception circuits with noise and, depending on antenna size and other factors, temporarily disrupt or degrade the circuit. The duration of those effects varies but can range from a few minutes to an hour. (For a given frequency band, a larger antenna has a narrower beam-width and hence experiences shorter duration "Sun outage" windows.)

Satellites in geostationary obit also experience difficulties maintaining power during the equinox because they have to travel through Earth's shadow and rely only on battery power. Usually, a satellite travels either north or south of the Earth's shadow because Earth's axis is not directly perpendicular to a line from the Earth to the Sun at other times. During the equinox, since geostationary satellites are situated above the Equator, they are in Earth's shadow for the longest duration all year.

[SharkE]

suppose to have to put up with this in March and Sept.

[geezerette]

Yes, I have--although I haven't noticed it at any specific time of day.  Nor does it happen every day, or on every channel.  The TV screen goes black all of a sudden.  Sometimes I can change to another channel and after a few minutes I can change back and the original channel is there again.  Sometimes my whole satellite receiver shuts down and reboots.

I thought it was all due to my equipment being old, but it might have something to do with this because it just started.  Interesting.

[Venezia]

That's an interesting explanation.

We've had problems for some time now (Spectrum) and we just had both of our receivers replaced.  It's still happening, although not as often, so it isn't the equipment.

They replaced the receivers because ours were about two years old and couldn't deal with the new frequencies for some channels.  And, of course, those were the channels we watch most often!

I have to say though, I was impressed with Spectrum's customer service and how fast they got someone out.  We've only been with them just under two years.  The previous provider we had (Consolidated - no choice at the time) was horrendous.  Lousy reception, lousy customer service and high bills.  We were so glad when we were finally able to switch to Spectrum.  I know some people complain about them, but we have zero complaints so far.  I can deal with an occasional blackout on a channel.

[SharkE]

I remember back when I had a satellite dish I experienced this all the time.

Since I've been now on cable I had forgotten about it. Then I looked it up on internet and as we all know everything is controlled by satellites in the skies.

Guess when you watch any 1 particular show during this time frame that's when it comes back to you. If your taping something and it's only a half hr. show, in my case, Gunsmoke, you sit thru the first 20 minutes then when something happens Boom ! screen goes black and when it comes back on the show is over. You go "well, **** what happened "?

I got to see if this occurs on ALL channels in ths 10 minute time frame or just ME TV..   Be glad when we get out of March LOL