[goldilox]

I have had my Vista MCE rig for 6 months now. Up until 3 weeks ago I have had to put up with losing 7 ( & occasionally SBS) frequently, sometimes a few times a week...especially in wet, stormy weather.

I have applied all hotfixes to no avail. I was advised that the problem was a signal strength problem. I called in an antenna guy & he told me that I had excellent reception at the wall but advised me to get rid of all my "skinny" non-digital cables & el-cheapo splitters. Instead he told me to use thick black digital cables (about $10 each) and to loop the cables into/outof my old VCR, set-top box etc instead of using splitters. Still no joy. I then got hold of a signal amplifier but this resulted in no signal whatsoever getting to my MCE !!

As a last resort I went cold turkey & ran a cable from the wall directly into my MCE & am not linking in my VCR or set-top box. BINGO....I have not lost any channel for 3 weeks now !!

In my case, it seems that the problem is very much signal strength related. Too much strength & I lose all channels, too little & I lose 7 etc. atm I am learning to live on the knife edge & all is well. I hope my experiences are of some help to others.