I find that it is necessary to retune the thing from time time but it is failing to tune any station other than a BBC station, hence I can't get ITV or Channel 4 on it. Now unless this is some sort of transmitter fault what is going on here?
Why are HDD/DVD recorders so tempremental?
Kevin
Built down to a cost, and then after that they leave the bits out.
What is it? Do you have a problem with freeview?
Not sure what you mean. I am receiving analogue (I assume). It is a Panasonic DMR-EX79. It says Freeview+ and Guideplus on the front of it. It has only gone like this tonight so I assume it might be a transmitter problem. I have tried to retune it several times but it only sets up the BBC stations each time.
Kevin
In message , Zen83237 writes
Never had such a problem
HOWEVER ...
if you are experiencing problems with ITV, CH4, more4 E4, and a few others, they are all multiplexed together and you have a problem with MUX2
A problem I have been experiencing lately
In areas that still have analogue transmissions:
ITV/CH4 use a less robust transmission system. If your signal is on the edge then they are the first to go.
If you are in an area adjacent to an area where analogue has been switched off, then the digital power increase there may be wiping out your usual station.
I would suspect you have an aerial that is marginal and needs repair. Probably the cable. Interference may be also the cause but that is usually intermittent leading to pixellation/dropouts.
I have a had a lot of problems in the past sorted out by an aerial engineer who did suggest replacing the existing system anyway because of the analogue swith off. Following him sorting out a dodgey connection it was ok. Maybe I now need to do a complete upgrade. Every time I switch on it says a new DVB channel has been found and asks me to go through DVB auto setup. Having gone through that it then asks to go through the whole cycle again and again and again.
Kevin
That might be a symptom of the setting seeing signals from more than one Tx, particularly if the two Tx are from different regions. If you have a strong signal on the channels you want fitting an attenuater might reduce the other, hopefuly weaker, Tx below the level that causes trouble.
In article , Zen83237 scribeth thus
Doubt you need an aerial upgrade or repair unless you are in a very difficult reception area. There're sodding around with the Freeview system a lot in various parts of the UK and it seems will be doing so for quite sometime yet!...
I just pulled all the cables out of the tv, recorder and the wall, reconnected them and retuned and it is ok now. How sensitive is that.
Kevin
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There's sometimes a problem as the STB tries to add channels, and finds something already there. Try doing a reset to factory defaults and start again.
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Hope this helps, It cured mine.
Sat
There is a lot of xmitter work being undertaken at the moment re switchover, which is making TV & Video cranky.
My own TV makes a static "click" from the speaker, goes black, then the green LED begins flickering as it reselects the channel. Tonight on BBC the mute button turns itself off after a few minutes, with "info bar" & DVB popping up on the screen. Yesterday teletext was either unresponsive or kept kicking back to TV. Other times you can't change channel. Remote can suffer lag, unresponsive, as though it is doing something else at the same time.
Colleague had even more bizarre behaviour from his DVD recorders which ended up scrambled and was told to perform a hard reset. That covers Panasonic, Sony & Humax - common failure across all simultaneously is unlikely.
Software updates are sent out for various TV & Recorders which may be an issue, less picture breakup than when they were fiddling at the early starts of the changeover when one weekend was just atrocious with several mainstream channels unusable.
There seems to be a lack of communication, perhaps to make people go and buy spare "bedroom" TVs :-)
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