OT; Freeview

[The Medway Handyman]

Just bought a new Samsung telly which apparently has a Freeview tuner.

No mention of it in the destructions - any idea how you activate/access it?

Or do I need a box of some kind?

[Adrian C]

The Remote Control is boxed shaped?

:-)

Try finding the setup menu, first time installation or something.

And choose "digital".

If that fails, what model is it?

[Peter]

Methinks... menu..digital setup...channel search

You should get lotsa radio and tv channels

Peter

[Tim Watts]

I have 2 Samsungs.

One (the larger) can be set into DTV or ATV mode and stays that way (look on the remote for "DTV" or "Source" or somthing like that.

The other can use either in "TV" mode - bring up the channel/programme listing adn page-cycle through them. You may find that the next page goes back to Channel 001 or 01 but has an A in front or mentions Analogue. I've found typing channel numbers in the remote brings up digital on some and analogue on others(!) - but that model seems to have firmware weirdnesses.

Also, have a rummage in the Setup - and see if you can find the Auto-Tune section - that often has a separate option for Tune/Seek ATV vs DTV.

What model is it exactly?

There should be no way you bought a non digital TV these days seeing as analogue is for the chop soon.

[Adrian C]

B550 or something? I rang and complained. Very nice lady understood what I was yapping on about and insisted that it was not possible to disable the analogue tuner, and that they made it that way so that old CCTV and Video recorders could still work in that mode.

True.

[The Natural Philosopher]

No. just plug and play

[Rick Hughes]

We have Samsungs ... on the remote you need to switch it to Digital On mine there is a TV/DTV button ... default is analogue ... switch it to DTV#Then go into setup menu ... there is an option that looks like a sat dish and select auto tune.

[The Medway Handyman]

Done that, its picked up the terrestial channels and tuned all the cable stuff from the Virgin box.

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[The Medway Handyman]

I did - all those from the Virgin box.

No mention anywhere of Freeview.

[The Medway Handyman]

I have 'source' but only 2 choices are active - terrestial & cable - all the others come up with 'no device found'.

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> There should be no way you bought a non digital TV these days seeing

Its fully HD apparently. 1080p? Whatever that means.

[The Medway Handyman]

BTDTGTTS

[Andy Burns]

The Freeview postcode checker isn't the most accurate guide ever known, but it doesn't seem to offer much hope

at switchover in 2012, even then you'll only get the cutdown version of freeview

[The Medway Handyman]

Not got a TV/DTV button. Only a TV button. This switches betwen the Virgin box & terrestial. Setup menu lists TV (terrestial) and EN1 (Virgin) none of the other options work - just get a message about 'no connection'.

[Tim Watts]

Looks a bit like mine.

Try page 20 in the full (not quickstart) manual for doing digital auto store;

Then bring up teh channel list and page down (sometimes the prog up/down buttons do paging and always the up/down menu buttons do next/prev channel). Keep going until the channel doesn;t have a little "A" in a box - then it's digital. Press "OK" (middle of the 4 menu arrow keys) to select.

I agree, it's not a very intuitive interface.

OTOH your TV runs linux, so in theory to could do some DIY mods ;->

(There are a band of nutters doing exactly this somewhere).

[Andy Burns]

It means nothing at all in relation to freeview.

What it means, is that you can feed a high definition signal to it (via HDMI cable) from a blu-ray player, playstation3 or (after 2012) a freeviewHD set top box.

[The Medway Handyman]

Thanks for that Andy.

Why didn't the bastards at Comet tell me that?

[T i m]

Erm, how have you got it connected to be able to 'tune' all the stuff from both sources?

I think you should have the aerial going into your TV and the cable going into your cable box that then (probably) connects to your TV via HDMI or Scart?

Cheers, T i m

[Rod]

Have you got an aerial that works or are you getting the terrestrial analogue through the Virgin connection? (Haven't checked in years to see if analogue is still being piped down the cable.) Is it plugged in to the TV?

[The Medway Handyman]

Hang on. Shouldn't the Freevew come down the cable? Is it transmitted the 'old way'?

[Andy Burns]

Ignore the street route, just look at pointA and pointB

's your line of sight to Bluebell Hill like? Does your aerial point there?