Something Strange Is Happening ..... !
 

Something very strange is happening....

I have 2 Nokia MediaMaster DVB 9850T set top boxes. 1 I have with me in
County Durham and the other is on loan to my daughter in Carlisle.

Last evening, Wednesday 25th May, I switched to ITV2 (6) and after about 30
secs the whole box was switched off. I had to unplug the unit from the mains
and then plug back in for it to work again. It came back on assigned to BBC1
(1). I switched it to ITV2 again and the same thing ghappened. Reset again
and switched to ITV1 (3) and the same thing happened. Leave it on BBC1 (1)
and everything is ok.
My daughter has just rang me to tell me that the set top box she has gone
wrong. Asked her to explain what happened and she told me exactly the
problem that I am having.

I use a Top Up TV card but she doesn't.

Closer investigation on my box. Unplugged scart lead form TV and watched
channel through RF modulator. Same thing happened when switched to ITV1 (3)
or ITV2 (6). Unplugged the aerial and set stays on channel with no problem
but obviously no signal = no picture. Plug aerial in again and problems
start again.

Seems funny that 2 boxes some 50 miles apart should have the same problems
on the same day.

Anyone any thoughts please...... I'm baffled, so much infact that I bought a
Thomson TUTV box from Argos ealier today.

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troubleinstore

"troubleinstore" wrote in message
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Something very strange is happening....

I have 2 Nokia MediaMaster DVB 9850T set top boxes. 1 I have with me in
County Durham and the other is on loan to my daughter in Carlisle.

Last evening, Wednesday 25th May, I switched to ITV2 (6) and after about
30 secs the whole box was switched off. I had to unplug the unit from the
mains and then plug back in for it to work again. It came back on assigned
to BBC1 (1). I switched it to ITV2 again and the same thing ghappened.
Reset again and switched to ITV1 (3) and the same thing happened. Leave it
on BBC1 (1) and everything is ok.
My daughter has just rang me to tell me that the set top box she has gone
wrong. Asked her to explain what happened and she told me exactly the
problem that I am having.

I use a Top Up TV card but she doesn't.

Closer investigation on my box. Unplugged scart lead form TV and watched
channel through RF modulator. Same thing happened when switched to ITV1
(3) or ITV2 (6). Unplugged the aerial and set stays on channel with no
problem but obviously no signal = no picture. Plug aerial in again and
problems start again.

Seems funny that 2 boxes some 50 miles apart should have the same problems
on the same day.

Anyone any thoughts please...... I'm baffled, so much infact that I bought
a Thomson TUTV box from Argos ealier today.

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troubleinstore



I had the same last night with the football. All is fine now and I've got
the same box I think (it's an old On Nokia box)

strange_too

strange_too strange_tooREMOVE wrote in message
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"troubleinstore" wrote in message
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Something very strange is happening....

I have 2 Nokia MediaMaster DVB 9850T set top boxes. 1 I have with me in
County Durham and the other is on loan to my daughter in Carlisle.

Last evening, Wednesday 25th May, I switched to ITV2 (6) and after about
30 secs the whole box was switched off. I had to unplug the unit from
the
mains and then plug back in for it to work again. It came back on
assigned
to BBC1 (1). I switched it to ITV2 again and the same thing ghappened.
Reset again and switched to ITV1 (3) and the same thing happened. Leave
it
on BBC1 (1) and everything is ok.
My daughter has just rang me to tell me that the set top box she has
gone
wrong. Asked her to explain what happened and she told me exactly the
problem that I am having.

I use a Top Up TV card but she doesn't.

Closer investigation on my box. Unplugged scart lead form TV and watched
channel through RF modulator. Same thing happened when switched to ITV1
(3) or ITV2 (6). Unplugged the aerial and set stays on channel with no
problem but obviously no signal = no picture. Plug aerial in again and
problems start again.

Seems funny that 2 boxes some 50 miles apart should have the same
problems
on the same day.

Anyone any thoughts please...... I'm baffled, so much infact that I
bought
a Thomson TUTV box from Argos ealier today.

--
troubleinstore



I had the same last night with the football. All is fine now and I've got
the same box I think (it's an old On Nokia box)

strange_too


I had the same thing with my media master this morning,kept shutting down ,
after I unplugged everything took the cover off and seeing nothing wrong
put it all back ,its running pefectly now very strange.
My other problem is last night i scanned for new channels with the media
master located E4/e4+1 no problem,did the same with my Goodmans GB3 ,it only
finds E+1 not E4 anybody any ideas by the way I'm on witer hill.
myk

Does the box normally find subscription channels because E4 is still a
subscription channel - You may find it appears when the encryption
disappears. I believe some boxes supress sub channels so they are not
displayed if they cannot be decrypted.





My other problem is last night i scanned for new channels with the media
master located E4/e4+1 no problem,did the same with my Goodmans GB3 ,it
only
finds E+1 not E4 anybody any ideas by the way I'm on witer hill.
myk

Just had it happen on ITV2 again, I checking whether it was still happening.

strange_too

In message ,
strange_too writes
Just had it happen on ITV2 again, I checking whether it was still happening.

strange_too


I have exactly the same problem here (Hampshire, Hannington TX). I
thought my Nokia had finally died, until I discovered it was only ITV
channels that caused the problem.

I have a theory. ITV have been transmitting a skeleton MHEG text
service, which says "coming soon" if you try to enter it. I think they
have just changed this basic service and are now transmitting something
on the MHEG layer that causes Nokia 9850T boxes to crash instantly. This
affects all the ITV channels only. What does anyone else think? God
knows, the Nokia crashes often enough on its own without help like this!

Peter

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Peter Wright

My other problem is last night i scanned for new channels with the
media master located E4/e4+1 no problem,did the same with my
Goodmans GB3, it only finds E+1 not E4 anybody any ideas by the way
I'm on witer hill.

"John Patrick" wrote

Does the box normally find subscription channels because E4 is still
a subscription channel - You may find it appears when the encryption
disappears. I believe some boxes supress sub channels so they are
not displayed if they cannot be decrypted.

*****

That's right - you probably have got the option set not to scan
encrypted channels. You can change it in the menu and scan now (but
you will get all the other TUTV channels), or you can wait until E4
goes unencrypted and then rescan.

André Coutanche

John Patrick wrote in message
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Does the box normally find subscription channels because E4 is still a
subscription channel - You may find it appears when the encryption
disappears. I believe some boxes supress sub channels so they are not
displayed if they cannot be decrypted.





My other problem is last night i scanned for new channels with the media
master located E4/e4+1 no problem,did the same with my Goodmans GB3 ,it
only
finds E+1 not E4 anybody any ideas by the way I'm on witer hill.
myk


Thanks John,
it was set to ignore encripted channels,changed it and it found it ok .
My other problem is still there though my media master cut out again on ITV2
half an hour ago,strange its only doing it on ITV2.
myk

Same thing here.

Coo, I was just about to buy a new STB as I thought my trusty Nokia
was on the way out.

Perhaps the unit has developed 'taste' and is automatically filtering
out the crap on ITV.

Martin.

On Thu, 26 May 2005 18:03:55 +0100, "troubleinstore"
wrote:

Something very strange is happening....

I have 2 Nokia MediaMaster DVB 9850T set top boxes. 1 I have with me in
County Durham and the other is on loan to my daughter in Carlisle.

Last evening, Wednesday 25th May, I switched to ITV2 (6) and after about 30
secs the whole box was switched off. I had to unplug the unit from the mains
and then plug back in for it to work again. It came back on assigned to BBC1
(1). I switched it to ITV2 again and the same thing ghappened. Reset again
and switched to ITV1 (3) and the same thing happened. Leave it on BBC1 (1)
and everything is ok.
My daughter has just rang me to tell me that the set top box she has gone
wrong. Asked her to explain what happened and she told me exactly the
problem that I am having.

I use a Top Up TV card but she doesn't.

Closer investigation on my box. Unplugged scart lead form TV and watched
channel through RF modulator. Same thing happened when switched to ITV1 (3)
or ITV2 (6). Unplugged the aerial and set stays on channel with no problem
but obviously no signal = no picture. Plug aerial in again and problems
start again.

Seems funny that 2 boxes some 50 miles apart should have the same problems
on the same day.

Anyone any thoughts please...... I'm baffled, so much infact that I bought a
Thomson TUTV box from Argos ealier today.

My old Nokia 9850T also crashes after 30 seconds, but only on the ITV
channels.

My guess was also some MHEG stuff, and seems to be confirmed, as if I change
to an ITV channel,
and repeatedly hit EXIT during the first 10 seconds or so, I can watch,
without the box apparently switching off (display goes out too)

Hope they switch it off again soon, as surely they can't be expecting to
start some new ITV interactive stuff, where people like myself,
with old an old box can't even watch the channel.

While I'm thinking about it, is there any way on the 9850T to disable MHEG
altogether?

Vin.


"Martin Elliff" wrote in message
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Same thing here.

Coo, I was just about to buy a new STB as I thought my trusty Nokia
was on the way out.

Perhaps the unit has developed 'taste' and is automatically filtering
out the crap on ITV.

Martin.

On Thu, 26 May 2005 18:03:55 +0100, "troubleinstore"
wrote:

Something very strange is happening....

I have 2 Nokia MediaMaster DVB 9850T set top boxes. 1 I have with me in
County Durham and the other is on loan to my daughter in Carlisle.

Last evening, Wednesday 25th May, I switched to ITV2 (6) and after about
30
secs the whole box was switched off. I had to unplug the unit from the
mains
and then plug back in for it to work again. It came back on assigned to
BBC1
(1). I switched it to ITV2 again and the same thing ghappened. Reset again
and switched to ITV1 (3) and the same thing happened. Leave it on BBC1 (1)
and everything is ok.
My daughter has just rang me to tell me that the set top box she has gone
wrong. Asked her to explain what happened and she told me exactly the
problem that I am having.

I use a Top Up TV card but she doesn't.

Closer investigation on my box. Unplugged scart lead form TV and watched
channel through RF modulator. Same thing happened when switched to ITV1
(3)
or ITV2 (6). Unplugged the aerial and set stays on channel with no problem
but obviously no signal = no picture. Plug aerial in again and problems
start again.

Seems funny that 2 boxes some 50 miles apart should have the same problems
on the same day.

Anyone any thoughts please...... I'm baffled, so much infact that I bought
a
Thomson TUTV box from Argos ealier today.