Crackling on Grundig Freeview box....
 

What the subject title says.

When I take a look at Freeview, everything is fine with each channel
until I get some text on the screen, then I got this constant annoying
crackling/interference. So, for example, Sky Sports news, with the
latest news update banner at the bottom of the screen is in constant
crackle mode. Five live radio on 705 is fine for the first few seconds
until all the channel info and text appears then it goes again, and
strangely I can eradicate the crackling if I press the red button and
the '0' button to 'hide the screen' it goes. And a final example, the
channel guide, is also of a right din. It always seems to be text on
the screen that does the damage.

Any ideas?

This box is a few years old now, but has been working fine apart from
that.

Many thanks
Garry

Crackling on Grundig Freeview box....
 

In article ,
garryb59 wrote:

What the subject title says.

When I take a look at Freeview, everything is fine with each channel
until I get some text on the screen, then I got this constant annoying
crackling/interference. So, for example, Sky Sports news, with the
latest news update banner at the bottom of the screen is in constant
crackle mode. Five live radio on 705 is fine for the first few seconds
until all the channel info and text appears then it goes again, and
strangely I can eradicate the crackling if I press the red button and
the '0' button to 'hide the screen' it goes. And a final example, the
channel guide, is also of a right din. It always seems to be text on
the screen that does the damage.

Any ideas?

I wonder if you are watching via SCART or via the aerial lead. It sounds
like the latter and as if the picture is breaking through into the audio
section. Known as "Intercarrier Buzz". Watch via SCART instead.

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Crackling on Grundig Freeview box....
 

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:14:13 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
garryb59 wrote:

What the subject title says.

When I take a look at Freeview, everything is fine with each channel
until I get some text on the screen, then I got this constant annoying
crackling/interference. So, for example, Sky Sports news, with the
latest news update banner at the bottom of the screen is in constant
crackle mode. Five live radio on 705 is fine for the first few seconds
until all the channel info and text appears then it goes again, and
strangely I can eradicate the crackling if I press the red button and
the '0' button to 'hide the screen' it goes. And a final example, the
channel guide, is also of a right din. It always seems to be text on
the screen that does the damage.

Any ideas?

I wonder if you are watching via SCART or via the aerial lead. It sounds
like the latter and as if the picture is breaking through into the audio
section. Known as "Intercarrier Buzz". Watch via SCART instead.

Messing around with the cables/remote confirms this to be the case,
when watching through the scart everything is fine. I have a simple
setup: tv with single scart, VCR with two scarts and STB with two
scarts. To be honest I have a bit of a job figuring out what signal
feeds what and how it all fits together, but with only one scart on
the tv I can only watch either the STB or the VCR via scart. I think!

Many thanks for a quick reply.

cheers
Garry

Crackling on Grundig Freeview box....
 

In message , garryb59
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writes
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:14:13 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
garryb59 wrote:

What the subject title says.

When I take a look at Freeview, everything is fine with each channel
until I get some text on the screen, then I got this constant annoying
crackling/interference. So, for example, Sky Sports news, with the
latest news update banner at the bottom of the screen is in constant
crackle mode. Five live radio on 705 is fine for the first few seconds
until all the channel info and text appears then it goes again, and
strangely I can eradicate the crackling if I press the red button and
the '0' button to 'hide the screen' it goes. And a final example, the
channel guide, is also of a right din. It always seems to be text on
the screen that does the damage.

Any ideas?

I wonder if you are watching via SCART or via the aerial lead. It sounds
like the latter and as if the picture is breaking through into the audio
section. Known as "Intercarrier Buzz". Watch via SCART instead.

Messing around with the cables/remote confirms this to be the case,
when watching through the scart everything is fine. I have a simple
setup: tv with single scart, VCR with two scarts and STB with two
scarts. To be honest I have a bit of a job figuring out what signal
feeds what and how it all fits together, but with only one scart on
the tv I can only watch either the STB or the VCR via scart. I think!

Many thanks for a quick reply.

cheers
Garry
This sounds like the sort of noise that occurs if you tune your TV to
the video RF output, or any channel come to think of, it and it's not
quite in tune.
--
Ian

Crackling on Grundig Freeview box....
 

Thus spaketh Ian:
In message , garryb59
[email protected]?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.? .?.?.com.invalid
writes
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:14:13 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
garryb59 wrote:

What the subject title says.

When I take a look at Freeview, everything is fine with each
channel until I get some text on the screen, then I got this
constant annoying crackling/interference. So, for example, Sky
Sports news, with the latest news update banner at the bottom of
the screen is in constant crackle mode. Five live radio on 705 is
fine for the first few seconds until all the channel info and text
appears then it goes again, and strangely I can eradicate the
crackling if I press the red button and the '0' button to 'hide
the screen' it goes. And a final example, the channel guide, is
also of a right din. It always seems to be text on the screen that
does the damage.

Any ideas?

I wonder if you are watching via SCART or via the aerial lead. It
sounds like the latter and as if the picture is breaking through
into the audio section. Known as "Intercarrier Buzz". Watch via
SCART instead.

Messing around with the cables/remote confirms this to be the case,
when watching through the scart everything is fine. I have a simple
setup: tv with single scart, VCR with two scarts and STB with two
scarts. To be honest I have a bit of a job figuring out what signal
feeds what and how it all fits together, but with only one scart on
the tv I can only watch either the STB or the VCR via scart. I think!

Many thanks for a quick reply.

cheers
Garry
This sounds like the sort of noise that occurs if you tune your TV to
the video RF output, or any channel come to think of, it and it's not
quite in tune.


SCART to be wired: VCR to Freeview box, Freeview box to TV.


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