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Hi,
All of a sudden I have a very faint shadowy picture from my Humax, the sound
is OK though. I've checked RF cable, rebooted box and changed SCART in case
a pin was damaged but all to no avail. The analogue picture on the Samsung
LCD is fine. Is my Freeview box knackered?!
Thanks for your help.

Ruth

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On 23 Jul, 19:30, "Ruth" wrote:
Hi,
All of a sudden I have a very faint shadowy picture from my Humax, the sound
is OK though. I've checked RF cable, rebooted box and changed SCART in case
a pin was damaged but all to no avail. The analogue picture on the Samsung
LCD is fine. Is my Freeview box knackered?!
Thanks for your help.

Ruth

Try one or two things as a test:

1)Plug another item, DVD or VCR into that socket on the tv to test it.

2)The Humax has a modulator so unplug the scart lead, choose a spare
channel on the TV and tune it until you find the output from the Humax
and see what the pic is like. (It is best to press "menu" on the Humax
first so you recognise it when you find it.

3)Try taking the scart lead from the "VCR" socket on the Humax, rather
than from the "TV" socket. (You will manually have to select AV1 or
Ext 1 on the TV as there is no auto switching from the "VCR" socket.)

4)If the above (3) works, go into the Humax "Preferences" "AV Control"
menu and set the output to CVBS rather than RGB and see what happens.

**What make of TV do you have?

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"widgitt" wrote in message
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On 23 Jul, 19:30, "Ruth" wrote:
Hi,
All of a sudden I have a very faint shadowy picture from my Humax, the
sound
is OK though. I've checked RF cable, rebooted box and changed SCART in
case
a pin was damaged but all to no avail. The analogue picture on the
Samsung
LCD is fine. Is my Freeview box knackered?!
Thanks for your help.

Ruth

Try one or two things as a test:

1)Plug another item, DVD or VCR into that socket on the tv to test it.

2)The Humax has a modulator so unplug the scart lead, choose a spare
channel on the TV and tune it until you find the output from the Humax
and see what the pic is like. (It is best to press "menu" on the Humax
first so you recognise it when you find it.

3)Try taking the scart lead from the "VCR" socket on the Humax, rather
than from the "TV" socket. (You will manually have to select AV1 or
Ext 1 on the TV as there is no auto switching from the "VCR" socket.)

4)If the above (3) works, go into the Humax "Preferences" "AV Control"
menu and set the output to CVBS rather than RGB and see what happens.

**What make of TV do you have?


Thanks very much for these suggestions, I'll go and try them now. The TV
which is always connected to the Humax is a 19" Samsung LCD (2nd TV)

Ruth

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"Ruth" wrote in message
...
Hi,
All of a sudden I have a very faint shadowy picture from my Humax, the
sound is OK though. I've checked RF cable, rebooted box and changed SCART
in case a pin was damaged but all to no avail. The analogue picture on the
Samsung LCD is fine. Is my Freeview box knackered?!
Thanks for your help.

Ruth

Is the box set to output RGB or composite?
Have you tried a different TV?

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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"Graham" wrote in message
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"Ruth" wrote in message
...
Hi,
All of a sudden I have a very faint shadowy picture from my Humax, the
sound is OK though. I've checked RF cable, rebooted box and changed
SCART in case a pin was damaged but all to no avail. The analogue picture
on the Samsung LCD is fine. Is my Freeview box knackered?!
Thanks for your help.

Ruth

Is the box set to output RGB or composite?
Have you tried a different TV?

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%


Yes, box set to RGB and has been working great up until now. I have not
tried a different TV. Will do that along with other suggestions above.
Many thanks
Ruth

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"widgitt" wrote in message
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On 23 Jul, 19:30, "Ruth" wrote:
Hi,
All of a sudden I have a very faint shadowy picture from my Humax, the
sound
is OK though. I've checked RF cable, rebooted box and changed SCART in
case
a pin was damaged but all to no avail. The analogue picture on the
Samsung
LCD is fine. Is my Freeview box knackered?!
Thanks for your help.

Ruth

Try one or two things as a test:

1)Plug another item, DVD or VCR into that socket on the tv to test it.

2)The Humax has a modulator so unplug the scart lead, choose a spare
channel on the TV and tune it until you find the output from the Humax
and see what the pic is like. (It is best to press "menu" on the Humax
first so you recognise it when you find it.

3)Try taking the scart lead from the "VCR" socket on the Humax, rather
than from the "TV" socket. (You will manually have to select AV1 or
Ext 1 on the TV as there is no auto switching from the "VCR" socket.)

4)If the above (3) works, go into the Humax "Preferences" "AV Control"
menu and set the output to CVBS rather than RGB and see what happens.

**What make of TV do you have?


Plugged in DVD player to Samsung TV and the picture is the same as with
Humax. SCART socket must be knackered then? So I've tuned the Humax in on
channel six on the TV and it's fine!! Great, thanks you've saved me
spending another £60!!!
Thanks to you both for taking the time to reply, much appreciated.

Ruth

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Had an idea!!

I was called to a Samsung 19" that I had sold. It had gone very very
dark. Almost no pic. It turned out that almost all picture menu
settings had dropped to zero suddenly on their own. Resetting them
solved it.

NOW.....The larger Samsung LCD's and plasmas store different picture
memory settings for tuner input and each other input (scart, component
etc)

If yours has dropped the settings for the scart input down to zero (or
almost) and left the tuner settings normal, it would look as yours
does.

SO, plug the scart back in, get the bad pic back again and go to the
menu and bring the contrast, brightness and colour settings back up if
they have gone very low.

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....snip...

Plugged in DVD player to Samsung TV and the picture is the same as with
Humax. SCART socket must be knackered then? So I've tuned the Humax in on
channel six on the TV and it's fine!! Great, thanks you've saved me
spending another £60!!!
Thanks to you both for taking the time to reply, much appreciated.

Ruth


If it's under guarentee, take it back! Even if it's not, it's worth trying
anyway, mentioning "fit for purpose" and making a loud fuss in the middle of
the store (don't let them direct you to an office where they can ignore you
without other customers seeing :-) ).

If you Google this NG from a while back, you'll find references to court
cases that have set the precedence that a TV should work for longer than a
year to be deemed "fit for purpose".

Your TV is broken and it's not your fault. If you get nowhere with the
store, contact Samsung. Might be worth a quick Google to see whether you're
not the only person with this problem.

Umm, quick thought, haven't whacked the brightness or contrast up have you?
Worth checking in case there is some oddity with the LCD that's only shown
when using the SCART. Unlikely but worth a quick check.

Paul DS.

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"widgitt" wrote in message
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Had an idea!!

I was called to a Samsung 19" that I had sold. It had gone very very
dark. Almost no pic. It turned out that almost all picture menu
settings had dropped to zero suddenly on their own. Resetting them
solved it.

NOW.....The larger Samsung LCD's and plasmas store different picture
memory settings for tuner input and each other input (scart, component
etc)

If yours has dropped the settings for the scart input down to zero (or
almost) and left the tuner settings normal, it would look as yours
does.

SO, plug the scart back in, get the bad pic back again and go to the
menu and bring the contrast, brightness and colour settings back up if
they have gone very low.


Well , you and Paul are dead right about the settings! The picture mode had
reset itself to CUSTOM instead of STANDARD. What a mad telly!! It's never
done that before. Anyway, I've learnt something in that the settings for
external appliances can be different from those for the tuner. I always
thought once you had set the TV brightness and so on, that was it for
whatever you were watching.

Thanks again!

Ruth

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....snip...

Don't have small children do you? It's amazing how adept they are at
"finding" those strange features on modern equipment.

Paul DS.