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Digital change over problems
Earlier this week BBC2 analogue was switched off on the Caradon Hill
transmitter and we were advised to retune TVs. My newer Toshiba retuned OK. However, my older Sony KV-28DX30U digital TV will not now receive BBC1, BBC2 or channel 5. I have tried both automatic programme search and manual tuning and can't find these channels. Both TVs are on the same aerial system and reception is 'good' according to the Toshiba. Can anyone help/advise please? Perhaps my Sony - I believe one of the first digital TVs- cannot receive these new channels. Its programme sort function on it has always been dodgy. Peter |
Digital change over problems
Mark Carver wrote:
I think your TV is too old to be modified (sometimes a software update can be applied to enable 8k working) Check with Sony, and if they don't know what you're talking about, refer them to this link:- I had to call Sony about a similar TV. This was the reply. Having checked our data base i can confirm that the television that you have is not compatible with the 8K transmition that is going to happen when the switch over begins. When the original sets were designed and marketed, Sony was not aware that the Government would make further changes to the broadcast system and these changes were not specified when we designed the sets. As a result, Sony is not responsible for the incompatibility of our early sets. Simon. |
Digital change over problems
Thanks for comments and info.. I have also contacted SONY and they told me
there is no fix and I should purchase a set top box!! Peter "Simon Higgs" wrote in message valid... Mark Carver wrote: I think your TV is too old to be modified (sometimes a software update can be applied to enable 8k working) Check with Sony, and if they don't know what you're talking about, refer them to this link:- I had to call Sony about a similar TV. This was the reply. Having checked our data base i can confirm that the television that you have is not compatible with the 8K transmition that is going to happen when the switch over begins. When the original sets were designed and marketed, Sony was not aware that the Government would make further changes to the broadcast system and these changes were not specified when we designed the sets. As a result, Sony is not responsible for the incompatibility of our early sets. Simon. |
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Digital change over problems
In message , Peter Duncanson
writes On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:54:05 +0100, (Alan Pemberton) wrote: Simon Higgs wrote: I had to call Sony about a similar TV. This was the reply. Having checked our data base i can confirm that the television that you have is not compatible with the 8K transmition that is going to happen when the switch over begins. When the original sets were designed and marketed, Sony was not aware that the Government would make further changes to the broadcast system and these changes were not specified when we designed the sets. As a result, Sony is not responsible for the incompatibility of our early sets. Amazing, isn't it? A wireless set built in the 1920s could still work today. A telly built in 1936 could still have worked until the 405-line service closed down in 1985. A vhf radio built in 1955 could still work today in mono. A 625-line telly built in 1964 could still work today in B&W. A vhf stereo radio built in 1967 could still work today. A colour telly built in 1967 could still work today. A teletext receiver built in 1976 could still work today. A DVB-T telly made this century is obsolete. Isn't it analogous to the 405-line telly? A DVB-T telly made this century would continue to work if compatible transmissions continued. http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/ It says, "Perhaps you thought that 405-line television died out in 1985? Not at all!" -- Ian |
Digital change over problems
"Alan Pemberton" wrote in message rve.co.uk.invalid... Simon Higgs wrote: I had to call Sony about a similar TV. This was the reply. Having checked our data base i can confirm that the television that you have is not compatible with the 8K transmition that is going to happen when the switch over begins. When the original sets were designed and marketed, Sony was not aware that the Government would make further changes to the broadcast system and these changes were not specified when we designed the sets. As a result, Sony is not responsible for the incompatibility of our early sets. Amazing, isn't it? A wireless set built in the 1920s could still work today. A telly built in 1936 could still have worked until the 405-line service closed down in 1985. A vhf radio built in 1955 could still work today in mono. A 625-line telly built in 1964 could still work today in B&W. A vhf stereo radio built in 1967 could still work today. A colour telly built in 1967 could still work today. A teletext receiver built in 1976 could still work today. A DVB-T telly made this century is obsolete. But it'll have been made in China with a designed life expectancy of a couple of years anyway. Steve Terry |
Digital change over problems
wrote:
Thanks for comments and info.. I have also contacted SONY and they told me there is no fix and I should purchase a set top box!! Don't feel so bad, a friend of mine had the same model TV, but his went bang and blew itself up in a cloud of black smoke last Christmas, so it never even made it to DSO. -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. www.paras.org.uk |
Digital change over problems
A teletext receiver built in 1976 could still work today. But the ones built in 74 & 75 were rendered useless :-( -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
Digital change over problems
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:43:38 +0100, Ian Jackson
wrote: In message , Peter Duncanson writes On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:54:05 +0100, (Alan Pemberton) wrote: Simon Higgs wrote: I had to call Sony about a similar TV. This was the reply. Having checked our data base i can confirm that the television that you have is not compatible with the 8K transmition that is going to happen when the switch over begins. When the original sets were designed and marketed, Sony was not aware that the Government would make further changes to the broadcast system and these changes were not specified when we designed the sets. As a result, Sony is not responsible for the incompatibility of our early sets. Amazing, isn't it? A wireless set built in the 1920s could still work today. A telly built in 1936 could still have worked until the 405-line service closed down in 1985. A vhf radio built in 1955 could still work today in mono. A 625-line telly built in 1964 could still work today in B&W. A vhf stereo radio built in 1967 could still work today. A colour telly built in 1967 could still work today. A teletext receiver built in 1976 could still work today. A DVB-T telly made this century is obsolete. Isn't it analogous to the 405-line telly? A DVB-T telly made this century would continue to work if compatible transmissions continued. http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/ It says, "Perhaps you thought that 405-line television died out in 1985? Not at all!" I wonder whether there are enough 405-line enthusiasts to make it worthwhile to build a box that would take digital stuff and downscale it to 405 lines and remove the colour. -- Peter Duncanson (in uk.tech.digital-tv) |
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