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Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
The customer had bought a new Sony TV set, then found there was no DTT
where he lived. Over the phone I suggested Freesat. He had a look at the back of the set and it had an 'f' input with a satellite symbol. But it didn't have a satellite tuner! There's no suggestion that he'd been mislead because the set wasn't sold as having Freesat, but it's one to watch out for. Bill |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
" wrote in message ... The customer had bought a new Sony TV set, then found there was no DTT where he lived. Over the phone I suggested Freesat. He had a look at the back of the set and it had an 'f' input with a satellite symbol. But it didn't have a satellite tuner! There's no suggestion that he'd been mislead because the set wasn't sold as having Freesat, but it's one to watch out for. Certainly is. On my TV sets you can see 'knock out' pieces on the backs to where extra sockets would appear on more featured models, but never have I seen an actual non working socket. Regards David |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
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Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
On May 24, 4:28*pm, Adrian wrote:
wrote: The customer had bought a new Sony TV set, then found there was no DTT where he lived. Over the phone I suggested Freesat. He had a look at the back of the set and it had an 'f' input with a satellite symbol. But it didn't have a satellite tuner! There's no suggestion that he'd been mislead because the set wasn't sold as having Freesat, but it's one to watch out for. Bill What's the model number? It's very unusual for a maker to add unnecessary parts. -- Adrian It's KDL-37V58XX according to the instructions and 37V5810 on the back of the set. The instructions make no mention of Freesat. Serial 4001909 Date : 10/2009. Bill |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
" wrote in
message ... On May 24, 4:28 pm, Adrian wrote: wrote: The customer had bought a new Sony TV set, then found there was no DTT where he lived. Over the phone I suggested Freesat. He had a look at the back of the set and it had an 'f' input with a satellite symbol. But it didn't have a satellite tuner! There's no suggestion that he'd been mislead because the set wasn't sold as having Freesat, but it's one to watch out for. Bill What's the model number? It's very unusual for a maker to add unnecessary parts. -- Adrian It's KDL-37V58XX according to the instructions and 37V5810 on the back of the set. The instructions make no mention of Freesat. Serial 4001909 Date : 10/2009. Bill According to the Sony web site (Google is your friend) it DOES have Freesat..... http://www.sony.co.uk/product/t32-v-series/kdl-37v5810 -- Woody harrogate three at ntlworld dot com |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
"Woody" wrote in message ... " wrote in message ... On May 24, 4:28 pm, Adrian wrote: wrote: The customer had bought a new Sony TV set, then found there was no DTT where he lived. Over the phone I suggested Freesat. He had a look at the back of the set and it had an 'f' input with a satellite symbol. But it didn't have a satellite tuner! There's no suggestion that he'd been mislead because the set wasn't sold as having Freesat, but it's one to watch out for. Bill What's the model number? It's very unusual for a maker to add unnecessary parts. -- Adrian It's KDL-37V58XX according to the instructions and 37V5810 on the back of the set. The instructions make no mention of Freesat. Serial 4001909 Date : 10/2009. Bill According to the Sony web site (Google is your friend) it DOES have Freesat..... http://www.sony.co.uk/product/t32-v-series/kdl-37v5810 Manual http://pdf.crse.com/manuals/4159943121.pdf Page 6 Satellite Tuning. Regards David |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
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Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
On May 24, 7:05*pm, Adrian wrote:
wrote: On May 24, 4:28 pm, Adrian wrote: wrote: The customer had bought a new Sony TV set, then found there was no DTT where he lived. Over the phone I suggested Freesat. He had a look at the back of the set and it had an 'f' input with a satellite symbol. But it didn't have a satellite tuner! There's no suggestion that he'd been mislead because the set wasn't sold as having Freesat, but it's one to watch out for. Bill What's the model number? It's very unusual for a maker to add unnecessary parts. -- Adrian It's KDL-37V58XX according to the instructions and 37V5810 on the back of the set. The instructions make no mention of Freesat. Serial 4001909 Date : 10/2009. Bill Page 20 of the use manual says, TV system says Satellite DVB-S/DVB-S2 -- Adrian- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yes, the problem is that satellite doesn't appear as an option in the 'source' menu. We now suspect that a factory reset and/or a re-tune WITH A DISH CONNECTED is required. Bill |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:59:45 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote: Yes, the problem is that satellite doesn't appear as an option in the 'source' menu. We now suspect that a factory reset and/or a re-tune WITH A DISH CONNECTED is required. Bill Bill's starting to sound like one of his own customers. G. |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
On May 24, 9:14*pm, Adrian wrote:hearthttp://
community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk- Hide quoted Cats leave pawprints on your heart Our cats left urine everywhere. I had them all shot. Bill |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
So much for all the publicity on checking the area via post code before you
buy your new telly? As for extra sockets, I can recall many moons ago, a tv with a multipin socket masked off with a push in bit of plastic which said 625 adaptor. The daft thing of course back in those 405 line days was that when 625 did come, there was no way any adaptor set into this socket would work. Then there is the phantom computer add on. amstrad used to promote the coming soon item of the SI1 for its +2A Spectrum as a disc drive interface, and there was a socket for it, but it was never actually made! I'm surethough that it must say something about the cost of connectors if Sony can just bung up a hole with one when they get a few case parts with an extra hole. Brian -- Brian Gaff - Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff' in the display name may be lost. Blind user, so no pictures please! " wrote in message ... The customer had bought a new Sony TV set, then found there was no DTT where he lived. Over the phone I suggested Freesat. He had a look at the back of the set and it had an 'f' input with a satellite symbol. But it didn't have a satellite tuner! There's no suggestion that he'd been mislead because the set wasn't sold as having Freesat, but it's one to watch out for. Bill |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
"Grappler" wrote in message ... On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:59:45 -0700 (PDT), " wrote: Yes, the problem is that satellite doesn't appear as an option in the 'source' menu. We now suspect that a factory reset and/or a re-tune WITH A DISH CONNECTED is required. Bill Bill's starting to sound like one of his own customers. He he. Should've RTFM. Z |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
On 25/05/2010 09:10, Zimmy wrote:
"Grappler" wrote in message Bill's starting to sound like one of his own customers. He he. Should've RTFM. Rung Tetley's For More? -- Adrian C |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
On Tue, 25 May 2010 09:31:56 +0100, Adrian C wrote:
Rung Tetley's For More? Surely he only drinks Yorkshire Gold? |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
On May 25, 3:41*pm, J G Miller wrote:
On Tue, 25 May 2010 09:31:56 +0100, Adrian C wrote: Rung Tetley's For More? Surely he only drinks Yorkshire Gold? I'll have you know I've very cosmopolitan. I drink beer from Lancashire sometimes! Bill PS, actually, seriously, the products of the Howard Town Brewery, Glossop, are all excellent. |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
Got a cure for that. Years ago we had a neighbour with a cat that
was a bl**dy nuisance - always depositing in our garden and digging. One day I went out and made friends with it and as it was walking away I gave it a good squirt of freezer spray right up the ........ Shift? I should say so!! Never came near me or the garden again. -- Woody harrogate three at ntlworld dot com |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message ... So much for all the publicity on checking the area via post code before you buy your new telly? As for extra sockets, I can recall many moons ago, a tv with a multipin socket masked off with a push in bit of plastic which said 625 adaptor. The daft thing of course back in those 405 line days was that when 625 did come, there was no way any adaptor set into this socket would work. Then there is the phantom computer add on. amstrad used to promote the coming soon item of the SI1 for its +2A Spectrum as a disc drive interface, and there was a socket for it, but it was never actually made! I'm surethough that it must say something about the cost of connectors if Sony can just bung up a hole with one when they get a few case parts with an extra hole. Brian And Sky boxes all had a CAM socket of some sort on the back, and an "interactive" card slot on the front -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
"Woody" wrote in message
... Got a cure for that. Years ago we had a neighbour with a cat that was a bl**dy nuisance - always depositing in our garden and digging. One day I went out and made friends with it and as it was walking away I gave it a good squirt of freezer spray right up the ....... Shift? I should say so!! Never came near me or the garden again. I'm told that you should be all marking your territory. Works for foxes too. Not so handy for urban front gardens where the neighbours seem to find this a little disconcerting! Paul DS |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
Graham. wrote:
And Sky boxes all had a CAM socket of some sort on the back, and an "interactive" card slot on the front Not any more they don't. The last thing to use the "interactive" slot was the Sky Credit card, and that's been killed off and turned into a regular credit card. The new Sky+HD 1TB box (Amstrad DRX895) has no CAM slot or interactive slot. It was originally put there because the "interactive" bit of the sky digibox was for "Open..." which was a joint venture between BT, HSBC and Sky. BT and HSBC were also trialling Mondex electronic cash at the time and assumed it would take off in a big way and so a domestic reader that could deal with it would be useful. |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
On Thu, 27 May 2010 01:19:24 +0100, Java Jive
wrote: Just remembered this. I've posted it before, of course, but there have arrived some newbies since then ... http://www.macfh.co.uk/Macfarlane/Re...ogCatDuck.html Heh heh! One place I lived contained a couple of ex-farm cats. These would sometimes bring me presents. Sometimes the presents were actually dead. Especially when their heads were chewed off. The worst was when another tenant's cat came to visit me and went out my window onto the roof. It returned with a bat and presented it to me triumphantly. Unfortunately it was only partly dead :( I think they were having a competition on who could be more gross. |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
I work in support for a software company looking after their hardware.
Whenever a staff member comes to me saying "blah blah is wrong" I ignore them and look at their pc for the actual fault, 9 times out of 10 they have blamed the wrong thing entirely. If the end user was aware enough of the item and it's capabilties in the first place , odds are they wouldn't have asked for help. My wife, by example, complained about all the 'wires' behind the tv/bluray/vm+ box, when she came home one day to a blank blue screen saying no signal I said " the wires are gone, isn't that what you wanted?" I can't complain though , it's what makes support folk employable. Never believe the client. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
"David" wrote in message ... " wrote in message ... The customer had bought a new Sony TV set, then found there was no DTT where he lived. Over the phone I suggested Freesat. He had a look at the back of the set and it had an 'f' input with a satellite symbol. But it didn't have a satellite tuner! There's no suggestion that he'd been mislead because the set wasn't sold as having Freesat, but it's one to watch out for. Certainly is. On my TV sets you can see 'knock out' pieces on the backs to where extra sockets would appear on more featured models, but never have I seen an actual non working socket. Regards David Many boxes come with the same hardware and capability varied by firmware. |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
" wrote in message ... On May 24, 7:05 pm, Adrian wrote: wrote: On May 24, 4:28 pm, Adrian wrote: wrote: The customer had bought a new Sony TV set, then found there was no DTT where he lived. Over the phone I suggested Freesat. He had a look at the back of the set and it had an 'f' input with a satellite symbol. But it didn't have a satellite tuner! There's no suggestion that he'd been mislead because the set wasn't sold as having Freesat, but it's one to watch out for. Bill What's the model number? It's very unusual for a maker to add unnecessary parts. -- Adrian It's KDL-37V58XX according to the instructions and 37V5810 on the back of the set. The instructions make no mention of Freesat. Serial 4001909 Date : 10/2009. Bill Page 20 of the use manual says, TV system says Satellite DVB-S/DVB-S2 -- Adrian- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yes, the problem is that satellite doesn't appear as an option in the 'source' menu. We now suspect that a factory reset and/or a re-tune WITH A DISH CONNECTED is required. Bill Try reading the instructions - cowboy! |
JReynold = Tiscali Idiot, 'nuff said ...
On 30/05/2010 17:40, JReynold wrote:
Try reading the instructions - cowboy! There is currently an open oil pipe at the bottom of the ocean we could stuff you in quite nicely... -- Adrian C |
Sony TV sets with 'f' connector but no sat tuner
On May 30, 5:40*pm, "JReynold" wrote:
" wrote in message Yes, the problem is that satellite doesn't appear as an option in the 'source' menu. We now suspect that a factory reset and/or a re-tune WITH A DISH CONNECTED is required. Bill Try reading the instructions - cowboy!- Hide quoted text - This wasn't a job of mine, actually. Never went near the place. I merely got involved in the discussion. Bill |
JReynold = Tiscali Idiot, 'nuff said ...
On May 30, 7:00*pm, Adrian C wrote:
On 30/05/2010 17:40, JReynold wrote: Try reading the instructions - cowboy! There is currently an open oil pipe at the bottom of the ocean we could stuff you in quite nicely... -- Adrian C Aren't these people a blessed nuisance? I suppose it's the same with driving. Everyone goes along quite nicely then one demented soul spoils it. Bill |
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