Panasonic TV fault today
 

In article ,
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Had a call from the parents saying their Panasonic Viera TV has
developed a fault. After about 10 minutes, it flips to saying
"No service", which is what would normally happen if you pull
out the aerial. However, another digital TV shows the aerial
signal is fine. Once it's gone "No service", it stays there
until you change channel, and you can then change back immediately
and the original channel is working again. It's 3 years into a
5 year guarantee, so I wasn't too worried.

This evening, I've just turned on my TV, which is an identical
model, same age, but different area of the country and transmitter.
Exactly the same fault.

Could it be that Panasonic have downloaded some buggy new firmware
to their TV's?

Have you tried a reset to defaults and a new scan?

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Panasonic TV fault today
 

On 15/08/2012 23:29, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Had a call from the parents saying their Panasonic Viera TV has
developed a fault. After about 10 minutes, it flips to saying
"No service", which is what would normally happen if you pull
out the aerial. However, another digital TV shows the aerial
signal is fine. Once it's gone "No service", it stays there
until you change channel, and you can then change back immediately
and the original channel is working again. It's 3 years into a
5 year guarantee, so I wasn't too worried.

Sounds a bit like DAB radio except they just go sullen and silent when
crashed by an incoming unplayable noisy datastream.

This evening, I've just turned on my TV, which is an identical
model, same age, but different area of the country and transmitter.
Exactly the same fault.

Could it be that Panasonic have downloaded some buggy new firmware
to their TV's?

More likely that they have reacted badly to various Olympics channels
vanishing or by coincidence you both have dodgy aerial leads.

I'll try mine tonight on terrestrial DTV to see if it has any problems.

Regards,
Martin Brown

Panasonic TV fault today
 

On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, "Mark Carver" writ:

On 16/08/2012 06:34, Rod Speed wrote:

MUCH more likely that some change has happened with the transmitters
and that some systems handle that better than others do.

Which is exactly what happened on Wednesday. The BBC returned PSB 1 Mux
back to its original configuration now the Olympics have finished.

Give the sets a reset, and rescan. Poor form they couldn't cope with
the changes, while plenty of others could.


My Panasonic Viera has suffered from this problem a few times in the
past after changes to the software and/or transmitter.

I can confirm that a reset and re-tune will fix the problems.
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Panasonic TV fault today
 

Is it a Panasonic Freesat?
Mine does it.
Regards
David



"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message ...

Had a call from the parents saying their Panasonic Viera TV has
developed a fault. After about 10 minutes, it flips to saying
"No service", which is what would normally happen if you pull
out the aerial. However, another digital TV shows the aerial
signal is fine. Once it's gone "No service", it stays there
until you change channel, and you can then change back immediately
and the original channel is working again. It's 3 years into a
5 year guarantee, so I wasn't too worried.

This evening, I've just turned on my TV, which is an identical
model, same age, but different area of the country and transmitter.
Exactly the same fault.

Could it be that Panasonic have downloaded some buggy new firmware
to their TV's?

Panasonic TV fault today
 

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Had a call from the parents saying their Panasonic Viera TV has
developed a fault. After about 10 minutes, it flips to saying
"No service", which is what would normally happen if you pull
out the aerial. However, another digital TV shows the aerial
signal is fine. Once it's gone "No service", it stays there
until you change channel, and you can then change back immediately
and the original channel is working again. It's 3 years into a
5 year guarantee, so I wasn't too worried.

This evening, I've just turned on my TV, which is an identical
model, same age, but different area of the country and transmitter.
Exactly the same fault.

Could it be that Panasonic have downloaded some buggy new firmware
to their TV's?

If it's any use, I have the same problem on my Panasonic 26" Freeview TV
receiving signals from Sandy Heath. It's only on BBC channels, and it
was not corrected by a re-tune yesterday. If I switch to the input from
my Panasonic DVD recorder, the signal seems OK and consistent. It's not
the aerial connection then, as proved by other TVs around the house
continuing to work on the BBC channels off the same downlead but through
different STBs.

Panasonic TV fault today
 

On 15/08/2012 23:29, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Had a call from the parents saying their Panasonic Viera TV has
developed a fault. After about 10 minutes, it flips to saying
"No service", which is what would normally happen if you pull
out the aerial. However, another digital TV shows the aerial
signal is fine. Once it's gone "No service", it stays there
until you change channel, and you can then change back immediately
and the original channel is working again. It's 3 years into a
5 year guarantee, so I wasn't too worried.

This evening, I've just turned on my TV, which is an identical
model, same age, but different area of the country and transmitter.
Exactly the same fault.

Could it be that Panasonic have downloaded some buggy new firmware
to their TV's?

We are on the Heathfield transmitter and both of our TV's a Panasonic
and a Toshiba have been intermittently having that problem for the past
three days. Our signal comes back after a few moments. Each time it has
been on BBC1. Last night around 9.20 I switched to BBC1 HD and it did
not happen again.
Derek

Panasonic TV fault today
 

In article ,
(Andrew Gabriel) writes:
Had a call from the parents saying their Panasonic Viera TV has
developed a fault. After about 10 minutes, it flips to saying
"No service", which is what would normally happen if you pull
out the aerial. However, another digital TV shows the aerial
signal is fine. Once it's gone "No service", it stays there
until you change channel, and you can then change back immediately
and the original channel is working again. It's 3 years into a
5 year guarantee, so I wasn't too worried.

This evening, I've just turned on my TV, which is an identical
model, same age, but different area of the country and transmitter.
Exactly the same fault.

Could it be that Panasonic have downloaded some buggy new firmware
to their TV's?

OK, looks like this is a widespread problem, but possibly only
with a few Panasonic models. Reset/retune makes no difference.
The consensus seems to be it's more likely to be a change the
BBC did yesterday than it is to be a buggy firmware update.
I emailed BBC transmitter engineering...

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Panasonic TV fault today
 

On 16/08/2012 17:14, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

OK, looks like this is a widespread problem, but possibly only
with a few Panasonic models. Reset/retune makes no difference.
The consensus seems to be it's more likely to be a change the
BBC did yesterday than it is to be a buggy firmware update.
I emailed BBC transmitter engineering...

You're not alone

Post 11 onwards

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1658172

It's either something the Beeb have done, that Pannys don't like, or
(more likely) something non compliant in the Panny's existing firmware.

If it's the latter, it will have to be put right by Panasonic, via an
over the air update. The downside is they are normally carried on the
BBC Mux, which might provide a difficulty if you can't receive it !

Do the affected sets have an Ethernet and/or USB port ?


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Panasonic TV fault today
 

In article ,
Mark Carver writes:
On 16/08/2012 17:14, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

OK, looks like this is a widespread problem, but possibly only
with a few Panasonic models. Reset/retune makes no difference.
The consensus seems to be it's more likely to be a change the
BBC did yesterday than it is to be a buggy firmware update.
I emailed BBC transmitter engineering...

You're not alone

Post 11 onwards

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1658172

It's either something the Beeb have done, that Pannys don't like, or
(more likely) something non compliant in the Panny's existing firmware.

If it's the latter, it will have to be put right by Panasonic, via an
over the air update. The downside is they are normally carried on the
BBC Mux, which might provide a difficulty if you can't receive it !

Do the affected sets have an Ethernet and/or USB port ?

Mine doesn't (slightly too old for that I think).
It has an SD card slot, and I did see a reference on the
internet somewhere (about a different problem) that some
can be updated by using this.

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Andrew Gabriel
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Panasonic TV fault today
 

"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
...

OK, looks like this is a widespread problem, but possibly only
with a few Panasonic models. Reset/retune makes no difference.

....

Casting my mind back a few months a normal reset/retune
wouldn't solve a particular problem with certain Freeview
Boxes. They kept asking you to do a retune after five minutes.
The solution was to remove the aerial, do a retune cycle
with no signal, plug the aerial back in and try again.
All I know is that this worked on mine - it may have
been a Grundig (crap) or a Goodmans (no problems so far)
box. I probably read about it on Usenet or a Web Forum
as it doesn't appear in the "manual".

michael adams

....


The consensus seems to be it's more likely to be a change the
BBC did yesterday than it is to be a buggy firmware update.
I emailed BBC transmitter engineering...

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Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]