Let's compile a register of how well receivers retuned today

I've been on holiday today, so haven't had any messages from customers
(well, only two), but here's how my own retune has gone so far:
1. Newish Sony IDTV. Just did it with no problem.
2. Humax F2 Fox T: Found only 24 channels, lost everything else, so I tried
again. Same result. Did a factory reset, this worked OK. The odd thing is,
the receiver comes on now when powered up without needing the standby button
to be pressed, which it didn't before.

Tomorrow I have to retune a lot of stuff, so I'll report back.

Bill

Philips Model 22PFL3403D/10

Gets all channels correctly in the end but it drives me nearly to suicide
every time I have to do a re-scan.

Firstly it's impossible to rescan digital without rescanning analog too.

So would have to scan analog and use infuriating primitive interface to
reorder the analog channels.

However here in Reading analog and digital signals from both Crystal Palace
and Hannington are strong enough to get detected no matter which way your
aerial points. Hence auto scan is unusable and you have to manually scan.
You can't just erase the digital channels so you have to manually enter the
analog channels again too. If fact the only way to erase everything is to
auto scan with the aerial disconnected. You also can't scan by channel
numbers (21 to 68) you have to know that, for instance, channel 46 is
674.25MHz for digital or 671MHz for analog.

You might say why bother with the analog channels. Well mainly because some
of the muxs drop out in certain weather conditions and when there are lots
of leaves on the trees.

One good this is that it does seem to be able to add the odd extra channel
that's introduced on a previously unused LCN without any user intervention.

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Brian Gregory. (In the UK)

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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Bill Wright wrote:

I've been on holiday today, so haven't had any messages from customers
(well, only two), but here's how my own retune has gone so far:
1. Newish Sony IDTV. Just did it with no problem.
2. Humax F2 Fox T: Found only 24 channels, lost everything else, so I
tried again. Same result. Did a factory reset, this worked OK. The
odd thing is, the receiver comes on now when powered up without
needing the standby button to be pressed, which it didn't before.

Tomorrow I have to retune a lot of stuff, so I'll report back.

Bill


My own experience - on the fringe of Sutton Coldfield coverage, Group B roof
aerial . . .

The only significant change *without* retuning was that Chan 5 no longer
worked.

On re-tuning, both sets found 75 channels - including the moved Chan 5, so
that's ok.

*However* I'm now getting *nothing* on Mux D. Previously it at least *found
* a few channels - Film 4, Yesterday, etc. - but they seldom actually
worked. Now, it doesn't even *find* them. I'm not really any worse off
because they were rarely watchable, anyway. I'll try to scan Mux D manually
to time to time in the hope of hitting a period of good reception - but
otherwise, I can wait until ANO. [As I've said on previous occasions, Mux D
(currently Chan 55) is outside the official range of my Group B aerial - but
I don't want to change it 'cos the frequencies will all be re-aligned after
ANO and it should then be ok].
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In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
I've been on holiday today, so haven't had any messages from customers
(well, only two), but here's how my own retune has gone so far: 1.
Newish Sony IDTV. Just did it with no problem. 2. Humax F2 Fox T: Found
only 24 channels, lost everything else, so I tried again. Same result.
Did a factory reset, this worked OK. The odd thing is, the receiver
comes on now when powered up without needing the standby button to be
pressed, which it didn't before.

My elderly neighbour asked me to do hers. She's got two married daughters
and grand kids etc who are there a lot - but hey, it's nice to be
considered 'technical'. ;-)
Her STB is a Sagem. On switching it on up came what was CH5 - now a black
screen with a message saying to press 'OK' to retune. Which I did and it
did. All mine - which I did before - required delving into the setup menu.
Although I didn't try the CH5 site so didn't see that message. Are all as
simple as this?

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*Starfishes have no brains *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Bill Wright wrote:
I've been on holiday today, so haven't had any messages from customers
(well, only two), but here's how my own retune has gone so far:
1. Newish Sony IDTV. Just did it with no problem.
2. Humax F2 Fox T: Found only 24 channels, lost everything else, so I tried
again. Same result. Did a factory reset, this worked OK. The odd thing is,
the receiver comes on now when powered up without needing the standby button
to be pressed, which it didn't before.

Tomorrow I have to retune a lot of stuff, so I'll report back.

Bill


My Panasonic TX-26LXD1 LCD panel now steadfastly refuses to 'see' Dave
(19), E4+1 (29) and Sky News (82) plus a couple of others that I can't
recall - I'm missing 6 channels in alll. Other Panasonic and Sony gear
in the house is fine. I've tried a shipping condition reset, different
aerial, scan without an aerial attached to try and clear the problem -
nada. Looks like I'll be calling Panasonic tomorrow. Sigh.


Clem

I've been on holiday today, so haven't had any messages from customers
(well, only two), but here's how my own retune has gone so far:
1. Newish Sony IDTV. Just did it with no problem.
2. Humax F2 Fox T: Found only 24 channels, lost everything else, so I
tried again. Same result. Did a factory reset, this worked OK. The odd
thing is, the receiver comes on now when powered up without needing the
standby button to be pressed, which it didn't before.

Tomorrow I have to retune a lot of stuff, so I'll report back.

Bill

Both my Vestel 80GB PVRs have ITV2+1 (33) tagged as "ITV"
I'm on Winter Hill is that the same for everybody?
(can't be sure it wasn't like that before retuning)

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Clem Dye wrote:

My Panasonic TX-26LXD1 LCD panel now steadfastly refuses to 'see' Dave
(19), E4+1 (29) and Sky News (82) plus a couple of others that I can't
recall - I'm missing 6 channels in alll.

I retuned Mother-in-law's Sony Bravia last night at 17:00hrs. It seemed fine
at the time, but she phoned me at 20:30hrs last night (while I was retuning
someone else's TV ) to report that she was only getting a 1 second flash of
Dave when she selected it, and, quote, "the same for some other channels above
position 15".


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On Sep 30, 10:48*pm, "Bill Wright"
wrote:
I've been on holiday today, so haven't had any messages from customers
(well, only two), but here's how my own retune has gone so far:
1. Newish Sony IDTV. Just did it with no problem.
2. Humax F2 Fox T: Found only 24 channels, lost everything else, so I tried
again. Same result. Did a factory reset, this worked OK. The odd thing is,
the receiver comes on now when powered up without needing the standby button
to be pressed, which it didn't before.

Tomorrow I have to retune a lot of stuff, so I'll report back.

Bill

Main tv LG 47LG6000 no problems at all, an LG M227WD in bedroom also
no probs. The main problem was a Humax 9300 PVR it appeared to find
all the channels but on the EPG they were in the wrong place. ITV3 for
instance was channel 801 itwas also in 10 but was blank. Did a factory
set and all problems cured, altrhough I now have to redo series links
and some preferences.

Java Jive wrote:
Pace Twin ok, but as always, loses your personal channel lists, so you
have to rebuild them - damned tedious. I too have ITV2+1 as ITV
from Hannington.

Yep, same here (also Hannington), plus:-

A blank channel 'news' on Ch 89. That causes my Toppy to crash if I select it.

A blank channel that my Sony PVR labels as '????' on Ch 27 (all other
receivers label it as just a blank space.

C5's picture quality is a disgrace.

'Deck chairs' and 'Titanic' come to mind, but I suppose that's the result of
treating the UHF band as a commodity rather than a resource ?

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Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

www.paras.org.uk

Brian Gregory [UK] wrote:
Philips Model 22PFL3403D/10

Gets all channels correctly in the end but it drives me nearly to suicide
every time I have to do a re-scan.

Firstly it's impossible to rescan digital without rescanning analog too.

So would have to scan analog and use infuriating primitive interface to
reorder the analog channels.

However here in Reading analog and digital signals from both Crystal Palace
and Hannington are strong enough to get detected no matter which way your
aerial points. Hence auto scan is unusable and you have to manually scan.
You can't just erase the digital channels so you have to manually enter the
analog channels again too. If fact the only way to erase everything is to
auto scan with the aerial disconnected. You also can't scan by channel
numbers (21 to 68) you have to know that, for instance, channel 46 is
674.25MHz for digital or 671MHz for analog.

Try re-scanning with a -12dB attenuator in line?

G