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

Wharfedale (TVOnics) PVR required the autotune to be done twice, the first
time it picked up a crappy signal for the BBC1 mux on a lower channel from
Craigkelly instead of Black Hill, second time round it got it right for some
reason.

Picking up the first channel it sees instead of the strongest must be a
common problem with some boxes.

On mine, if you type in the channels manually it adds them to the end (800)
as there is no way to clear the previous channels without doing an autotune.

Z


"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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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

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


Sony Bravia KDL40W4000 rescanned AOK and all channels present.

I appear to be getting less signal strength on ch5 and a few others too...

I'm in Edinburgh and pointed at Blackhill

In article , 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. 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.

Get yourself a set of aerial lead attenuators and try rescanning with
various amounts in circuit. (With 3, 6 and 12dB you can have any value
from 3 to 21 in increments of 3). This might seem daft but it worked for
me. Two of my tuners managed just fine, but the Panasonic PVR picked up
everything except BBC4 despite several rescans, until I tried the
attenuators. It worked with 6dB, then I took the attenuator out of
circuit and it still picks up all the channels.

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"Bigguy" wrote in message
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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?


Yes that's worth trying, I'll try and remember next time. However I suspect
some of the Crystal Palace muxs are as strong on the back of our Hannington
aerial as Hannington is on the front of it. They certainly will be after
switchover because Crystal Palace digital power is increasing 10 times while
Hannington is only increasing 2.25 times. We want to use Hannington if we
can because it has more local news.

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On Oct 1, 7:33*am, Mark Carver wrote:
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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All three in my house worked "fine". DHD4000 PVR, Panasonic 37LZD81
and a TVonics STB (can't recall the model number). All show a blank
channel on channel 27, and this morning Five was showing with no EPG
on the DHD4000 (suspect this is due to the nightly download of the EPG
from 4TV not being properly updated, so no stricly a Freeview issue).

Matt

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:33:06 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

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.



Panasonic summat or other, using Crystal Palace but can see Reigate
too.

Lke Mark and JJ I have ITV where ITV2+1 is. Ch27 has no label but the
DOG tells me it's ITV4.

Usual thing of 8nn series channels whee it picks up duplicates,
presumably from Reigate.

All in all not really that tricky.

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Tim

Old Netgem I player blind enabled version.
It worked, but some channels, notably 5 take a long time to actually
stabilise and give sound. Sometimes the box now does a restart for no
apparent reason.
Cannot find fiver, no loss there. five US seems to be prone to not work
unless selected a second time. I may well try another retune. I cannot see
how a simple reordering of channels could cause these oddities to happen,
unless ththey were there all along but on channels I never used of course,
but now they are more mainstream channels.

Could we now ask the broadcasters to retune their selection process for
things we might like to have on TV, rather than chuck out the rubbish I
heard last night while flitting around the available dross. Durasic Park
AGAIN? Lots of rubbish fly on the wall cop real event type rubbish, Bloody
sport, Umpteen rubbish news services, more adverts than I'd care to have in
an hour, all in 15 mins, crappy shows about marriage in the US and I think
the best/worst of all, age old repeats of old US sitcoms with inappropriate
fake laughter.

Brian

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
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

In message , Tim Hall
writes


Ch27 has no label but the
DOG tells me it's ITV4.

There's nearly always a dog around when you need one.
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Ian

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
. com...

Could we now ask the broadcasters to retune their selection process for
things we might like to have on TV, rather than chuck out the rubbish I
heard last night while flitting around the available dross. Durasic Park
AGAIN? Lots of rubbish fly on the wall cop real event type rubbish,
Bloody sport, Umpteen rubbish news services,

Speak for yourself, I don't know how I lived before 'Russia Today'. ;-)

Z

On Oct 1, 10:08*am, "Zimmy" wrote:
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message

. com...

Could we now ask the broadcasters to retune their selection process for
things we might like to have on TV, rather than chuck out the rubbish I
heard last night while flitting around the available dross. Durasic Park
AGAIN? Lots of rubbish fly *on the wall cop real event type rubbish,
Bloody sport, Umpteen rubbish news services,

Speak for yourself, I don't know how I lived before 'Russia Today'. ;-)

Z

Vestel T825 ( Digihome) pointing at Rowridge seems to have coped OK,
haven't checked every single channel yet. Biggest ballache was
deleting all the shopping channels and suchlike crap from the channel
list after rescan.