Telly up the spout

On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:46:52 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Peter Duncanson wrote:

For instance at the moment using a Humax 9200T, I'm recording Sky News
and BBC1 and watching BBC2. BBC1 and 2 are on the same mux. The
inaccessible channels are greyed-out in the EPG. Those that are
available for viewing are in the same muxes as BBC1 and Sky News.


The main problem is finding time to watch all the recordings.

If you had a Toppy you'd probably find a TAP that did that for you

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John Arnold wrote:

It was already in 2K+8K mode. I tried switching it to 8K only, and
the auto tune still stuck at 16%.

Oh well, I guess that conclusively proves the old Sony models aren't 8K
capable, these was a scintilla of hope for my DX100 ... but no longer.

My only casualty was an ex OnDigital Nokia Mediamaster 9850 T so I can't complain.

Really? I've got one, and it was working fine* a couple of weeks ago when I swapped it for something a bit smaller. It seemed to
do all the re-scans OK, and had all the channels.
*"Fine" as in "as normal", ie very occasionally locking up, so requiring a re-power - something which it has done for the past ten
years.
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Is DSO complete at your Tx? If so I'm confused as I thought they were incomptable
with 8K QAM

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John Arnold wrote:

It was already in 2K+8K mode. I tried switching it to 8K only, and
the auto tune still stuck at 16%.

Oh well, I guess that conclusively proves the old Sony models aren't 8K
capable, these was a scintilla of hope for my DX100 ... but no longer.

My only casualty was an ex OnDigital Nokia Mediamaster 9850 T so I
can't complain.

Really? I've got one, and it was working fine* a couple of weeks ago
when I swapped it for something a bit smaller. It seemed to
do all the re-scans OK, and had all the channels.
*"Fine" as in "as normal", ie very occasionally locking up, so
requiring a re-power - something which it has done for the past ten
years.
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Ian
Is DSO complete at your Tx? If so I'm confused as I thought they were
incomptable
with 8K QAM

You could be right. I'm on Crystal Palace, and the DSO reshuffle is a
year away.

I had thought that some of the muxes had already switched to 8k, but I'm
obviously wrong. [I did a re-scan on the 9850T earlier this evening, and
it is certainly still OK at the moment.]

I see here that the 9850T is first in the dead-duck list!
http://www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051492
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"John Arnold" wrote in message
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I'm in Gloucester. Most of the channels on my telly (Sony KD32DX40)
disappeared. BBC channels gone but not the ITV channels. I run the
retune
and it sticks at 16% and stays there however long I wait, so I have to
cancel it. Now what? Buy a new telly? To be fair, I think it might be
one
of the earliest ever Freeview tellys, so it's had a good run, but still...


Found this - probably not what you want to hear though:

http://sonycic.custhelp.com/app/answ...-during-tuning

Bill Wright wrote:

John Arnold wrote:

Got a Freeview DVD recorder. But now I can't record one thing and watch
another. So it's a new TV and/or PVR. Oh well.

If the telly looks OK (no signs of the screen reaching the end of the
road, etc) I'd be inclined to get a twin tuner HD PVR, because that will
allow you to get your money's worth out of the telly and will remain as
an asset when said telly goes to WEEE heaven.

Get one of those nice Humax ones.

Yes, the standard-def PVRs look to be good value at the moment.

Andy Burns wrote:

John Arnold wrote:

I'm still reading through the archived posts. I don't know why I'm stuck
on 3.50[GB].

Re-visiting the old thread where we discussed it here a couple of years
ago, it seems at least one user with 4.10 firmware confirmed it does
work with 8K muxes in a post-DSO area.

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.tech.digital-
tv/browse_thread/thread/d4f0188b4a3da8a9/4368ddce9a759c8a

Looks like they were hoping that it might work rather than being able to
confirm it. I'll just get a PVR.

I guess it's stuck there for good now if I can't get the
broadcast.

You could either get them to send you out a PCMCIA card for you to
upgrade and then send it back to them, or arrange an engineer to visit
and do the same, I seem to remember reading they might have stopped
sending the cards in the post now.

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simtan wrote:

On Apr 8, 4:36 pm, John Arnold wrote:
I'm in Gloucester. Most of the channels on my telly (Sony KD32DX40)
disappeared. BBC channels gone but not the ITV channels. I run the
retune and it sticks at 16% and stays there however long I wait, so I
have to cancel it. Now what? Buy a new telly? To be fair, I think it
might be one of the earliest ever Freeview tellys, so it's had a good
run, but still...

Does not work with the 8K transmission mode that is used post-DSO
http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/2kequipment
Only option is set-top box or other external source.

Thanks. Damn.

Apparently some people have had success getting Sony to come and fix these.

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I thought that the new mode of transmission came to everywhere some time
ago to catch these tellies, which means it ought to have gone belly up
some time back.
Still anything is possible these days....

Brian

No you only get 8K after DSO.
Daft isn't it.

Split nit, or whatever it's called, just appeared when the number of
channels reached a certain amount.

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John Arnold wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:

John Arnold wrote:

Got a Freeview DVD recorder. But now I can't record one thing and watch
another. So it's a new TV and/or PVR. Oh well.
If the telly looks OK (no signs of the screen reaching the end of the
road, etc) I'd be inclined to get a twin tuner HD PVR, because that will
allow you to get your money's worth out of the telly and will remain as
an asset when said telly goes to WEEE heaven.

Get one of those nice Humax ones.

Yes, the standard-def PVRs look to be good value at the moment.
Waste of money. During the life of the item SD will start to seem rather
old fashioned.

Bill

John Arnold wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.tech.digital-
tv/browse_thread/thread/d4f0188b4a3da8a9/4368ddce9a759c8a

Looks like they were hoping that it might work rather than being able to
confirm it.

No, someone did confirm it worked on 8K muxes.

I'll just get a PVR.

Not a bad plan anyway.