TV stopped working, and weird phone stuff

maleman

Where do you live? Many parts of the south of England, (I get my signal from Hannington) turned off the analogue signal yesterday. And also your digital box will need retuning as if from new, or you will not be able to receive the stations, try that.

suiko

"Well, if the TV can receive and display the analogue channels (and can also display the video feed), but not the Freeview channels, then what else can it be but the Freeview box or it's connections?"

No, maybe I didn't explain well. It doesn't receive anything, with or without digibox.

I'm in Oxford. No one else I've spoken to seems to have had this problem. I'll check it out.

Edited: I tried to retune the digibox, but it did not find any channels at all. Bit at a loss as to know what to do next.

macman

suiko wrote: »

"Well, if the TV can receive and display the analogue channels (and can also display the video feed), but not the Freeview channels, then what else can it be but the Freeview box or it's connections?"

No, maybe I didn't explain well. It doesn't receive anything, with or without digibox.

I'm in Oxford. No one else I've spoken to seems to have had this problem. I'll check it out.

Edited: I tried to retune the digibox, but it did not find any channels at all. Bit at a loss as to know what to do next.

So why did you say:

'I turn the TV on normally, and the four standard channels work without turning the digibox on'?

sonstream

This has to be a wind up post :eek:

fiddiwebb

sonstream wrote: »

This has to be a wind up post :eek:

Or even a haunted telly

If OP stares close up at telly screen without turning it on can they see a ghostly face staring back.........They're here :eek:

almillar

OP - where is your aerial. Is it on your roof, in your loft, or lying in your garden having fallen off?! Totally separate from your phone issues though.

fiddiwebb

Bit confused, so freeview not cable, separate freeview box not built into telly.

If you unplug the aerial lead from your freeview box and plug it into the telly can you still receive an analogue signal in your area?

Have you checked that there is no engineering work being carried out on the transmitter in your area?

suiko

Sorry, yes, I can see now that the bit about the four channels working is misleading. What I meant is that I can switch between them and the numbers come onto the blue screen. There's no reception at all, either by just turning the TV one without the digibox, or through the AV2 channel via the digibox.

Aeruial is mounted high on the back wall of house. It's pretty new - been there a couple of years, since the old one fell off the roof. Will try putting the aerial elad into the TV directly, tho I have always been able to recieve an analogue signal even when the digibox is turned off - I only use the digibox when I want to watch freeview channels.

My neighbours don't seem to be having any problems, and this has now been going on for 5 days.

macman

If you follow the sound advice already given in post 18, you can determine if the Freeview box is faulty or not in seconds. If the fault remains with the aerial plugged direct into the TV, then it's not the box.
The box has a pass through port that enables you to use the aerial direct to the TV's analogue tuner.
If it's not the box, then you need to swap out the TV for another on that same aerial, or take your TV to another aerial to test it there.
Simply a matter of eliminating each of the 3 possible components one by one.

suiko

Thanks. I'll try that tonight (except for the aerial - I don't have another one).

My feeling has always been that it's something to do with the aerial, as the video does work fine on the TV. I would expect to get interference noise and a grey fuzzy screen tho - maybe this doesn't happen these days?