Samsung TV, not working in new home!

Fifer

Is it possible that the OP has inadvertantly switched the Samsung to analogue TV and the TV is finding no signal because we are post-switchover?

murphydog999

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Did you take the aerial lead out of the Freeview Box (out of the Antenna in socket) and try it into the telly ?

Yes, same response.

murphydog999

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Did you take the aerial lead out of the Freeview Box (out of the Antenna in socket) and try it into the telly ?

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

You say it was working a couple of days ago? Switchover has been ongoing for a while, are you asking it to tune the "digital" section of the TV?

Does it work in another aerial socket? I know you have had a box working in it's socket, but it is worth a go!

Tried another aerial socket, nothing. Is was already digitally tuned before we moved it.

murphydog999

Peter999 wrote: »

How far have you moved house

couple of hundred miles.

murphydog999

googler wrote: »

Have you verified that the socket you're plugging it into is actually connected to an aerial somewhere?

Not exactly, but the previous occupants had a TV in the same place, so we can only presume.

murphydog999

Fifer wrote: »

Is it possible that the OP has inadvertantly switched the Samsung to analogue TV and the TV is finding no signal because we are post-switchover?

No.

Thanks for all the replies, we have gone through everything you have all suggested, plus the internet - it might be the TV.

debitcardmayhem

murphydog999 wrote: »

couple of hundred miles.

Have you tried a re-tune on digital .....Try 1st with no aerial, then plug in the aerial and retune again

Robisere

This may sound daft, but it is absolutely true.

Where I live, at the start of the Digital switchover in our area, I could not get a digital signal. We have a commercial TV engineer friend in the village (own company, supplies commercial organisations with multi-systems) who came around and ran his tests. He told us that it was the huge sycamore tree acrooss the Close which was the problem. Here is his information: -

A digital signal is very "tight", meaning it is in a narrow band and cannot 'bend' around objects like broader, anolgue signals can. Even in winter, with no leaves and apparently still air, the tree branches move about, this disrupts the digi-signal and gives the symptoms you describe. So - is there a tree in the path from Transmitter to your house? And is that why your neighbour is using an aeriel that points in a different direction?

Our engineer friend balanced on a ladder at the side of our house with an aeriel on a 20 foot pole, pushed it up until it cleared the tree, whereupon it received a full signal to his meter. Then he wrote us a letter for the Environment and away went the tree. Result - everyone in our Close now gets digital! Not that I like removing trees, which I love btw - but in our village, all the aerials are tall. We live in the shadow of the Lincolnshire Wolds, so need all the help we can get.

EDIT: -

It was a great shock to the tree-fellers, to discover a wasps nest when it came down!

Enterprise_1701C

Whilst we have often come across stories like the above, and have had to mount aerials on the longest possible poles to avoid trees with protection orders on them, unless there is two separate aerials on this house then it is unlikely as the have other sockets working, and other tvs works in this socket!

murphydog999

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Whilst we have often come across stories like the above, and have had to mount aerials on the longest possible poles to avoid trees with protection orders on them, unless there is two separate aerials on this house then it is unlikely as the have other sockets working, and other tvs works in this socket!

That's exactly right!