Re-HDTV

joe134

Hi Guys, bit of help needed. Bought 2 Full HD ready, 1080 T,vs.
BUT, I am not getting any HD channels. Do I need a seperate tuner?
All channels are showing DTV, no HDTV.
Elmley Moor mast, any advice grateful

TonyMMM

"Full HD/HD Ready"just means the screens are capable of displaying a picture in HD (either 1080 or 720)... it doesn't mean the TV has an HD tuner in it (many don't).

Sounds like yours don't and you will need a seperate way of delivering an HD signal. What make/model are they ?

joe134

TonyMMM wrote: »

"Full HD/HD Ready"just means the screens are capable of displaying a picture in HD (either 1080 or 720)... it doesn't mean the TV has an HD tuner in it (many don't).

Sounds like yours don't and you will need a seperate way of delivering an HD signal. What make/model are they ?

polaroid 46" full HD LED TV P46LED12

TonyMMM

They have a Freeview tuner, not a Freeview HD tuner.

joe134

TonyMMM wrote: »

They have a Freeview tuner, not a Freeview HD tuner.

thats really helpful, thankyou so much

joe134

joe134 wrote: »

thats really helpful, thankyou so much

can you buy a seperate tuner to be able to receive HD programmes?

Toxteth_OGrady

joe134 wrote: »

can you buy a seperate tuner to be able to receive HD programmes?

Yes.

:cool:

TOG

irishjohn

Yes - if you want a freeview recorder to record programmes - then Humax do one which has the HD channels

heres what I mean

http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product.asp?ProdRef=10095

joe134

irishjohn wrote: »

Yes - if you want a freeview recorder to record programmes - then Humax do one which has the HD channels

heres what I mean

http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product.asp?ProdRef=10095

Hi John, Thanks for reply. I really don,t want a recorder, I was told it was able to view HD channels, that the tuner was inside, capable of it, until my son, who,s also bought one, his has inbuilt tuner, and receives HD, pointed out, mine wasn,t HD. I never watch TV, bought both OH it for xmas.
Surely if a seperate tuner was required, shouldn,t it say so ?
looks like OFT on the case, doesn,t do what it states it does.
Are tuners available without recorder or other.
There,s thousands of unhappy punters, like me, been sold a pup;;

flashg67

You can buy a non-recording Freeview HD box, but it does sound as if you were perhaps mis-sold the TV.

If it says 'Freeview HD' on the box, then it should have an HD tuner built in. If it just has 'Freeview' and separately 'HD Ready' , then it won't pick up the HD signal - depends if you can prove what you were told, or if you just misunderstood that they were two seperate things?

joe134

flashg67 wrote: »

You can buy a non-recording Freeview HD box, but it does sound as if you were perhaps mis-sold the TV.

If it says 'Freeview HD' on the box, then it should have an HD tuner built in. If it just has 'Freeview' and separately 'HD Ready' , then it won't pick up the HD signal - depends if you can prove what you were told, or if you just misunderstood that they were two seperate things?

Hi flash, it only says freeview, hd ready 1080, not freeview hd, so I have been misled.
On the box it says, freeview, buy now, no hd mentioned.
How can you buy freeview,? the box and manual, all leads one to assume it,s all set up for plug and play hd tv. Is there a seperate tuner available just for HD channels? The picture is great, until my son mentioned his chanels are 101 not 1, for HD, I assumed it was HD.asdas reviews say, happy, easy set up, watching hd, great, no mention of a tuner anywhere on box or manual;;;;