All posts by mh
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ok - so i need a set top box. Any recommendations, or will any make/price do please?
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Location: Ash Vale, Aldershot/CP Transmitter
Dear all.
Further to my recent questions about my Philips DW9625 digital tv, I checked today that my model is in fact the Philips DW9625/05R version. On some threads elsewhere, I have been told that my tv does include 8k support, it being the 05R version, and I wondered what further info/comments the panel of esteemed professionals on here could bring to my thread? My exact model is not listed on the digitaluk.co.uk website.
Just to recap, I had all of my channels prior to 4th April, most of my channels (bar BBC1/2) up to the 17th and no channels after the 18th. I have tried to retune but only get a red dot (square actually) which means I'm getting a very poor signal. Channel listings still show and I can still flick thru them. Community ariel upgraded recently.
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Thanks jb38. Will test as advised to see if I can eliminate - thanks for the explainations. Just out of curiosity - I note my tv has an upgrade facility (via on screen menu) and is equipped with an ethernet socket. Would I be right in presuming this may have been installed to allow any software enhancements to be downloaded to make it work with 8k at some point do you think? If so, makes me wonder why no upgrades were made available, or could be now. Philips say none ever were. Would have been an easy solution. I chatted with them today to put over the point that you addressed so well for me (about tv maybe having the hardware for 8k but not the software) but they didn't seem to know much about my tv or understand the point I was trying to make. Finally, again out of curiosity, I wondered if the Virgin V Box I have (it's an old one that has has rf in and rf out points) could be used as a terrestial freeview digital receiever at all? Would taking a coax cable from my tv wall socket routing through the rf in then taking rf out to tv ariel socket work? Thanks again for all your help. Regards, martyh
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ok jb38 - yes I'm asking lots of questions, as you are, out of curiosity. I expect you are right re 'just get a freeview box.' Interested to learn about the whys and why nots on my Philips model. On the updates, I DO have a serial port (9 pin like mouse type on a compo) and a common interface slot - both at the rear, along with the modem previously mentioned. Not much about how to/why to/when to use any of these, or what they are for in the manual! Re model info rear stickers read :-
32PW9625
22AV9625/32
MODEL 32DW9625/05R
AG 220131 100583
SMG4-1E AA
Will mull your last post a bit more, and come back to you.
martyh.
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jb38 - Copy that. Looking forward to hearing if anything new comes to light. In the meantime, will check out your freeview wedge suggestions. I appreciate your time spent on this. Regards,martyh.
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From martyh Ash Vale.
PICTURE PROBLEMS WITH FREEVIEW DONGLE.
Further to my postings regarding my digital TV and it being unable to use the new signal from April 4th, I purchased a scart plug in device (scart adapter) from Currys as suggested by jb38. It's a type that plugs in to a scart socket at the rear of my TV. However, I am extremely disappointed by the picture quality I'm getting and the fact that I have lost some part of the picture at the top and to the right of my screen. From the adapter remote menu, I would say that Im, getting (on average) about 80% quality and 80% signal (variable). My pictures lack true depth of colour and can also be grainy. I have also noticed colour saturation problems (especially black and white in lack of definition, for example no definition on suit lapels). I have tried adjusting elements such as sharpness, colour, contrast etc, using my TVs menu without success. In addition, I have also tried altering between the RGB and CVBS modes on the adapter remote menu. When I switch between the two the screen options, the picture moves (flickers) to the left like its offset. CVBS mode seems richer in colour but gives a less defined image, almost blurred. I have also selected combinations of 16:9 and 4:3, and combinations of these with the letterbox/full frame options. I have also tried several retunes, to see if that helps, to no avail, though I do get 115 TV and radio channels. Compared to the pictures I was getting on the 2k signal, direct through my TV Ariel into my TV, I am really not impressed with what I am seeing, especially as quality of pictures I now receive are actually straining my eyes. I thought the new format was supposed to be an improvement but it seems not. Any ideas. Please refer to my previous posts if youd like to revise. Thanks! Martyh. Manual for my adapter can be found here: http://documents.knowhow.….pdf
ps.I have had my adapter for about 4 weeks.
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Wednesday 18 April 2012 2:11PM
I am in Ash Vale (Between Guildford & Aldershot). I have a digital tv that was picking up all the freeview channels available prior to April 4th. After April 4th I lost BBC1 BBC2 and retunes didn't work. Today (April 18th) I have lost all channels. My tv won't retune and shows a very poor signal strength. (transmitter Crystal Palace). I use a recently upgraded community ariel. Have tried several retunes to no avail.