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freeview-help!!
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hi!
I'm having trouble with my freeview box after moving house.
ive set up my tv in my room with an extension from the lounge, and the tv picks up all 5 channels perfectly.
when i plug the aerial into my freeview box and connect it with the tv via scart, and turn the power on, usually it comes up on screen with the freeview menu, but i am just getting a blank screen
i know the box is working as i was using it with the same kind of set up a couple of days ago. and i know that the area i live in has reception because i have only moved down the road and the box in the lounge has full reception!
any ideas?! ive tried looking on google but it was no help
thanks!!
I'm having trouble with my freeview box after moving house.
ive set up my tv in my room with an extension from the lounge, and the tv picks up all 5 channels perfectly.
when i plug the aerial into my freeview box and connect it with the tv via scart, and turn the power on, usually it comes up on screen with the freeview menu, but i am just getting a blank screen
i know the box is working as i was using it with the same kind of set up a couple of days ago. and i know that the area i live in has reception because i have only moved down the road and the box in the lounge has full reception!
any ideas?! ive tried looking on google but it was no help
thanks!!
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DG - yeah, i know i need to scan, but its just coming up with a blank screen
any other ideas people?? please!!
Indeed but you may need an upgraded or repositioned one to get digital channels.
Try everything else first and then pay someone to change it to one suitable for digital reception.
Ah but you might be wrong. Point in case. Banbury has 2 transmitters, a main one and a relay. If you tune into the relay you don't get freeview channels.
But if you're just getting a blank screen and no menu that says to me it's nothing to do with the aerial. Are both your scart connectors pushed in fully, no bent pins, all connections secure inside ? Silly question but have you got it on the right channel ? My little tv plays up sometimes. Signals fromt the scart lead are supposed to change the channel automatically but sometimes it doesn't and i have to do it manually.
Need to re-check connections in that case.
i have tried tunning it in, then plugging in the box but that doesnt work, and ive tried plugging in the box then tunning it in but that doesnt work either!
can you explain more about this tunning in the channel business?
aside from that im out of ideas. can only reccomend unplugging everything and starting from scratch, i find that is the solution to the majority of my electrical problems as im forever wiring things up wrong.
if i re-set it up, do i tune the tv first, set it to any channel then plug in the freeview via the scart?
EG scar 1 = AV1 scart 2 = AV2 etc etc