All posts by DarrenG
Below are all of DarrenG's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Oh, and I have 2 Blackgold BGT3620 DVB-T2 tuners, which have worked faultlessly until now.
Given that you, and others, have the same problem as I do; I now have to answer the question 'Why does the TV work and the PC not?'.
To that I have no real idea. As far as I now PSB2 hasn't changed and I cannto see why the PSB1 move should have triggered this, if indeed it did.
Having said that I might have to might just have to wait and see what happens.
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Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitterTuesday 18 June 2013 12:12PM
Loughborough
DominicP: If I understand your question, then yes. The cable tuners are not configured, just the DVB-T2 tuners. I tried disabling the tuners individually to see if one of them had a fault but they both worked fine on all the other multiplexes. Yes, I saw the new drivers and tried them - no effect unfortunately.
I find it odd that some people with different PC configurations have the same problem that I have but you are fine with the same tuners as me. Maybe there is a clue buried there somewhere...
It is very puzzling. If I did not get PSB2 at all (TV has 100% signal now) then I would have another thing to look into.
In my head I have kind of ruled out problems with reception as my TV is fine and so is your Media Center!
So, PC not changed.
Win7 MCE tunes all multiplexes.
Then PSB2 works intermittently.
Um....
My Media Center is a really quite 'vanilla' build. I only added iplayer and PowerDVD to play blurays.I have done a few minor tweaks but can't really see these being an issue but need to check. I don't really want to rebuild the PC but will probably now go for a 100% standard install, load the necessary drivers and try MCE/different PVR software.
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Dominic P:
I have occasionally 'picked up' Belmont. I always check the frequencies MCE is using against what is on this webpage!
I also DO limit the MCE scan, or at least the frequencies used. At least it seems to work. The other day I scanned and it picked up some Belmont frequencues. I then immediately applied my registry update and only picked up Waltham frequencies. The channels were all at 100%.
Here is a link to the 'video' options:
http://imageshack.us/a/im….jpg
This appears ONLY on PSB2.
It is not the tuner in use:
http://img189.imageshack.….jpg (LE125DN)
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Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitterWednesday 19 June 2013 7:10PM
Loughborough
Stef:
I wondered about that too. I have been unable to find out what the 'TV data for your region' actually is.
However, I reimaged my PC back to a known working configuration and the issue was there immediately, withoug any retuning. So, it probably isn't that sadly.
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Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitterWednesday 19 June 2013 7:12PM
Loughborough
Dominic P:
Just to be sure...
You are tuned to Waltham?
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Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitterWednesday 19 June 2013 8:12PM
Loughborough
Steve H:
Bloody irritating, isn't it!?
I hate not being able to solve problems.
I started to look at the discussions for other larger transmitters and, at first glance at least, couldn't see similar problems being discussed. Is it just Waltham users?
Also, Dominic P has the same tuners as me and he is OK (hence why I wanted to confirm if he was tuned to Waltham).
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Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitterWednesday 19 June 2013 8:19PM
Loughborough
Steve H:
Oh, one other thing. I took a PDF copy of the Waltham info on this website when I built the PC back in Sept 2012. Comparing the info for PSB2 to now shows no change.
If there is a change then it is affecting a lot of different types of PC tuners.
So, like you I find it hard to believe that it is ALL our PCs that at fault.
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Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitterWednesday 19 June 2013 9:06PM
Loughborough
Briantist:
DONE IT! ;-0
I reimaged to a PC build with NO MCE SETUP at all (just Win7 + drivers). This is why it is bugging me.
PC not changed + PSB1 moved = PSB2 not working.
I am quite techy, so know PCs and can understand the transmission protocols etc.. Hell, I could even tell you all about MPEG2 and H.264/MPEG4.
Aaaaaahhhhh!
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Monday 17 June 2013 6:16PM
Loughborough
FAO CC40.
I have exactly the same problem. It started for me at the same time as PSB1 moved at the end of May.
I have restored my Media Center to a previous disc image and the problem is still there. This leads me to believe that the problem is not with the PC.
One thing that I have noticed (see if you haev this) is that I have a strange VIDEO option on my info menu (i on the remote). This gives me the option to select one of 4 'videos', whatever that means.
I am at a loss with this.