All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
jacquicousins: The samsung website might have the manual, but google will bring it up.
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mark stanley: Yes! You have a 6, 7 or 8000 series TV (lucky you), and all you need to do is connect the F connection on the back to the old sky dish connection.
In fact, if you have the 7000 or 8000, you have two Freesat tuners (as well as two Freeview HD tuners). This is to allow you to use one tuner to record (to an external hard drive), while you using the other to watch (high level Panasonics can do the same thing). Obviously you'll need twin LNB's to do this.
BTW - do you use the snazzy extra controller and voice activation, and if so, does it work well?
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Ben Hardaker: If you'd bought a DAB radio, you would have had FM as well - for possibly less than £20! And you would have had a lot more channels.
Remember that coverage is liable to get better in the future, and that DAB reception is very much an individual thing - your neighbour might have his radoi in a place where it going to be tough getting a signal, whereas you might be fine. Its true that DAB suck power like anything, but for much of the time, thats not a problem, because most of us plug the radio into the mains most of the time.
What I keep seeing here are reasons to stick with FM - thats fine, but there is no reason not to have both at present, and use both as and when. Both have certain advantages, but a lot of the 'advantages' people are coming up with for FM are minor at best for most people.
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florence: If your not getting a signal at all, the first thing to check is that the aerial lead is properly attached to the TV, and that your aerial is working properly.
Crystal Palace reports no problems, and your position indicates you should have an excellent signal.
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Terry: Is there any actual evidence that 'FM far outstrips DAB as a listening experience'? You've expressed an opinion (and arguably a lot of handwaving), but for most people, the quality difference between the two systems is something that barely registers, if at all.
I've just switched between Radio 3 on FM and on DAB - and yes, the FM is a slightly richer sound, but since DAB squeezes the very high/low frequencies, thats understandable, but for most listening (speech particularly), it makes no difference. If I'm that keen on listening to Radio 3 at top quality on my radios single speaker, then I'll use its internet function.
The bottom line is that DAB gives me 55 stations, FM gives me far less, and provided I get a decent signal, there is no hiss, etc. For most people, thats what matters, and when they are buying a radio today, very few chose the FM only option, because whats the point?
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laura: As I replied to Neil Thompson, the TV cannot get anything from the aerial, and so you do need to check it a bit more. It might be that the actual aerial lead to the socket (the fly lead) is OK, but that only part of a chain going up to the aerial itself. Obviously check that your local transmitter is working properly as well, and ask your neighbours if they have a problem.
Try swaping your existing aerial lead for another one, just to check thats not at fault, and then look at your aerial and the cable going to it. If there is damage or a break, then that might be the problem. If needed, you might have to get a professional to look at it
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Ian: No one is forcing DAB on you, but I understand the problem of upgrading so many radios around the house. We've 3 FM radios, plus an internet/FM/DAB in the kitchen, and its only gradually that will we be replacing them.
However, your car radio is easily upgraded to DAB, for about £70 at the moment. £20 is pretty reasonable for a DAB radio, and there is no reason that it should not last a while. I notice that Argos in 1985 were doing a Ferguson 4 band portable radio for £29.99, and Philips radio with cassette for £32.99 Vintage British Argos 1985 Catalogue - a set on Flickr - allowing for inflation, etc - that Philips would cost between £84 and £115! Consumer goods have hugely fallen in cost, and a Pure radio such as mine is available for around £99, which is much more capable.
The main stereo is actually not a problem to upgrade - there are plenty of DAB units to retrofit to large speaker systems, and in fact, you could run everything via your PC network or through an Ipod. The other sets are probably not worth upgrading, but prices have fallen hugely in the past couple of years, and of course natural wastage means an upgrade anyway.
FM is probably going to be with us for a while yet, in one form or another, but actually we tend to buy new stuff anyway - I'm sure you don't use a tape player much, and almost certainly thats been replaced by a CD player. That player will probably be upgraded to something else at some point, etc.
If that little £20 DAB radio has a line out, there is no reason why you cannot hook it up to older equipment (providing they have a line in), and thus upgrade your equipment at relatively little cost.
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Trevor: This tells you about LNA http://www.sony.com.ph/su…6491
The Imanual does not give much info about what your readings mean, and since my Sony shows info in a different way....
However, where is the strength/signal in relation to the most/least? In other words (unless some kind soul has this TV and can advise), can you see if the strength is in the middle, low or high, and if it is, how much?
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Steve Williams: You need to supply a postcode, then people can see what signal your getting.
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Thursday 29 August 2013 3:05PM
jacquicousins: Firstly, look at the manual....
Secondly, your retuning the TV, not just one channel. The menu should have something like 'setup' - go to it and then find the heading for 'initial setup' or something similar, and go from there.
As I said, read the manual...