All posts by Mike
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jb38, thanks for your suggestions, but the answer to my flickering Freeview HD came in an email from Samsung soon after I posted my desperate plea. After several unhelpful replys from Samsung, someone in their customer service department realised there was a firmware update designed to resolve this problem, and gave me all the information to find, download and install it. So far it seems to be working OK, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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jb38: The TV is a Samsung UE40D5520, and the reason for the update is to resolve the problem described in this information from Samsung:
"The flickering is caused by the switching between progressive and interlaced transmissions being received. Interlaced refreshes half of the entire picture at a time whereas progressive refreshes the entire picture, therefore if the display is flickering it is because the transmission is constantly switching between the two."
Hope this information is helpful to you and any others who suffer from the same problem.
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Saturday 31 March 2012 9:44AM
I have a TV with a Freeview HD tuner. The local transmitter (Rowridge) only started HD transmissions on 21st March, and now I find that from time to time the screen goes completely black for a brief moment on all HD programs, which is sufficiently irritating to make them unwatchable. The TV maker (Samsung) say it's due to the broadcaster switching between progressive and interlaced scanning and there's nothing wrong with the TV. I've contacted Digital UK and the BBC's Switchover Help scheme, but neither can help. Am I lumbered with a useless telly? Or will the broadcasters stop messing about with the signal? Anyone got any ideas?