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Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Sunday 11 February 2024 5:49AM
Oxford

Hello,

My Toshiba 2017 HD tv which had all channels including HDtv 101,102,103 etc... started to pixelate late October 2023. Then channels 1-5 bbc, itv,c4-5 all were pixelating and unbearable to watch.

We rest/ retuned Automatic and we lost the HD channels, but all others remain. The pixelated on the main 5 channels is still there.

As it's a block of flats, we asked other neighbours and no one has reported issues. We are not sure how to continue to resolve this without expensive costs.

Does anyone have any solutions? Or how do I find the manual tuning frequencies?

Postcode OX2 0HL


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Chris.SE:

Thank you for your response. I forgot to add previously:

1. I tried the reset option on TV, to factory reset. Didn't work.
2. I tried to Automatic return without areal and then with areal, but once again only 101 channels were dowloaded, excluding the previous HD. Also, the BBCs, ITVs and Ch4/5 still don't work.
3. Yesterday, i purchased a 5A F-Plug Amplifier Power Supply 1.25m from Screwfix to see if it's more of a booster issue. The good news is that product did stop the Pixelation with ITV and CH4/5. However, BBC dissapeared. When i retuned with the booster on, it went from 101 channels to approx 88.

Just to also add, the TV is connected to wifi, and everytime I scroll through BBC channels it says 100% Strenght. When I added the booster the strenth actually dropped to less than 50%.

Therefore, even with the booster, there's still some issues.

I will try to play around with the manaul re-tuning later today.

I am just confused to what it could be, as accordiing to the block of flats managment, noone else has complained about it. Therefore, this must be just my TV issue.

thanks for your response.

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Chris.SE:

Thank you! I tried the manual tuning and the maximum channels that managed to upload was 25. Therefore, the manual tuning didn't solve it unfortunately.

I've reset the tv and completed auto tune and now is back to 101 channels, but as per initial post, main channels sync has the BBCs, ITVs, Ch4/5 don't work at all, only the digital channels.

Will call the flat management to see what the resolution is. As I don't think it's the TV.

Any other suggestions are welcomed. But may have to wait for this work to be done maybe.



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