All posts by jb38
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g wilson: Referring to the Panasonic, have you pressed the top right hand button on its remote control marked AV, and then scrolled down the HDMI input numbers shown and pressed on the one you have plugged the lead from the Humax into?
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g wilson: In addition, dont have the scart lead connected at the same time as the HDMI one, as its not required.
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tony: If by full you are meaning the commercial muxes as well then its likely that you are picking them up from Stockland Hill @ 23mls / 47 degrees.
You should try swinging your aerial around to Beacon Hill @ 11mls / 213 degrees as its also a full service transmitter, but its all total hit and miss though, and as you will obviously realise you are virtually next door to your local Dawlish PSB only transmitter.
To save yourself confusion, you should first of all scrub the channels you have already stored by carrying out a factory reset, then manually tune in Beacon Hill on the following:- Ch60 (BBC1) - Ch53 (ITV1) - Ch57 (HD) - Ch42 (SDN) - Ch45 (ArqA) - Ch51 (ArqB)
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g wilson: You shouldn't require to alter anything on your Humax, because if you are viewing a programme on your Panasonic using only a scart connection between both devices, then place the Humax box (or TV) into standby whilst removing the scart lead and replacing this with the HDMI lead, if you then bring the Humax back out of standby and select the HDMI socket number used via the AV button (as was previously mentioned) if nothing comes on then the fault could be with either device.
Pity you haven't got (or could borrow) a DVD player with an HDMI socket, as that would verify if the TV's HDMI inputs were OK, obviously using the same procedure for connecting the DVD as was described for the Humax.
By the way, I am not saying you have done, but don't connect / disconnect HDMI or scart leads whilst both devices are operational, as you stand the danger of damaging the inputs on either, always have one device in standby, preferably the TV.
A final point I meant to say, that on Panasonic TV's the No1 HDMI input has auto-detect switching, whereby anything connected into this socket will make the TV automatically switch over to it as soon as whatever is taken out of standby.
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g wilson: Although you may do this anyway, but another point I was thinking about was that always have the TV switched on before the Humax, if you haven't done this switch the Humax off from its rear power switch (on LH side) wait about one minute then switch it back on again, its just that when I mentioned about putting the TV into standby whilst altering connections I forgot that by doing that you are reversing the procedure, and which might cause switching problems.
If this makes no difference, then as a final test go into the Humax settings menu / TV set up, and on looking down the list make sure that HDCP default is set to enable, if its not then change it, then switch the box off then on again as described above.
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helen ballinger: Well if by stating "digibox" you are meaning a Freeview box working through a normal aerial works OK, then it does suggest that the "tuner" in your LG TV has developed a fault, albeit this being a most uncommon thing to happen, and in most cases usually only does on TV's or boxes fed from an outdoor aerial after having experienced a very high level of static rain from a thundercloud, but even then it only happens once in the proverbial blue moon!
By the way, the only reason I highlighted "digibox" is, that this is the very commonly used term to describe a Sky box working from a Satellite dish.
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Bob H: Well its really a case of what readings you get on the old Sky box, as they are basically a better standard to judge on because all the readings obtained are from the same default transponder, so if on a Sky box you see about 75% (or more) signal and quality being indicated then this is fine.
Humax Freesat devices can vary slightly from one model to another as well as them changing between high and low channels, Sky boxes generally don't vary because of the aforementioned reason.
This said assuming that you are referring to indications seen on the Humax? as if so its still OK.
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Shaz: You obviously purchased the simpler type of splitter which only really works properly for doing as its called, that is splitting its single common input to feed (outwards) two devices at the one time, the type you require basically looks the same but has a selector button on it that enables switching between the common single lead and each of the two sockets, as that allows each device plugged into it to be independently selected.
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g wilson: Thanks for the update as I was wondering how you got on. Well now you have found that your BT vision box works perfectly OK via the HDMI connection to your TV then it would certainly appear that you have been unlucky for the second time with one of these boxes, as although I am aware from the past that quite a number of people using these boxes experienced what's commonly known as "HDMI handshake" problems when attempting to couple the box into a TV, but to my knowledge this problem had been rectified, that said though, the fact of you previously having stated that the box in question had been a replacement for another with a fault now makes me a bit suspicious as to whether or not the one you were given is one of the older versions that may have been kicking about in some store room, hence having missed out on the frequently transmitted "over air" software updates, or of course on the other hand its just another duffer for other technical reasons.
Anyway, you have given it your best!
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Tuesday 17 January 2012 1:41PM
Tina: Although you will no doubt see quite a few being advertised with varying price levels, if you want a good quality box with excellent backup facilities then you cant go wrong with a Humax brand "Freesat" box, I highlight Freesat as it simply connects into the same two "F" connectors as is used by the Sky box, nothing else requires to be done.
Model referred to being a Humax FOXSAT-HDR which does exactly the same as your Skybox, this available via web sources with various sizes of hard drive, the standard being 320Gb.
If though there is any particular reason for wanting a Freeview recorder then Humax also has Freeview versions, these obviously working though a normal aerial, the model being a Humax HDR FOX-T2.