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Hi all,
We have contacted Humax (re: loss of BBC channels on PVR 8000T) and all they keep saying is do a manual tune. We have tried this, along with the factory reset, tuning with no aerial etc. etc, but all to no-avail. Not sure what else we can do, will things return to normal after 14th March or will the BBC Mux still be on far more power than the others (which has been hinted could be our problem, but how too much power affects only one device we don't understand)
Are we going to be forced to throw the Humax away and buy another one?
Any suggestions gratefully received.
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Hi JB38,
Thank you so much for your advice. We disconnected the Humax and plugged it directly into the aerial lead from the aerial on the roof (no booster) and tried to tune it. We received no channels at all, the signal strength was down to around 20% with very poor quality on all channels/muxs. We then plugged in just a booster and that directly into the Humax and tuned. We were back to square one with 80+% strength and no quality on channel55/BBCMux and around 60% strength and 100% quality on all the other 5 channels/mux's, even channel65 with ITV1 and 2 etc. We're going to wait until after the 14th March and see what happens and make a decision then.
Thanks for all your advice, if anyone has any more ideas we'll welcome them.
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Thanks again JB38.
We'll see if we can lay our hands on a set top aerial and carry out your suggestion. We'll see what happens after next Wednesday too.
Thanks again for your advice, of all the people to respond (including Humax who have been no help at all) your suggestions have been the most helpful.
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Hi all, especially jb38.
We've waited for the final switchover at Midhurst and have now lost ALL freeview channels on our Humax8000T PVR. (All TV's OK and have great HD channels on our Samsung which, incidentally,is plugged into the Humax).
Have tried the set top aerial and see no channels (signal strength around 20/30% and 0% quality even when moving it around the house and pointing in all directions).
One question to anyone;
When manual tuning we have options which include MODE (set to auto but does have 8K option) GAURD (set to auto but has 1/4,1/8,1/16,1/32) NETWORK SEARCH (either disabled or enabled). We have tried various permutations but still no channels. Do these options show what could be our problem, what is it that has changed from the previous Freeview transmissions to the current transmissions which our HumaxPVR cannot handle. Any answers appreciated before we end up throwing it in the bin!
Thanks in advance.
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Martin
Thanks for your info re; Humax 8000T
You're pretty close to us (Liss) so it looks like we've a problem with our Humax not accepting something from the new transmissions (8K mode?)
Our Hardware version is NEO REV 1.0
Software is PGTTF2.00.02
Loader Version h3.08
Update Date 18Aug2005
Would appear we've a slightly later software version than yours but imagine that wouldn't make a difference.
If we get rid of it should we let you know on here?
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Monday 5 March 2012 8:09AM
Liphook
Transmitter engineering: Since retuning after the switch over we've lost the BBC Mux (channel55) from our Humax 8000T PVR. It just won't see it no matter what we do (deleting all channels, scanning with no aerial, manual scanning etc) even though it shows 80% strength on the screen. The TV plugged into it has no problem seeing all channels as do all the other TV's in the house. Any suggestions as we're loosing patience!