All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Chris: When it goes straight to Update having pressed Power/Standby for about 5 seconds (this is a soft reset), does it not respond to a momentarily press of Power/Standby, which in my experience will interrupt its Update and turn it on?
If it doesn't then I would be inclined to unplug the incoming aerial lead followed by a soft reset and leave it doing its Update. This could perhaps take longer than normal so I would go away and leave it to it.
When I set mine to France, as a workaround to the problem, the Updates ran for almost an hour and a half.
A factory reset on these devices can be performed by holding the Stop button and pressing Power/Standby button (both buttons on the front of the machine and not the remote), this being whilst it is powered on and with any DVD/CD disc in the drive removed.
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Chris: I should add that it is my understanding that a factory reset (Stop+Power) can only be performed whilst the machine is on. You might like to try it and report back whether it works whilst apparently stuck in Update mode.
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grandma: If you set the Country to France then it will need setting back to the UK in order to get the Guide working.
Go to System Menu > Initial Setup > Basic > Easy Setup
(These are the command names on the HXD-RDR870 - I guess they might be the same on other affected models.).
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Dawn: This usually happens because the channels affected are on the highest frequency and therefore found last during the scan. By the time it gets to them there is no more memory due to having filled it up with signals from "other" (unwanted) transmitters. The trick is usually to unplug the aerial during part of the scan so as prevent it from picking up some of these other signals.
Knowledge of your location may allow us to determine whether this may indeed be the case and suggest which portion of the scan you should unplug your aerial.
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Paul Smedley: If ITV on logicial channel number (LCN) 003 is the wrong region (and therefore the wrong transmitter) then other services carried on the same multiplex (same signal) which include Channel 4 and Channel 5 may also be wrong. They may also have S4C on LCN4 and Channel 4 on LCN8 because it is tuned to a Welsh transmitter.
Identify what is being picked up. There may be another "ITV North West" in the 800s.
Bring up the signal strength screen on LCN800. It should give you the UHF channel number it is tuned to.
Barrow Town Hall broadcasts vertically on C41. Lancaster, which may be available, also broadcasts vertically but on C24. Winter Hill's ITV (PSB2 multiplex) is on C59 and therefore will be found after these two. I imagine that ITV Wales at that location is likely to be picked up from Moel-y-Parc which is on C39.
You may be able to wipe what's stored. This could perhaps be achieved by running the automatic tuning scan through with the aerial unplugged. Then if manual tuning is available, tune in the five standard definition channels of Winter Hill:
PSB1 | BBC One = C50
PSB2 | ITV = C59
COM4 | ITV3 = C58
COM5 | Pick TV = C49
COM6 | Film4 = C55
If the set has a HD tuner in-built then PSB3 carries those services and is on C54. It uses DVB-T2 signal mode rather than DVB-T and this may need specifying on the manual tune screen.
Or you may be able to have the aerial lead unplugged for unwanted signals. Try starting it off unplugged and plugging in at 50%. This can be a trial and error procedure so if it doesn't achieve success first time (e.g. you are missing some channels) then post back and I will make a suggestion of what I would do.
(Obviously the options availavle may depend on the design of the set.).
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Dave Hollingdale : Can you confirm what state the device was in when you did a factory reset (hold stop and press power)?
I know it works when powered on with no disc in the drive. Was yours stuck in Update mode when you did it?
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Dave Hollingdale : Thanks. It appears that the factory reset might be worth a shot if stuck in Update mode.
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stephen Lewis: Whilst Digital UK suggests that reception might be possible at the postcode, narrowing it down to the house name it gives nothing. Looking at the OS map there are a lot of contour lines. Are you in a dip?
Wenvoe is 218 degrees. Does the ground go upwards in that direction?
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Sunday 21 July 2013 11:16PM
Kirsty: Transmitter engineering work maybe.
The first thing not to do is retune.