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Old 06-04-2009, 16:20
madasaflake
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I have a 15" Matsui digital TV as well as other digital TVs round the house. For some reason the Matsui will not pick up BBC 1 and 2 - just today and intermittently. The signal bar is showing signal being received but no picture. All other channels are showing fine on it and all the other TVs are showing the channels. Sometimes they are there and sometimes not. Weird!
Any inkling out there as to why? Have checked the manual and nothing in there to explain it.
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Old 06-04-2009, 23:52
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Have you tried rescanning?
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Old 07-04-2009, 11:29
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Check the cables.
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Old 07-04-2009, 16:09
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They have actually changed the frequency of those channels. do you know what the RF output is on your tv?
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Old 07-04-2009, 16:31
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Thanks all
Will try rescanning but by the time I got back to it after posting it had come back!
Cables are fine.
Will try and find out the last point and reset it if that is the case.
Many thanks for the help.
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Old 10-04-2009, 20:34
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do you know what the RF output is on your tv?
TVs don't have an RF output.
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Old 10-04-2009, 22:06
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I have a 15" Matsui digital TV as well as other digital TVs round the house. For some reason the Matsui will not pick up BBC 1 and 2 - just today and intermittently. The signal bar is showing signal being received but no picture. All other channels are showing fine on it and all the other TVs are showing the channels. Sometimes they are there and sometimes not. Weird!
Any inkling out there as to why? Have checked the manual and nothing in there to explain it.
You've missed one important bit of detail... where are you?
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Old 11-04-2009, 12:46
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You've missed one important bit of detail... where are you?
On the north Kent coast - as far as east as you can go without falling into the sea! Why?
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Old 11-04-2009, 15:12
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On the north Kent coast - as far as east as you can go without falling into the sea! Why?
If you're having problems with reception it's fairly useful to know where you are.
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Old 11-04-2009, 16:02
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If you're having problems with reception it's fairly useful to know where you are.
Fair enough. It is working fine again now but was out again for a little while yesterday afternoon. Very strange how it is intermittent like that, or is that something to do with reception and where I live? Why should it only be BBC?
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Old 12-04-2009, 20:01
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Fair enough. It is working fine again now but was out again for a little while yesterday afternoon. Very strange how it is intermittent like that, or is that something to do with reception and where I live? Why should it only be BBC?

Maybe something else is interfering with the frequency the BBC use, either that or you have fringe reception and there's something atmospheric that makes the signal strength higher every so often.

As for why some of your sets get it when this one doesn't... perhaps it's just not as sensitive a reciever as the others
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Old 12-04-2009, 20:35
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On the north Kent coast - as far as east as you can go without falling into the sea! Why?
i live i brighton on the south coast and have exactly the same -intermittent bbc1 and 2 (actually i find its the whole bbc mux )-i..e no bcc multiscreen either. must be atmospheric -sometimes a picture, , although always with some breakup but sometimes nothing.
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Old 13-04-2009, 09:58
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Thanks everyone for your help - at least I know it's not the TV!
Happy Easter Monday!!
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