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No BBC HD on Panny TX-37LZD81
I know BBC HD has changed sats, but now I don't have BBC HD on my Panasonic TX-37LZD81. Was OK last night. I have retuned etc and still not there. Showing "no signal". The instructions say TV will receive DVB-S and DVB-S2. All other channels appear OK.
Any ideas?
Mikembe
Any ideas?
Mikembe
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Got in touch with my panny dealer. Talked me through Total "Factory Reset" using "secret button" combinations to access it
10/10 and a gold star to "Jody" at Panasonic.
Mikembe
(Assuming it was actually secret rather than just a menu option
Anyhow does this so called secret code still delete non-freesat channels?
I will never touch Panasonic products however good they may be. They follow their own specifications. People who bought their free view products in the early days were rendered useless by OTA software updates. The Saga of I player and in my case I bought a mini disc unit which only worked with 1 ft optical lead where as Sony JVC etc all work fine with longer optical cables. The other example was that in Leicester a LOCAL channel MATV used CH 69 Analogue, However Panasonics could never tune that channel as they decided the UK spec was CH 21-68 although 69 was a legal Channel. The wide band aerial specification was CH 21-68 so they based their TV spec on that.
rant over
Kirit
I have the PZ81 and freesat auto re-tune was not enough, nor was manual tuning on "other sat" mode - it found the new channels and listed them but "no signal" onscreen.
kerry - auto setup is not enough
mikembe - don't you mean "shipping condition"? It's on the menus so not really secret and asks "are you sure" 2 times over, then you have to switch off the tv and on again and go through scanning, postcode input etc.
Shipping condition reset is by itself not so bad just for freesat retuning, but it does return all your other settings to defaults and any "other sat" tuning/sorting will have to be done again which can be extremely slow. AV / HDMI settings also have to be reallocated / renamed if you don't use the default names provided. The same happened when CH4HD was officially launched.
Conclusion; Panasonic 2008 sets can handle DVB-S2 but cannot do so automatically so any future changes of this sort will also require full shipping condition resets because I cannot imaging P bothering to upgrade the software to take account of this.
"Secret button" combination was:
1). Press the V- button down on TV whilst pressing the i button down. Hold until reset screen comes up.
ie. The Volume minus button on tv and the information button on the remote control.
2). Turn TV off (on TV not remote) wait 30 secs. Turn on again. Wait for it to retune and all should be OK again.
Worked great.
Probably known to most of you guys anyway.
regards
Mikembe
So did this delete existing channel settings and TV settings, or did it bring back loads of channels you had previously deleted and make it neccessary to reset all of your picture and sound settings?
Plus
I guess any factory reset to shipping condition on Panasonics might also lose you any firmware updates that had been set up and these will have to be done again and may not be available OTA. Well done P!
How would the box be able to revert the firmware ?. Once it's overwritten by a new one that's it. The only way to reflash the firmware is a new update.
Put your toys back in the pram,and save your sarcasm until what you fear will happen actually does!!:rolleyes:
I think you will find Grahams post to be correct,but then he is one of those on these forums who mostly knows what he is talking about.
Are you thinking of posting this same question on any other threads apart from the two you have posted it on already!!:rolleyes:
I will need to do this too tonight, so can someone confirm whether this "secret" combination does the same as a shipping reset? If so, I'll make a note in advance of the important settings that I've tweaked.
Thanks!
Matt
is a problem, I have one & others confirm this model; also failed to self reset to the new HDs .
JO
Mine is a 2010 model although not the same as yours.to be honest I was very surprised to see that it had updated automatically!!
Only hassle was having to add "other sats" :mad:
Mikembe
Thanks, won't be using that method then either.
It's worse than I remembered
There is no option to scan FTA only, so you have to delete every $ky channel irrespective of how it's flagged.
What a pain :eek:
Well my parents had a Panasonic Freeview TV and it was knocked out by an OTA update and I contacted Panasonic and they sent me a memory stick with different firmware and I followed their instructions and hey presto everything was OK after that.
Full marks to Panasonic for that!
It does the same as "factory reset" plus more...
After the buttons have been pressed you see a results screen for a self diagnostics, but when the TV reboots you are presented with the screen that allows you to edit/re enter the security screen to enter your name,postcode,house number, not the screen to show regional channels but the one I thought could never be changed from the first time the TV was powered up, pointless security then?
:eek: Failasonic.. PMSL what a bunch of divs