Hi.
I recently moved to Gibraltar and brought our Panasonic Viera with us. Unfortunatly it doesn't seem to pick up a signal out here even with a digi box linked via scart lead, although 2 other families in our block brought their tv's and they work perfectly. Just wonderd if anyone knew why or what we can try?
Much appreciated

Try and carry out a factory reset on the TV and hopefully when it restarts you will get to select the country.

Maybe the other families' digiboxes are outputting a PAL signal - which the TV can understand - whilst your digibox is outputting (say) SECAM - which your TV cannot understand.

Either try one of their digiboxes in your telly (if you get a signal, nothing wrong with the telly, it is your digibox which is incompatible) or try your digibox with their telly (if they get a signal, nothing wrong with the digibox, it is your telly which has a fault).

Have you tried connecting a DVD or VHS player to the same scart socket to make sure that is working?

It sounds to me that it is the 'digibox' that is at fault or incompatible.
Is it a box that connects to the local terrestrial service or a satellite box? Or is it a UK Freeview box that you brought over?
Find out what your neighbours are using.

Could be where you are, this indicates uhf TV is only available in specific areas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibralt...ng_Corporation

A satellite dish and satellite box would be the answer if the OP can have one.

Unlike Sony Pannies aren't specified to work throughout Europe they release a specific model for the UK.

Thanks all for your replys. The TV can't find any signals when plugged straight into the communial ariel either were as the old beast of a Phillips that was left here works fine using both ariel and digi box. The Panasonic is now in the kids room with the blue ray linked up to it... which the kids think is great but it's driving us mad trying to get it to work. Someone mentioned the uk run onDVB-T and out here DVB-C. Any way of changing the set?
Many thanks

As has been mentioned, Panasonic apparently make country specific TV's (most others are pan-European), so there's probably no way of converting it?.

DVB-C is cable so you would need a local cable box at a guess to access it.

What digibox are you using? Is it a Freeview box or one you bought locally?

It's a telly.

If the digibox is satellite you can pick up signals with a dish.
A Freeview box designed to pick up Freeview is unlikely to get anything outside the UK where the broadcasting format is likely to be different aswell as the frequencies used.

Assuming dish reception is possible for Astra 2 buy a used Sky box and you can get all the FTA channels

No, it's a digibox. Hasn't said whether it's terrestrial, satellite or cable though.

Freeview boxes can work outside the UK, provided the country it is used in also uses the DVB-T standard, and the box fully supports it as well as using frequencies within the tuner's capabilities. There are variations but a quality box that supports all aspects of DVB-T should work fine in other DVB-T territories. What probably wont work is things such as the EPG (although in many cases the now/next info banner still worls) and often the interactive/text services wont work as some countries don't use the MHEG engine.

The thread title and the OPs post says "Panasonic Viera TV won't work out here"

Digibox is mentioned

I know but a UK sourced digibox will have the same problems as the TV. It's a complete red herring .

Basically the TV will work with any local kit capable of delivering a analogue video/audio source (or digital HD via hdmi) by a scart connection. It could be cable, terrestrial or satellite.

The only incompatibility must be down to the tuners in either the TV or a seperate digiboxjust not working with the available broadcast source. Just like in the UK for example, connect a DVB-T2 external box you can watch a HD service if one is in range, by hdmi to a HD Ready TV or in SD by scart to a SD TV without the TV having a suitable tuner.

Not according to post 13

If the OP's TV has DVB-T tuners built in and cannot receive any broadcasts, then a UK digibox that has full DVB-T tuners may also not work. It depends on whether the TV and digibox have tuners that fully conform to the DVB-T specs or are in some way cut down to only work with UK broadcasts . Most do have full DVB-T tuners these days, but it's possible some will have tuners that don't fully conform to the full specs. Plus much of Gibralter uses VHS for their broadcasts not UHF, which would explain why the TV cannot receive any broadcasts. Take my TV, an LG Plasma, according to the specs it fully supports all DVB-T standards and can tune in to broadcasts on both UHF and VHF, so I would expect it to work in Gibralter, but that doesn't necessarily mean the OP's Panasonic set will do so as I believe some Panasonic TVs for the UK market are designed only to work in the UK.

My advice would be for the OP to buy a cheap digibox in Gibralter and just attach it to the TV, either via scart for SD or HDMI for HD (does Gibralter have HD?).

post 13 is inaccurate, Australia uses DVB-T, a UK digibox won't work there as they use a different frequency gap to the UK. A Topfield 5800 can be be made to work in Oz but only by flashing the firmware with an Australian version.