dtv, can hear rte and tv3 but no picture

cloneslad

Just looked at the title and realised there were alot of 3 lettered abbreviated words.

Anyway, to my question. I have a 52inch (I think)Samsung, model: ps-50q7hd

I have a freesat box attached and I also have a tv ariel attached too. The picture was terrible so I got a new aerial on the roof, think it's a HD ariel.

Prior to getting it, I couldn't get anything on the "DTV" part of the tv, but tonight I scanned through and got 5 channels, 2 radio station radio 1 and 2fm, but I also got rte 1, rte 2 and tv3.

I was happy to see them coming up as i'd love to get them with a great picture, only problem is I can only hear them on the tv and not actually see a picture.

does anyone know why this is? Thanks for the help, and I hope this is in the right forum

eddiem74

It's most likely your TV only supports MPEG2 whereas Irish DTV is MPEG4.

See this forum for more info.

cloneslad

well that tv is a lot of use if that's the case. it's my dads tv anyway, he prob shouldn't have bought it from the back of his mates lorry

*Edit- Thanks for the response

big_moe

only some of the most recent TVs will have MPEG4 tuners built in, but you can buy MPEG4 decoders cheap enough. and you can also get an MPEG4 DTV/Satellite decoders as well, so that'd be an all-in-one solution!

howamidifferent

big_moe wrote: »

only some of the most recent TVs will have MPEG4 tuners built in, but you can buy MPEG4 decoders cheap enough. and you can also get an MPEG4 DTV/Satellite decoders as well, so that'd be an all-in-one solution!

Can you link to something that could be used with an mpeg2 tv to view the mpeg4 broadcasts?

big_moe

in work we used to sell this one for €149. but they havent had any in stock for a good while now http://www.hinke.dk/pdf/Produktblad%20HT0100.pdf

the only ones i can find now are the dtt/satellite boxes http://www.satellitesuperstore.com/technomatehd.htm#6900

adam