tv on the blink

cats.life

hi guys , has any of your tv,s on the blink asin just gone blue while watching simpsons, all of a sudden the screen went blue, all other stations are the same.

amacachi

Is it on Sky? If so hit the Sky button and if that doesn't work hit the Skybox off and back on 30 seconds later. Any other channels working?

cats.life

rte 1, network 2, tv3 tg4 are gone ,ive sky in the sitting room , but im in bedroom having time out and it just went blue, nothing on screen.

Elmo

Plug it out, check all your connections and plug it back in.

amacachi

cats.life wrote: »

rte 1, network 2, tv3 tg4 are gone ,ive sky in the sitting room , but im in bedroom having time out and it just went blue, nothing on screen.

Where are you? Sounds like the local signal could be dead.

mel.b

Same thing happened here (co.clare). Watching expose and then just got static. Getting it on all 4 channels, although can tune them in to really really bad pictures (normally the picture is very good).

This also happened last week and affected the radio as well. Thought it was me as the tv went in the am, then got into the car and the radio was static as well:eek: Asked a few people at work and their radios were also gone while driving to work.

TV was all fine when I got home in the evening, so don't know what it was/is

cats.life

weird ,sky is ok with rte 1 network 2 tv3 tg4 in other room , sons tv is gone aswell,

Elmo

Do you have sky in your bedroom are are you just on the Free To Air (FTA) services. All seem fine to me if you are just watching via FTA.

As amacachi says it could be a local transmitter problem.

cats.life

amacachi wrote: »

Where are you? Sounds like the local signal could be dead.

im in galway county, but sky rte tv3 tg4 are ok .

cats.life

Elmo wrote: »

Do you have sky in your bedroom are are you just on the Free To Air (FTA) services. All seem fine to me if you are just watching via FTA.

As amacachi says it could be a local transmitter problem.

sky is only in sittng room , the bedroom one is not connected to it just rte.

Elmo

cats.life wrote: »

im in galway county, but sky rte tv3 tg4 are ok .

Sky is a different system to RTÉ NL transmitters, so Sky can work fine regardless of the issues with RTÉ's transmitters.

amacachi

cats.life wrote: »

im in galway county, but sky rte tv3 tg4 are ok .

Of course they are, it's a different signal being received by the Sky box.

Elmo

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0618/rte.html

RTÉ has confirmed that its Maghera transmitter is temporarily out of action.

This means that listeners in the west are unable to hear any RTÉ Radio stations.

Repair crews are working to restore it and listeners can switch to LW 252.

emanresu

There is a problem with the Maghera transmitter.

mel.b

Mine has just come back on. Reception is perfect again. Seems like it was a transmitter problem - there in one that serves both clare & galway.

Edit: just seen above - confirmation of transmitter problem

emanresu

Elmo wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0618/rte.html

RTÉ has confirmed that its Maghera transmitter is temporarily out of action.

This means that listeners in the west are unable to hear any RTÉ Radio stations.

Repair crews are working to restore it and listeners can switch to LW 252.

That link was for last Friday when the same problem occurred.
The tv stations are just back on air now at 6:46pm.

cats.life

amacachi wrote: »

Of course they are, it's a different signal being received by the Sky box.

wo hold the fone just came back guys, bit static..

cats.life

emanresu wrote: »

There is a problem with the Maghera transmitter.

thanks for that thought we were the only one,s over here in the west.

Elmo

mel.b wrote: »

Edit: just seen above - confirmation of transmitter problem

Sorry about the RTÉ link that was from a few days ago when you lost your radio signals.

More info on boards here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=66558867#post66558867

It seems to be a Transmitter problem alright.