Lost channels

brightkane

Hi guys

I had an old 37 inch Philips TV in the bedroom and had the 17 upc analogue channels in it. I got a 40inch h Sony and when I auto tune it only picks up e4. Ch4 and discovery. Any idea why or if I can manually enter the other channels and if so what are the settings? Thanks in advance.

Atlantic Dawn

Below is the frequency listing from a thread some time ago, looks to me that your TV doesn't have the frequency range to pick them up, could be the TV was for UK market or something like that. Is there any option to select the bands it searches from?

CH 05 / 176 MHz - RTE Two
CH 06 / 184 MHz - TV3
CH 07 / 192 MHz - RTE One
CH 09 / 200 MHz - UTV
CH 10 / 208 MHz - TG4
CH 11 / 216 MHz - BBC One NI
CH 12 / 224 MHz - BBC Two NI
CC 11 / 232 MHz - Sky1
CC 13 / 248 MHz - Setanta Ireland
CC 15 / 256 MHz - 3e*
CC 16 / 264 MHz - Nickelodeon/Comedy Central
CC 17 / 272 MHz - MTV
CC 18 / 280 MHz - Sky News
CC 34 / 408 MHz - Sky Living
CH 21 / 471 MHz - E4
CH 30 / 543 MHz - Channel 4
CH 34 / 575 MHz - Discovery Channel

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056825676

brightkane

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Below is the frequency listing from a thread some time ago, looks to me that your TV doesn't have the frequency range to pick them up, could be the TV was for UK market or something like that. Is there any option to select the bands it searches from?

CH 05 / 176 MHz - RTE Two
CH 06 / 184 MHz - TV3
CH 07 / 192 MHz - RTE One
CH 09 / 200 MHz - UTV
CH 10 / 208 MHz - TG4
CH 11 / 216 MHz - BBC One NI
CH 12 / 224 MHz - BBC Two NI
CC 11 / 232 MHz - Sky1
CC 13 / 248 MHz - Setanta Ireland
CC 15 / 256 MHz - 3e*
CC 16 / 264 MHz - Nickelodeon/Comedy Central
CC 17 / 272 MHz - MTV
CC 18 / 280 MHz - Sky News
CC 34 / 408 MHz - Sky Living
CH 21 / 471 MHz - E4
CH 30 / 543 MHz - Channel 4
CH 34 / 575 MHz - Discovery Channel

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056825676

Balls. Looks like mine go's from 21 to 69 only

The Cush

brightkane wrote: »

Balls. Looks like mine go's from 21 to 69 only

What country setting did you use on installation? On previous Sony TVs if you used UK it disabled the VHF tuner but if you used Ireland the VHF tuner was available. I doubt they've removed the VHF tuner option considering cable TV here still uses the VHF band.

brightkane

The Cush wrote: »

What country setting did you use on installation? On previous Sony TVs if you used UK it disabled the VHF tuner but if you used Ireland the VHF tuner was available. I doubt they've removed the VHF tuner option considering cable TV here still uses the VHF band.

In the excitement I chose UK. Switched to Ireland and all aok now. Cheers for the help folks!

brightkane

On a side note. Anyone know when Virgin are turning off the analogue service?

The Cush

brightkane wrote: »

On a side note. Anyone know when Virgin are turning off the analogue service?

They haven't made any sort of announcement on this yet. The still had 32,000 analogue-only TV subscribers at the end of Dec, not to mention digital TV and broadband subscribers who use the analogue channels on their secondary and main TVs.

icdg

Moved to Cable

7upfree

The Cush wrote: »

They haven't made any sort of announcement on this yet. The still had 32,000 analogue-only TV subscribers at the end of Dec, not to mention digital TV and broadband subscribers who use the analogue channels on their secondary and main TVs.

Many of the digital customers also use the analogue, so not as cut and dried as people think. Massive repercussions for them in switching it off.

Chris_Bradley

Anyone come across RTE 2 HD frequency as of yet?

Capt'n Midnight

Chris_Bradley wrote: »

Anyone come across RTE 2 HD frequency as of yet?

Analog means PAL means 576 lines.

colm_mcm

think they use the hd channel at the headend so the hd logo still comes up even though it is far from it.

icdg

That wasn't the case last time I checked, the SD feed was still used on analogue.

Chris_Bradley

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Chris_Bradley wrote: »

Anyone come across RTE 2 HD frequency as of yet?

Analog means PAL means 576 lines.

No bother got sorted anyway.