TV only picking up British channels

Shoebelt

Had an old TV with a Saorview box a few years back, the box broke, and only had British channels from then on.

Bought a Samsung smart TV recently, to replace it, and it's not picking up any Irish channels either.

We have an LG smart TV downstairs too, and it picks up the Irish channels fine, albeit with a bit of interference on RTÉ1.

Any idea on what's wrong, or has anyone solved a similar problem?

Thurston?

Even 'a bit of interference' suggests a poor signal for the channels involved.

What part of the country are you in? Do you know what kind of aerial setup you have, & have you checked anything, say starting with something like the plug on the end of the cable?

squadro

Not sure if this will work for you but Irish channels went on a Phillips tv paired with an amiko free view box I have recently and it was solved by selecting Germany (instead of uk) in the region selector on TV and scanning for terrestrial channels. Germany uses similar frequencies to Irish channels is what I was told. Worked for me anyway. They all popped back up. Now if there was something on instead of that Mrs Brown ****e I'd b right.:D:D

GerardKeating

Shoebelt wrote: »

Had an old TV with a Saorview box a few years back, the box broke, and only had British channels from then on.

Bought a Samsung smart TV recently, to replace it, and it's not picking up any Irish channels either.

We have an LG smart TV downstairs too, and it picks up the Irish channels fine, albeit with a bit of interference on RTÉ1.

Any idea on what's wrong, or has anyone solved a similar problem?

Where are you located, and from which transmitters are you getting SaorView and Freeview?

Thurston?

squadro wrote: »

Not sure if this will work for you but Irish channels went on a Phillips tv paired with an amiko free view box I have recently and it was solved by selecting Germany (instead of uk) in the region selector on TV and scanning for terrestrial channels ...

The Samsung TV will have Ireland in the settings, no need to use other countries.

And anyway, even with UK as country, it will find the Irish channels, just with them at the bottom of the list, in the 800 nos. OP should already be aware of this as the LG that did find the channels will behave the same way.

Shoebelt

GerardKeating wrote: »

Where are you located, and from which transmitters are you getting SaorView and Freeview?

We should be getting Saorview from Balleybofey, and Freeview from Limavady, according to the websites.

Thurston?

Shoebelt wrote: »

We should be getting Saorview from Balleybofey, and Freeview from Limavady, according to the websites.

Not that it's relevant here really, but which websites have a location where Ballybofey & Limavady are the recommended sites? Is it the actual Saorview & Digital UK coverage checkers?

Anyhow, your problem is poor signal at both TV points, either just a bit worse where you have the Samsung, or the LG handles poor signal better.

Fingleberries

Shoebelt wrote: »

Had an old TV with a Saorview box a few years back, the box broke, and only had British channels from then on.

Bought a Samsung smart TV recently, to replace it, and it's not picking up any Irish channels either.

We have an LG smart TV downstairs too, and it picks up the Irish channels fine, albeit with a bit of interference on RTÉ1.

Any idea on what's wrong, or has anyone solved a similar problem?

I'd say that the issue is the Samsung TV. I have one in a Freeview overspill area and if the TV is set to "Country: UK" only the British channels show up, the Irish disappear. If I switch the country to Ireland, the Irish channels arrive again, but the UK ones disappear.

I have an older Samsung PVR that allows both channels in one EPG using the same Aerial. It's purely a software setting on the TVs that's messing it around, but Samsung support will not do anything about it.

Gerry Wicklow

I had a similar issue with a Freeview box a few years back. You only got the channels for the appropriate country. You would see it scanning the correct channels but it would delete them from the EPG as 'foreign'. The shop was reluctant to replace it as it was working correctly from the makers point of view.

Shoebelt

Thurston? wrote: »

Not that it's relevant here really, but which websites have a location where Ballybofey & Limavady are the recommended sites? Is it the actual & coverage checkers?

Anyhow, your problem is poor signal at both TV points, either just a bit worse where you have the Samsung, or the LG handles poor signal better.

Have a fella coming over today to have a look at the aerial, hopefully that should sort it. Took the Samsung downstairs, and it picked up the Irish channels, but it was still a bit poorer. Could be as you said, the Samsung not handling the poor signal as well.

Thanks for the help!