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Lost digital text service on RTE after rescan

  • 04-11-2013 08:19PM
    #1
    mrtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭


    Lost digital text service on RTE 1 & 2 after rescan DVB-T.
    Philips 40pfl9705h/12 and Philips support useless!
    Thoughts?


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  • #2
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,314 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    What country did you use when setting up the TV, Ireland or UK?

    My brother's non-Saorview approved Philips TV has to be setup with UK as the country for MHEG-5 digital text to work.


  • #3
    mrtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭mrtom


    The Cush wrote: »
    What country did you use when setting up the TV, Ireland or UK?

    My brother's non-Saorview approved Philips TV has to be setup with UK as the country for MHEG-5 digital text to work.

    Yes !!! let me say that again, yes !
    I spent an hour with Euro based Philips support. I pointed out that my model was not on sale in Ireland according to their site and was that relevant. I was told if I bought from Philips in Ireland, it was “An Irish model for the Irish market”. The hour ended with them creating an “Undocumented Issue file” and wished me good luck.
    I then got a lecture from SaorView about the difference between Saor view compatible & approved certification. Did the set have a sticker on it ?
    Anyway your advice = solution.


    Odd thing is how much I missed the text ....


  • #4
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,314 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    In the early days of DTT in Ireland although many non-approved TVs did display the Saorview channels the MHEG-5 software was not activated for the Ireland profile.

    My 2008 Sony V4500 won't do MHEG-5 in either the Ireland or UK profiles now but it did in the UK profile at one point until Saorview changed something.


  • #5
    muincav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 810 ✭✭✭muincav


    The Cush wrote: »
    What country did you use when setting up the TV, Ireland or UK?

    My brother's non-Saorview approved Philips TV has to be setup with UK as the country for MHEG-5 digital text to work.

    Same happened me with an older Samsung (series 4 I think), but when retuned as UK the text worked ok...


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