Here is a strange one for you.
About a year ago I bought a Humax standard definition set top box. Worked fine for a good few months. I was very impressed with how well it picked up the channels. Only a couple of inches of bare wire would suffice for an aerial that would pick up most channels 99% of the time!!
Anyway about 3 months ago it would not pick up channel 7 any more. Not at all. Not one quarter of a second of it. Nothing! Nothing changed in my stereo setup. It just would not work any more.
All other channels are picture perfect. I didn't think much of it at the time and just switched back to normal TV as I didn't think it was a fault with the Humax unit. I thought it might be the rooftop antenna getting a little rusty or something....
Anyway today I tried to tackle the problem head on. I was tired of switching from the TV tuner to the DSTB when watching 7. I took out all coax splitters and connectors that would be suspected of degrading the signal. Still no channel 7. Not even a hint of it.
The TV picks up channel 7 with its internal regular tuner, and all other channels just fine. It is a good antenna on the roof, with a good amount of signal on all channels......
All digital channels work just fine except for any channel that comes from the 7 studios. So I cant see the 7 guide channel, nor can I see 7Digital 1,
7Digital 2 nor 7Digital 3.So what gives? Did channel 7 decide to change their format or something? This is really annoying me!! By the way I purchased the DSTB at HiFi supermarket which has now closed down!!!!
help!
PS, I also tried resetting the DSTB and doing a re-search of channels. After the search completes, the menu shows that it has found channel 7 and all of its variants, but it just won't show them!! The message is "no or bad signal".
I will now try to find some new firmware for the unit. (it has a serial port for this I think) But I didnt think that would be necessary, and playing with firmware downloads in my situation is a bit dangerous I think with no warranty or anything.
Cheers, Phil