Any TV experts here?

Interestingly, a friend rang me this morning, to say that he was at the house of a work colleague, and he was having a similar problem to you with a Sammy 32". It actually kept reporting "Weak Signal" on the screen, apparently.

I suggested that he did a complete 'new install' retune, to see what happened. he rang back a couple of hours later to say that it was all now sorted and working fine with quote "hundreds of channels". The only problem that he had was that he reckons that he could not find a new install option in the tuning sub-menu, so he did a bit of thinking outside the box, and selected a 'wrong' country setting, and then asked it to do a retune. This, he claims, caused it to find nothing, which cleared out the tuning memory, so that when he set it back to "UK" and repeated the procedure, it found all the correct multiplexes for where the antenna was pointing.

I was a bit sceptical about there not being a total reset option buried somewhere 3 or 4 menu levels down, but whatever. His method did the job, even if it was a bit around the houses ...

OK on the nic. It is of course my tongue-in-cheek tribute to the great George Cole, and one of my favourite characters of his, Arthur Daley

Arfa

With nothing to lose, I tried that. I got great ITV pictures and no BBC!

So - I reset to factory condition and then retuned.

Right now I've got good pictures on *all* channels!

There's *nothing* worse than an intermittent fault! Grrrr!

Gottcha! 8-)

It was working fine, then didn't work? This suggests a possible change in reception conditions. You should definitely swap the sets, as suggested.

However...

You've lost SD reception (SD being 625-line PAL), but not HD, right? As far as I know, SD and HD use separate tuners. (I think.) I could be that the SD tuner has gone out.

"William Sommerwanker"

.... Phil

Do you mean just the front end, or the IF section, too?

Given his description, it's hard to believe it was caused only by a change in signal level.

We'll have a better when he swaps the sets.

"William Sommerwaker "

I am consantly impressed with your erudite contribution to this ng.