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| Thread ID: 52803 | 2004-12-30 09:12:00 | TV help please | paradox (1082) | PC World Chat |
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| 308941 | 2005-01-01 09:02:00 | Thanks folks....I am stilll working for a better understanding of the terms involved but at the moment the wall I've hit is not seeing TV3 at all during a manual preset, and no result for it on an Auto Preset. Before this there's been no problem receiving TV3 or presetting it manually on that TV and as I said, my 14" TV is receiving TV3 just fine using the same aerial directly. Any more suggestions re the vanished TV3....? xxll Special thanks for all the stuff in your post..I'll be brooding over that for a while. It all helps. |
paradox (1082) | ||
| 308942 | 2005-01-01 09:07:00 | And PS...Seasons Greetings to all on the two forums....Ken | paradox (1082) | ||
| 308943 | 2005-01-01 09:14:00 | Poor old paradox,the joys of new fangled inventions eh. Was thinking of buying a dvd,but the thought of the cryptic instructions put me off. :confused: Good luck anyway. web.icq.com |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 308944 | 2005-01-01 09:18:00 | I don't know if this is any help but here in the south TV3 is on UHF. Does the TV find TV3 with the video out of the loop? Which is what Tweek'e suggested. My own tuning experiences engender sympathy for you. Auto scan is useless most of the time. And some TVs and videos these day have the critical controls only on the remote - no equivalent on the machine itself. :mad: |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 308945 | 2005-01-01 19:20:00 | Hi Ken Sorry I was away from my computer for a day or so. One of the confusing thing I find when trying to help other people, is they call the TV stations "Channel" they call the program numbers on the TV -VCR "channel" (and manufactures have not helped in wrongly labeling it) and of course the frequency range that has the TV Station should be the only thing called "channel" This "channel-channel-channel" thing talk does not help in solving problems. Take TV1 in Auckland that is on Channel 2 that has the frequency band from 54 MHz to 61 MHz, Most people (to save confusion) have assigned TV 1 to program 1 on there TV -VCR, TV2 to program 2, TV3 to program 3, Crap4 to (not on my TV). So when we don't like the program on say TV2 and press button "1" on the remote, The TV goes to program 1 to show TV1. It is very odd that "xxll" says Program 1, Channel 001 = TV1 Program 2, Channel 002 = TV2 When the transmitter site always has a unused cannel on each side of the TV station to avoid CO-channel interference. I am not sure where to go from here until we get rid of this "channel-channel-channel" confusion, are you confuesd? I am. I downloaded the manual from support.panasonic.co.nz One more thing I fixed up the link from my web site, maybe you could go to www.lincrad.co.nz and um, um do something, I know, work out which area you get your TV stations from. |
Eric (378) | ||
| 308946 | 2005-01-01 21:54:00 | Eric, I share your frustration in this matter. It's not easy conveying the difference. In my view "channel" is the frequency the program is broadcast on, anything else is just a "program number" that subsequently gets assigned. If you know where the transmitter is located for TV3 in any area, the real frequency and polarisation (horizontal or vertical aspect of the aerial) can be found here: spectrumonline.med.govt.nz It sounds to me as if the VCR being tuned is only being set for VHF and not UHF? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 308947 | 2005-01-01 22:50:00 | I would of thought Hamilton had TV1 on channel 1, TV2 on channel 3, leaving TV3 and Crap4 somewhere on band3 (with Vertical polarization for the aerial) | Eric (378) | ||
| 308948 | 2005-01-01 23:19:00 | Can Hamilton get TV3 on channel 5 from Waihi? Otherwise they might have to point the Band 3 aerial in a different direction and get it from Huntly on channel 11. |
Eric (378) | ||
| 308949 | 2005-01-01 23:32:00 | Firstly, in no way am I an expert. I bow to the superior knowledge of Eric and godfather. Yes Eric, I got it wrong. In my table, Channel 2 = TV2, should have read Channel 4 = TV2 What I listed is what I gleaned from my on-screen display during set-up. I wrote it down on paper and changed the numbers to suit my remote control and everything worked afterwards. I will only confuse the issue if I try to describe that part further so will leave it at that. I have just checked out a small hand-held TV. It has two lines on the front panel with tuning scale numbers listed. An upper line shows a tuning scale for UHF and a lower line shows a scale for VHF. I can confirm that TV3 shows up on the VHF, not the UHF scale markings. On the VHF scale they come up in this order as it scans across. TV1, TV2, TV4, TV3. On the UHF scale they come up in the order of, Maori TV, Racing, Prime. (The scale markings seem to conform with the table I listed in my earlier post as to which Channel shows where, excluding the error I listed for TV2 of course) Another thing I noticed, is that TV3 comes up twice on the hand held (that will be what you were talking about Eric I guess), once just before the Channel 011 position (where it is very fuzzy to watch), and further along right on the Channel 011 position where it is quite clear. I wonder if you have it set on the fuzzy one, but maybe it does not do that in your area. I'm on a hill and can see both the Te Aroha and Cambridge area transmitting aerials. Hope I have not further confused the issue for you Paradox. |
xxll (5902) | ||
| 308950 | 2005-01-02 10:54:00 | Once again...thanks..you're a great bunch..I'll be going over these answers and links for some time I think. I still have the puzzle of the 14" TV receiving TV3 with no trouble and the 22" TV unable to even preset TV3 either with auto or manual.. On my rare efforts in the past, to preset the 22" set I've had no real trouble presetting TV1 TV2 TV3 and TV4. Looks like I just may have to call up one of the local pros about that. Cheers...Ken | paradox (1082) | ||
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