Reception issues with my Samsung LCD/LED TVs

FiDad on 14/06/2013 - 22:03

HI All,

I have got this issue for last few weeks now and i was hoping one of you might be able to point me in right direction.

The issue is effecting both my 3 year old Samsung Lcd TV in living room and also with my 1 year old samsung LED Tv in the bedroom. Both TVs seems to have reception issues with all channel 7 digital channels and also channel 9 channels from time to time. Either there is no reception for these channels or i get very grainy feed. This only started happening few weeks ago before that everything used to work fine.All channel 10 channels seems to work fine.

I am able to get good reception if i use media player/pvr bought from below deal
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/94609

Do you guys have any idea as to what can be done to resolve this issue? i have already tried factory reset on both TVs but that didn't help at all.

Electrical & Electronics

Comments

  • Hoju on 15/06/2013 - 09:01

    If you're in an apartment building, often the feed to your aerial socket comes from a common area/wiring setup that might have been compromised somehow.
    Same thing happened to us.

    If you're in a house or using a standalone antenna, hmm no idea. We had problems when we moved TVs and picked up an amplified antenna on sale at DSE for $30, which was $80 so must have been pretty good, as it solved the problem.

  • _Bruce_ on 15/06/2013 - 09:03

    Does the reception getting worse match up with rainy weather?

    The things that affect this are:

    1. Location
    2. Quality of the tuner
    3. Weather
    4. Antenna

    You can't do much about anything other than 4.

  • donga100 on 15/06/2013 - 15:14

    I had a similar problem before. Paid $80 for a tech to come out and tell me I needed a new cable connecting the antenna to the tv. :(

    The reception through pvr was fine because I used a different cable.

  • FiDad on 16/06/2013 - 12:20

    Thanks Guys i will look into a external antenna/new cable

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