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4Eyes

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Folks,

I have a (an?) LG DTV and for the 2nd time in less than 2 weeks it has literally hung' while trying to watch channel 9. I know at least one other member here has experienced the same problem with an LG but have not heard others mention it. Did anybody experience this with another DTV brand last night?

BTW, the usual fix did not restore operation so I have to assume whatever 9 did they kept doing for some time. LG claim that it's the broadcasters 'testing'.

I intend to rip LG a new one today. It's not good enough to blame the broadcasters and have no solution to the issue if it is only LG DTV's that have the problem. Grrr and grrr again. Not happy!

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4Eyes

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It looks like Nine may have switched transmitters during the weekend, see the Nine Sydney thread - could be related to your issue?

digitalj,

It's not an antenna issue.

TD,

According to LG, 9 was fluffing around with their transmission power last night, and they are working with channel 9 to overcome difficulties. LG say it's not their issue, but as it appears to be only LG DTV's that do it (as far as I'm aware) then surely it is their issue.

Still, I'd like to know if anybody experienced similar behaviour on non-LG gear. Speak up people!

4Eyes

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digitalj,

It's not an antenna issue.

TDW,

I'll look...

4Eyes

You got my post wrong, what I meant is that if anything isn't upto standard, then when 9 swap transmitters you will get a problem, but if you have as much strength as possible at the receiver end, then your reception issue won't be as obvious when channel 9 does a swap.

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A post in the other thread said their Nine signal went back to full strength about 9pm, so that fits in with this.

Looks like Nine may have switched from Willoughby to Atarmon for a couple of days and switched back last night. Obviously that causes a glitch in their transmission that can cause various problems depending on your STB. I was recording CSI on my Toppy, I'll see if it caused a problem on my Toppy when I watch it later.

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A post in the other thread said their Nine signal went back to full strength about 9pm, so that fits in with this.

Looks like Nine may have switched from Willoughby to Atarmon for a couple of days and switched back last night. Obviously that causes a glitch in their transmission that can cause various problems depending on your STB. I was recording CSI on my Toppy, I'll see if it caused a problem on my Toppy when I watch it later.

digitalj, ah, no, my aerial is not up to scratch yet, but I have taken steps to get it there.

Ah, I see... it was signal strength all along then. Sheesh... (scrapes egg off face...). And gee... didn't I give LG a serve this morning. I really should sit on my hands sometimes.

Regards to all,

4Eyes (with yoke on them)

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G'day,

I had the same problem but no antenna issues - brand new installed last Friday.

My LG HD Palsma with built in HD tuner 'jammed' when changing to Ch9 approx 8:30 last night. Could not do anything with the remote. Also made a loud bang - scared the cr@p out of me.

Rang LG this morning and was told similar "transmission problem". Apparently they had a "...flood of calls."

Does anyone know how/why this happened just on LG?

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I was recording CSI on my Toppy, I'll see if it caused a problem on my Toppy when I watch it later.

I've watched CSI and it all played back fine, so whatever it did didn't affect the Toppy :D but it sounds as if it caused a significant problem to LG (and perhaps Tevion) boxes tho. :blink:

I don't know how often Nine switches transmitters like this (assuming that is what occurred), but it can't be that often. If LG had a flood of calls then they might be able to include a fix in a future firmware, or at least learn from it for future models.

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On talk back radio today in Melbourne they had many callers with LG TV with the built in tuner experience the freeze problem. Interestingly several callers have had this problem before. The common solution was to unplug the TV, this includes all connections wait an hour and start up with the antenna disconnected then select any channel but 9 and connect the antenna again.

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On talk back radio today in Melbourne they had many callers with LG TV with the built in tuner experience the freeze problem. Interestingly several callers have had this problem before. The common solution was to unplug the TV, this includes all connections wait an hour and start up with the antenna disconnected then select any channel but 9 and connect the antenna again.

Ok, I feel I should jump in here as I've been whinging about this issue for a while.

I too have an LG HD Plasma... not even 3 weeks yet, and have experienced the problem twice. Last Saturday was a protacted 'signal blackout' but the first was brief.

The procedure really boils down to disconnect power (any way you see fit... I pull the plug on the tv itself as it's most convinient), pull the antenna cable. Power on, change away from 9, antenna back in. If it 'freezes' again they're stilling stuffing around with the transmitter or otherwise playing silly buggers. There is NO need to wait an hour.

I put it to LG that they should notify new purchasers with perhaps a printed explanation in the box before dispatch but the half-trained monkey on the phone didn't want to hear that. I nearly lost my cool with her but then I realised that she wasn't responsible and could make no difference.

BTW, I made a crack earlier along the lines of how could they do a firmware upgrade. The set has an RS-232 (serial) connector and LG actually have a facility in place to upload firmware updates via it. Would be quite difficult for many people with no technical ability and/or no pc. Here we go... I think Mac users are not catered for. :blink:

And yes, it seems that LG gear is particularly prone to the problem with one reported issue with a Tevion STB. It's still unclear whether maybe it's the area that suffers worse. I'm at Kings Park, Chris59, where are you located?

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4Eyes

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Ok, I feel I should jump in here as I've been whinging about this issue for a while.

I too have an LG HD Plasma... not even 3 weeks yet, and have experienced the problem twice. Last Saturday was a protacted 'signal blackout' but the first was brief.

The procedure really boils down to disconnect power (any way you see fit... I pull the plug on the tv itself as it's most convinient), pull the antenna cable. Power on, change away from 9, antenna back in. If it 'freezes' again they're stilling stuffing around with the transmitter or otherwise playing silly buggers. There is NO need to wait an hour.

I put it to LG that they should notify new purchasers with perhaps a printed explanation in the box before dispatch but the half-trained monkey on the phone didn't want to hear that. I nearly lost my cool with her but then I realised that she wasn't responsible and could make no difference.

BTW, I made a crack earlier along the lines of how could they do a firmware upgrade. The set has an RS-232 (serial) connector and LG actually have a facility in place to upload firmware updates via it. Would be quite difficult for many people with no technical ability and/or no pc. Here we go... I think Mac users are not catered for. :blink:

And yes, it seems that LG gear is particularly prone to the problem with one reported issue with a Tevion STB. It's still unclear whether maybe it's the area that suffers worse. I'm at Kings Park, Chris59, where are you located?

Regards,

4Eyes

http://www.smh.com.au/news/home-theatre/lg...4152957353.html

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I live in melbourne and have a new LG wide CRT TV. I use mythtv and hdmi so it normally operates as monitor. Last Sunday whilst watching CSI I decided to switch over to the built in digital tuner and the TV hung. No menu or any control at all. I switch off and back on and it had hung in about a second of viewing.

Every one wanted to kill me for messing with the tv in the first place. I finally unpluged the antenna and switched of and back on and the plugged back into mythtv and watched what we missed.

So, it must have been in the signal and NOT transmitter as this happend in Melbourne and this appears to be a Sydney thread.

rgds Dale

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I live in melbourne and have a new LG wide CRT TV. I use mythtv and hdmi so it normally operates as monitor. Last Sunday whilst watching CSI I decided to switch over to the built in digital tuner and the TV hung. No menu or any control at all. I switch off and back on and it had hung in about a second of viewing.

Every one wanted to kill me for messing with the tv in the first place. I finally unpluged the antenna and switched of and back on and the plugged back into mythtv and watched what we missed.

So, it must have been in the signal and NOT transmitter as this happend in Melbourne and this appears to be a Sydney thread.

rgds Dale

must be only the tv's as i don't recall any issues with my stb...........might be just lucky

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I noticed last night that Nine HD was skipping and jumping. The signal strength and quality was good and there where no corrupt blocks or artifacts, just dropped frames every 2 seconds or so. All other channels where fine. I'm using a HTPC that I put together. However to be honest Nine has never been a good channel for me, do we know ruffly when all these problems with Nine began ??

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