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Osem · 22-01-2014, 17:19

Following up on my loft aerial success, I've spent the best part of today running coaxial cable from the new aerial into a downstairs bedroom to serve a Proline LCD tv (lvd1983wd) set in there. Once connected I did a 'first time installation' channel scan which yielded very good results but I found that after turning the TV off and back on again the channels no longer appear to be available. They're still in the channel list but it's as if the aerial has been disconnected and there's no signal. The aerial appears to be working fine but I have no manual for the TV so have been fiddling around wondering if I've been doing something wrong. I've found that for no apparent reason sometimes a channel scan yields a full list whereas other times it picks up few, if any, channels, maybe just 2 local TV test channels.

After scanning there's no option to save the results, the scan just ends and the set switches to TV display mode automatically at which point you can select the channels you want to view. I've heard that some of the older sets/digiboxes may have problems dealing with newer digital frequencies but this set appears to be locating the channels, albeit randomly, just losing them when it's turned off. The TV has been rarely used over the last few years as we could never get a signal in that room. It's therefore been left unplugged most of the time since we got it from a neighbour a few years ago, occasionally used by Osem Jnr. for his Xbox.

So the question is why do successive scans yield such different results and why aren't the channels found retained when the TV is turned off?

There is a menu setting for firmware update somewhere I believe but I'm reluctant to try this without knowing what I'm doing. I've also found a reference to this TV which indicates they were first on sale 6-7 years ago.

TIA as always.

Update:

After quite a lot of searching I found a question posted by someone else last year with the same problem on this TV, stating that the problem started after the digital switchover. Sadly nobody provided an answer...

22-01-2014, 17:19	#1
Osem Inactive Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Right here! Posts: 22,315	Proline TV set not storing channels? Following up on my loft aerial success, I've spent the best part of today running coaxial cable from the new aerial into a downstairs bedroom to serve a Proline LCD tv (lvd1983wd) set in there. Once connected I did a 'first time installation' channel scan which yielded very good results but I found that after turning the TV off and back on again the channels no longer appear to be available. They're still in the channel list but it's as if the aerial has been disconnected and there's no signal. The aerial appears to be working fine but I have no manual for the TV so have been fiddling around wondering if I've been doing something wrong. I've found that for no apparent reason sometimes a channel scan yields a full list whereas other times it picks up few, if any, channels, maybe just 2 local TV test channels. After scanning there's no option to save the results, the scan just ends and the set switches to TV display mode automatically at which point you can select the channels you want to view. I've heard that some of the older sets/digiboxes may have problems dealing with newer digital frequencies but this set appears to be locating the channels, albeit randomly, just losing them when it's turned off. The TV has been rarely used over the last few years as we could never get a signal in that room. It's therefore been left unplugged most of the time since we got it from a neighbour a few years ago, occasionally used by Osem Jnr. for his Xbox. So the question is why do successive scans yield such different results and why aren't the channels found retained when the TV is turned off? There is a menu setting for firmware update somewhere I believe but I'm reluctant to try this without knowing what I'm doing. I've also found a reference to this TV which indicates they were first on sale 6-7 years ago. TIA as always. Update: After quite a lot of searching I found a question posted by someone else last year with the same problem on this TV, stating that the problem started after the digital switchover. Sadly nobody provided an answer...