[pranasas]

Hello, everyone.

Firstly, I would like to apologize for the undoubtedly improper (but I hope still somehow understandable) terminology I am going to use below, as English is not my mother tongue.

Let's get started. I have Samsung B650 series TV (DVB-T and DVB-C compatibility is integrated in it). Yesterday I subscribed to the digital cable television service, which was brought to me along with "Conax" module and decoding card for scrambled signals. However, soon I realised, that this whole unscrambling thing is struggling mysteriosly:
Once I go though a few channels to decide, what I would like to watch, and finally sit back to enjoy my chosen active channel, almost all the time it is inevitable, that after ~30 seconds and after EVERY following ~30 seconds signal is going to break up for a moment (frame freezes, goes black, "Scrambled signal" message appears shortly), making it reasonably just impossible to watch. After that, changing channels is no good, because very same problem occurs to all of them (all digital ones, of course).

Defect of the "Conax" module? Faulty decoding card? Problem with integrated TV tuner?
Those make no sense, considering my ridiculous yet effective solution: I turn the TV off, then I turn it on again (using remote control, not the power plug) and everything is perfectly fine, provided I do not switch to any other channel.
Conclusion: In order to watch TV, I have to choose the channel, then turn it off and on (I don't spam remote control buttons, so it takes at least 20 seconds, I used a stopwatch), after that whole intolerable interference is eliminated (but what, if a want to change channels ofter, what about commercials, lol). Pretty idiotic for TV unit, which cost me exactly 2-month salary.

What are your considerations about this situation? Personally, I find it as a software-based mistake, TV firmware upgrade changed nothing.

Thank you for support.

[radriderx]

Hi,
I also have a Samsung B650 tv and have it hooked up to a Virgin V+ box - no problems

I did have some issues with picture blocking and sound dropouts but that was down to a cheap/faulty HDMI cable I was using - changed HDMI cable and all ok so far

My advice is to check your connections

Cheers

[Chris Muriel]

What country are you in, Pranasas ?
The OP seems to be using the native TV (with cable tuner built in) and simply plugged a Conax CAM and card into it - no set top box so totally different setup to Virgin Media in UK (where Virgin supply a set top box and the CAM and card reside in the STB).

Chris Muriel, Manchester

[pranasas]

Originally Posted by Chris Muriel

What country are you in, Pranasas ?
The OP seems to be using the native TV (with cable tuner built in) and simply plugged a Conax CAM and card into it - no set top box so totally different setup to Virgin Media in UK (where Virgin supply a set top box and the CAM and card reside in the STB).

Chris Muriel, Manchester

I live in Lithuania.
Yes, you are right about the situation. However, they would have given external tuner - "Dizipia DC-3400CX", which even Google hardly can find - once my TV had failed to support needed standarts. But I do not consider that as a possible solution, because having a second DIZIPIA remote control just for changing channels is maybe even more ridiculous than my situation :D

[Chris Muriel]

I think you need to ask your cable service provider for suggestions.
Perhaps the remote control for the DC-3400CX (made by a company in Korea) can also operate basic functions of your TV.
Many set top boxes and some TVs have remote controls that can also operate other equipment.

Chris Muriel, Manchester

[John Dough]

Common problem with integrated tvs it needs a software upgrade for cam compatability.
The same problem was evident when satellite receivers were first sold about ten years ago.