Hi Gavtech, many thanks for your reply; I won't be able to look at it now until pm tomorrow but 2 immediate queries come to mind:
1) When you say connect by scart lead do you mean between the TV and the recorder?
Yes. The important part is to get the HDMI disconnected to prove [ or otherwise] that it is the cause of the problem. So you need a scart connected so that you can see the output of the 880 to check that the channels are OK or not.
2) What is the main unit - the recorder or the TV?
I guess the questions sound a bit dumb & I think I now know the answer to 2) - it's the actual recorder not the remote - is that right?
jack.
Yes - I mean the actual 880 unit - It wont work if done on the remote.
It may be worth scanning [ retuning ] with the aerial disconnected first. This clears out all existing channel placeholders.
You then reconnect the aerial and rescan once more...which will give a clean install of the channels.
For one thing - as more and more transmitters are boosting their power with the changeover you could now be receiving from more than one transmitter, so the unit may have tuned to the wrong transmitter which may also account for the poor readings you are getting.
Hopefully a cleaner install would help the unit overcome that problem.
If not then it will be down to checking which transmitter you should be receiving and manually tuning to the correct RF channels.
Once you have tried a scart only connection - then a retune, hopefully it will be clearer where the problem lies - if it remains.
