New here, so hopefully asking this right.
Panasonic FS350 TV and DMR-EX97 freeview hdd/dvd recorder. Both 4 years old and worked out of the box until now.
3 days ago, I lost all the HD channels on the recorder and suspected the communal aerial at first, however neighbours have no problems.
Tried new aerial and HDMI leads - no change.
Tried auto and manual retunes - no change (DMR can't find anything on blocks 40, 41 or 55 and the rest are poor quality)
While doing the above, I noticed the TV was getting all SD and HD channels with strong signals (say 80%) but only if the DMR was on standby. If the DMR was on, the TV also started losing channels. TV worked fine when connected directly to the aerial socket.
Yesterday, the DMR randomly auto-tuned all HD channels back and about 15 SD but still with a lot of SD channels missing. I did another auto-tune and the HD channels had gone again.
I figured that since the TV worked fine on its own, the DMR must be the problem and got a new one. And it does the same thing...
As a last-ditch test, I tried again with only HDMI (no RF cable) from the TV to the DMR and it got back the HD channels and most, not all, SD. So now I'm starting to suspect the TV might be doing something to the DMR, but can't think what or why.
Sorry for a rambly first post but maybe someone can tell me if I've missed something?
Panasonic FS350 TV and DMR-EX97 freeview hdd/dvd recorder. Both 4 years old and worked out of the box until now.
3 days ago, I lost all the HD channels on the recorder and suspected the communal aerial at first, however neighbours have no problems.
Tried new aerial and HDMI leads - no change.
Tried auto and manual retunes - no change (DMR can't find anything on blocks 40, 41 or 55 and the rest are poor quality)
While doing the above, I noticed the TV was getting all SD and HD channels with strong signals (say 80%) but only if the DMR was on standby. If the DMR was on, the TV also started losing channels. TV worked fine when connected directly to the aerial socket.
Yesterday, the DMR randomly auto-tuned all HD channels back and about 15 SD but still with a lot of SD channels missing. I did another auto-tune and the HD channels had gone again.
I figured that since the TV worked fine on its own, the DMR must be the problem and got a new one. And it does the same thing...
As a last-ditch test, I tried again with only HDMI (no RF cable) from the TV to the DMR and it got back the HD channels and most, not all, SD. So now I'm starting to suspect the TV might be doing something to the DMR, but can't think what or why.
Sorry for a rambly first post but maybe someone can tell me if I've missed something?