Hi all,
Helping a friend in Republic of Ireland (cheaply). Got a TX-L32G20B which I know is old, and this may be the cause of the issue.
Rented house with old Sky satellite dish, previous renter said was working, twin cable with good connector coming into the house.
TV works on DVD with SCART and HDMI inputs from computer.
Dish is only providing a single room - dish is mounted above lounge, twin cables come down and straight into lounge. No internet connection etc, just TV plugged into power and one of the sat cables screwed in.
The TV has Freesat and Freeview build in, I screwed one of the twin cables in (TV only has a single socket), also tried the other cable, get exactly the same result.
After auto-tuning, have a full TV guide, up to date programs, listings, HD or SD etc. Information button also shows the content of the show. Press OK to watch ANY station and TV screen goes black and ‘No service’ is displayed in a white rectangle with red writing. Same for the radio stations etc.
I reset the TV to factory settings, have retuned with either FreeSat, or ‘Other Sat’ and get same result.
I’m definitely getting ‘No service’ and not ‘No signal’
Doing some reading it seems the older Panasonics had issues with FEC (but would this only be on the ITV or cause everything to fail?
I need to double check the power is on to the LNB (advised on another site) but having done a factory reset and checked the firmware i would have thought the LNB power would have been set to ‘on’.
So - it could be the TV FreeSat tuner has given up the ghost. TV works fine on SCART and HDMI inputs. OR, previous owner had a Sky Box - and does that only work with their dish? I thought as I am getting a populated TV guide that everything is OK - saying Astra2 sat.
I understand that you can get the channel list populated but this does not mean you get a signal.
Helping a friend in Republic of Ireland (cheaply). Got a TX-L32G20B which I know is old, and this may be the cause of the issue.
Rented house with old Sky satellite dish, previous renter said was working, twin cable with good connector coming into the house.
TV works on DVD with SCART and HDMI inputs from computer.
Dish is only providing a single room - dish is mounted above lounge, twin cables come down and straight into lounge. No internet connection etc, just TV plugged into power and one of the sat cables screwed in.
The TV has Freesat and Freeview build in, I screwed one of the twin cables in (TV only has a single socket), also tried the other cable, get exactly the same result.
After auto-tuning, have a full TV guide, up to date programs, listings, HD or SD etc. Information button also shows the content of the show. Press OK to watch ANY station and TV screen goes black and ‘No service’ is displayed in a white rectangle with red writing. Same for the radio stations etc.
I reset the TV to factory settings, have retuned with either FreeSat, or ‘Other Sat’ and get same result.
I’m definitely getting ‘No service’ and not ‘No signal’
Doing some reading it seems the older Panasonics had issues with FEC (but would this only be on the ITV or cause everything to fail?
I need to double check the power is on to the LNB (advised on another site) but having done a factory reset and checked the firmware i would have thought the LNB power would have been set to ‘on’.
So - it could be the TV FreeSat tuner has given up the ghost. TV works fine on SCART and HDMI inputs. OR, previous owner had a Sky Box - and does that only work with their dish? I thought as I am getting a populated TV guide that everything is OK - saying Astra2 sat.
I understand that you can get the channel list populated but this does not mean you get a signal.