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Never, ever had this problem with a £20 Tesco branded Freeview Box, so clearly the problem is the TV, but what can be done?
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..a better aerial cable probably wont make any difference, the signal is digital.. fact of the matter the sony software is rubbish. i have the kdl55hx853, a £1500 TV and it cant tell me what the hell i'm watching either.
Sorry but thats absolute nonsense.
sorry, but justify your comment rather than just saying something is nonsense, or do you not have the intelligence to do that?
Digital signals dont improve just because you buy a so-called 'high quality cable'
Sony software is rubbish. It's clunky and does not perform. Other brands do it way better.
Awaiting your evidence to justify your comment that Sony's software is rubbish.
Cable - Digital/Analogue Not the issue. A better quality cable (im not talking much, but not the £1 ones, a fiver or so will do just fine) will have generally better shielding - especially if you purchase a properly constructed shielded one. The TVs tuner has build in error correcting software to filter out some of the noise, however if there is too much noise, it will "overwhelm" it.
HDMI cables can also "leak" and interfere with the freeview signal - I know from experience.
There are so many things that can go wrong with freeview signals/reception - to pick on the TV's software is...well... out of left field. If it was that "rubbish" this forum would be flooded with complaints.
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..and to clarify, i'm not referring to a digital aerial cable, i'm referring to the signal being digital, no old school analogue.
Have to report I am getting EPG gaps too on my KDL-42W829B receiver.
Sony need to liase with Digital UK and Freeview to get to the bottom of this issue PDQ, it's infuruating. The same antenna chain and cabling is being used to support a BTTVV+ box which doesn't exhibit these problems.
Can this be handed to the engineers as soon as possible, please?
Unfortunately for this one, your going to have to contact Sony directly yourself : HERE. I am assuming that they will get you to do a whole host of troubleshooting. Other than a faulty TV itself, this one really is either signal reception or interference.
If you google "No Event Information" a whole host of sites will appear with information to assist.
Also, have you looked at the information on the problem channel/s. The Pre and Post Viterbi are key information.
Some useful information is posted : HERE
Cheers
I will do, however the issue isn't with whole channel data, there are gaps within channels. I could understand if whole channels or muxes were missing data, the appearance of No Event Information scattered amidst valid data is peculiar. To my understanding this would seem to relate to difficulties within the receiver in assembling the PI correctly within the tables rather than reception of the raw data.
I'll see what Sony have to say.