Bought a new Samsung TV recently. It comes with 2 x Freeview tuners
(DVB-T2).

We use Sky, but as I already run a cable to this room when rewiring the
house a couple of years ago I thought I would put a socket for the
aerial behind the TV.

Well today we had to use it as the storm had damaged the dish on the
roof, and the sky engineer is not coming to fix it until Monday.

I plugged in the aerial cable, all the channels are there, but the
picture is in standard definition, not in HD (same all channels).

Am I missing anything? Do I need a new aerial on the roof?

JoeJoe wrote:

I plugged in the aerial cable, all the channels are there, but the
picture is in standard definition, not in HD (same all channels).

Did you watch e.g. BBC1 (on channel1) or BBC1-HD (on channel 101)?

Am I missing anything? Do I need a new aerial on the roof?

normally not, but it could be that the HD mux is out of band for your
aerial, what channels with "HD" in their name does your EPG show?

On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:53:13 +0000, JoeJoe wrote:

Bought a new Samsung TV recently. It comes with 2 x Freeview tuners
(DVB-T2).

We use Sky, but as I already run a cable to this room when rewiring the
house a couple of years ago I thought I would put a socket for the
aerial behind the TV.

Well today we had to use it as the storm had damaged the dish on the
roof, and the sky engineer is not coming to fix it until Monday.

I plugged in the aerial cable, all the channels are there, but the
picture is in standard definition, not in HD (same all channels).

Am I missing anything? Do I need a new aerial on the roof?

I'm pretty sure 'no'.

Are you sure the tuners are Freeview HD?

Cheers, T i m

On 30/01/2016 14:08, Andy Burns wrote:
JoeJoe wrote:

I plugged in the aerial cable, all the channels are there, but the
picture is in standard definition, not in HD (same all channels).

Did you watch e.g. BBC1 (on channel1) or BBC1-HD (on channel 101)?

Oops! Never used Freeview before and was unaware that the HD channels
were at 100+x...

Many thanks!

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JoeJoe wrote:
Bought a new Samsung TV recently. It comes with 2 x Freeview tuners
(DVB-T2).

As a matter of interest, since your question has been answered, why two
tuners?

This is only normally done with a PVR, so you can record one thing while
watching another.

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On 30/01/2016 15:23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
JoeJoe wrote:
Bought a new Samsung TV recently. It comes with 2 x Freeview tuners
(DVB-T2).

As a matter of interest, since your question has been answered, why two
tuners?

This is only normally done with a PVR, so you can record one thing while
watching another.


Do some of these TVs have a facility to add an external hard drive, thus
turning them into PVRs?

Plus don't some people have two programmes display at the same time.
PIP. (I sometimes get that on my PVR if I press the wrong button! )

On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:42:42 +0000, GB wrote:

Do some of these TVs have a facility to add an external hard drive, thus
turning them into PVRs?

Mine does, but is only single-tuner.

On 30/01/2016 15:23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
JoeJoe wrote:
Bought a new Samsung TV recently. It comes with 2 x Freeview tuners
(DVB-T2).

As a matter of interest, since your question has been answered, why two
tuners?


No idea to be honest...

BTW, it also has 2 x Freesat tuners.

On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:42:42 +0000, GB wrote:

On 30/01/2016 15:23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
JoeJoe wrote:
Bought a new Samsung TV recently. It comes with 2 x Freeview tuners
(DVB-T2).

As a matter of interest, since your question has been answered, why two
tuners?

This is only normally done with a PVR, so you can record one thing
while watching another.


Do some of these TVs have a facility to add an external hard drive, thus
turning them into PVRs?

I was going to say that. I did a homebrew external drive for our Samsung
TV. Works well, but it's only got one tuner so you can't watch one
programme and record another. Think I'll get a Roku box soon.

The HDD is useful for pausing a programme when someone interrupts you
(tip: pause the programme at the start so you can rewind a bit at the
first interruption) or for short term recording. For longer time shifting
I use get_iplayer.

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On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:42:42 +0000, GB wrote:

On 30/01/2016 15:23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
JoeJoe wrote:
Bought a new Samsung TV recently. It comes with 2 x Freeview tuners
(DVB-T2).

As a matter of interest, since your question has been answered, why two
tuners?

This is only normally done with a PVR, so you can record one thing
while watching another.


Do some of these TVs have a facility to add an external hard drive, thus
turning them into PVRs?

I was going to say that. I did a homebrew external drive for our Samsung
TV. Works well, but it's only got one tuner so you can't watch one
programme and record another. Think I'll get a Roku box soon.

The HDD is useful for pausing a programme when someone interrupts you
(tip: pause the programme at the start so you can rewind a bit at the
first interruption) or for short term recording. For longer time shifting
I use get_iplayer.


Yes, i hooked up and old external drive to our Samsung TV.

But we never really used it for recording a program, it's all bit
clunky and you have to have the TVon whilst recording. We did
use it a bit for pausing.

But we don't really watch broadcast TV anymore, everything is
streamed or downloaded so it's rather redundant.

But as the OP has multiple tuners then presumably the idea is to
use the TV as a PVR as well?
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