On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 09:05:30 UTC+1, |||new...@nezumi.demon.co.uk wrote:
> On Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 4:16:40 PM UTC+1, Brian Gaff wrote:
>
> > Is this anything to do with the way Panasonic have I think sold out to the
> > great unwashed badge engineering God, and no longer produce those excellent
> > talking tvs any more, or is that just a vicious rumour put about by Samsung.
> > Brian
> Not really - apart from their intransigence about fixing a technical defect in the original design of the TVs and PVRs made between 2009-2012 because they have probably fired all the staff that knew about the internals by now.
>
> The new badged "Panasonic" sets no longer respond to old Panasonic remote controls (or to the Panasonic setting on a Sky remote). Easy way to tell...
>
> They cut corners by not fully implementing the HD TV broadcast specification and now that some players are using the more advanced features the sets no longer work. It didn't bother me until last week when STV moved over.
>
> I'd appeal for anyone affected and still in warrantee to pursue this with some vigour ASAP since the window for making a claim is rapidly closing.
>
> Regards,
> Martin Brown
> > This is probably too late to be any use (but I have a TX37G10B or rather my
> > mum now does as a cast off). The problem is that ITV HD (England and Wales)
> > are using a newer form of Forward Error Correction that Panasonic in their
> > infinite wisdom failed to implement in their older Freesat HD decoders.
> > Until last week I was able to bodge around this by tuning to ITV (Scotland)
> > (or Ulster) as they still used the older FEC method and decoded correctly.
> > Not any more :(
> >
> > More details of Panasonics Freesat HD decoder MFU at:
> >
> > http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/panasonic-itv-hd-break-up-issues-on-panasonic-tvs-and-pvrs/
> >
> > It is important that anyone with kit including 5 year warrantee makes a
> > claim ASAP since that is the only way we might get a firmware update to fix
> > this.
> >
> > Sets and PVRs with Freesat from 2009-2012 are affected. ITV, Freesat and
> > Panasonic all blame each other. ITV are using a valid HD broadcast stream
> > but older Panasonic equipment cannot decode it and they are unwilling to
> > budge.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Martin Brown