How Can This Be?

I have a Toshiba Regza, on which lately the picture is breaking up. It has a set-top box, which came with it. (Bought secondhand.) I had the STB connected to the satellite wall plug and the STB connected to the TV by an HDMI cable. If I unplug all cables, including the component ones to the VCR, it still get a picture/sound, in fact it seems to be better!??

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Permalink Reply by Satellite Networks Motueka on March 8, 2016 at 14:17

Your probably watching it through your aerial

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Permalink Reply by Biggles on March 8, 2016 at 14:43

What cables are still connected to the TV?

Presumably you have an antenna plugged into the antenna socket and it is receiving FreeviewHD on UHF.

What Brand and Model is the STB?

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Permalink Reply by Carol E Dempster on March 8, 2016 at 18:06

Thirdd question first: it's called ExtraTerrestrial DVB-T.

Nothing is plugged into the antenna socket on the wall.

The HDMI cable is connecting the STB and TV. The antenna cable is plugged into the STB, but not the wall socket.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Satellite Networks Motueka on March 8, 2016 at 18:17

Totally blown away the ET even lives. They were the biggest pieces of junk ever imported.

There must be a cable coming from the aerial somewhere. not necessarily the wall socket.

Maybe try running that straight to the aerial socket on your tv instead of going through the ET

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Permalink Reply by Biggles on March 8, 2016 at 18:46

OK.

The STB is a Terrestrial UHF box and not a satellite box so shouldn't be connected to a Dish but a UHF antenna. Obviously there is enough signal strength at your location to get a picture with just the short piece of co-ax plugged into the STB. I can get a picture on my Sony TV with just a piece of wire stuck in the antenna socket as I'm in a strong signal area so it's nothing unusual.

Your TV is also FreeviewHD capable so just plug the co-ax lead into the TV and the wall socket for the external antenna. You don't need the STB except for recording on your VCR in which case plug the antenna into antenna input and antenna output to TV antenna input. Then you can watch one channel on the TV while recording another on the VCR.

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Permalink Reply by Carol E Dempster on March 9, 2016 at 12:42

Thanks very much for your replies. I think I have put you wrong a little - the satellite wall socket requires a cable which screws on, yes? We have that but have the other also as the photo shows. However nothing is attached to either of these at the moment.

When I unplug the cable from antenna in, it loses the signal. If I plug it into the TV instead of the STB, it also loses signal.

Anyway, it works, whether it should or not, so guess that's all that matters!

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Permalink Reply by Satellite Networks Motueka on March 9, 2016 at 16:51

If your TV has built in Freeview. plug the aerial cable straight into the TV .Then go to the TV setting with your TV remote. Then you will have to tune in channels.

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Permalink Reply by Carol E Dempster on March 9, 2016 at 17:22

It doesn't have built-in Freeview.

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Permalink Reply by Biggles on March 9, 2016 at 19:21

According to the brochure I found online it does.

http://www.mytoshiba.co.nz/products/televisions/lcd-tv/lv800az/40lv...

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Permalink Reply by Carol E Dempster on March 9, 2016 at 21:10

It is a C3035D. The person who had it before me said the STB was necessary because when you're in the setup menu, you can't choose NZ for the country.

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Permalink Reply by Biggles on March 9, 2016 at 21:41

OK. That figures. Just googled it and it is Digital but looks like it was designed for the UK market which uses a different broadcast standard to NZ so won't work in NZ.

Just connect your STB to a UHF antenna and you will get a perfect picture.