Samsung LCD TV's weak/poor freeview

Conanius · 3 Jan 2010 at 12:03

Hi All,

Recently moved to a new place (as you will have seen with my other thread about what av stuff to get !) and I am having a bit of a nightmare with the tv signal.

I bought 2 boosters which seem to be working ok, but i've been told I can access a menu that shows me the signal strenght the tv's are recieving. Also apparently its known that the freeview recievers in the samsung tv's aren't very good. (something to do with energy saving!?)

I did a fair amount of searching round, and all I could find was 'turn the tv off, press mute, then 1, 8 , 2 and power in that sequence' however they dont seem to be responding to that.

For the main TV in the lounge I'll have a BT vision+ box soon, so i'll be ok there, however for the bedroom can anyone either recommend a fix to this issue, or a cheap ish freeview box that will resolve the issue?

dmsims · 3 Jan 2010 at 17:23

Which models do you have ?

Conanius · 3 Jan 2010 at 19:35

Le37r88bd and le19r88bd

Dup · 4 Jan 2010 at 10:42

On my LE32R7**** (I forget) there's a D.Menu button. This is the menu for the digial and in there is a signal strength option.

I have frequent problems with "no data" on my freeview guide despite 80+ signal strength.

Ev0 · 4 Jan 2010 at 12:51

My folks bought some naff brand tv the other week (and have subsequently taken it back) as freeview reception was poor.

They were only picking up half the channels whereas older tvs with freeview tuners were picking up everything.

The bloke in the shop said, and no idea if it's a load of balls or not, that manufacturers now were putting weaker tuners in now that the digital switchover has gone ahead.

Didn't really buy that myself and told them to try a proper make of TV

Django x2 · 4 Jan 2010 at 13:27

my old LE32R88bdx picked up over 100 freeview channels including all the radio / tv stuff the quality, once set up per AV forums was highly watchable, even better from distance.

ZG002 · 4 Jan 2010 at 15:06

My Freeview has never worked on my Samsung LCD. I didn't actually have a aerial to test the set when I got it. Bought it for ps3 though so didn't think anything about it. Then when I moved I went to plug in aerial no signal, looked it up and it was a known fault. Doh. I just got a freeview box then finally play tv.