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Arfa Daily

Jan 1, 1970
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First. Does anyone know for sure the correct type number for the field
output chip in an
Alba TVD 3406/A 14" portable with built in DVD player ? It's a 7 pin TO220
package, so I'm guessing that it's a TA or TDA something. Unfortunately, the
side is blown off it, and it doesn't appear to be laying anywhere in the
set.

Second. Has anyone been having trouble with programmes from Sky Living TV
recorded on a Sky + box ? Only seems to have been happening over the last
few days, and only on Living TV channel. There is no problem with the live
broadcast, only when it has been recorded. Every couple of minutes, there
will be a brief burst of pixellation, followed by an equally brief freeze
and jump of between almost nothing and a few seconds of recording. This is
followed a couple of seconds later by an again brief interuption in the
sound. It's really annoying to watch. Both LNB inputs are showing good
signal strength of around 60%, and both show locked transport streams with a
quality factor of around 80%. Both these figures are absolutely normal.

I have heard whisperings that there are some recording problems as a result
of a recent software upgrade, which is of course automatically downloaded by
the box, but if it is down to this, I wonder if anyone has an explanation as
to why just one channel should seem to be affected ?

Arfa
 
A travel tv program on the PBS channel was acting similar to that a
month or so ago.I haven't tuned into that program on the PBS channel
since then.At first, I thought it was something wrong with my Sony Wega
Trinitron CRT 27 inch flat screen tv set.
cuhulin
 
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Arfa Daily

Jan 1, 1970
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A travel tv program on the PBS channel was acting similar to that a
month or so ago.I haven't tuned into that program on the PBS channel
since then.At first, I thought it was something wrong with my Sony Wega
Trinitron CRT 27 inch flat screen tv set.
cuhulin

Trouble is, with everything being locked into software these days, you just
never know with these obscure problems. Sky do automatic overnight
'upgrades' (!) to the box's software to both fix problems and add new or
revised features. Sometimes, I guess that a fix sorts out 20 models and
screws up two others. Unless you keep an eye on the box software rev number,
you don't know that a change has occured. Well, be interesting to see if it
clears up on its own. If there is some genuine fault like the PSU or the HDD
getting flaky, then I guess I'll know soon enough ... :)

Arfa
 
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bz

Jan 1, 1970
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First. Does anyone know for sure the correct type number for the field
output chip in an
Alba TVD 3406/A 14" portable with built in DVD player ? It's a 7 pin
TO220 package, so I'm guessing that it's a TA or TDA something.
Unfortunately, the side is blown off it, and it doesn't appear to be
laying anywhere in the set.

Second. Has anyone been having trouble with programmes from Sky Living
TV recorded on a Sky + box ? Only seems to have been happening over the
last few days, and only on Living TV channel. There is no problem with
the live broadcast, only when it has been recorded. Every couple of
minutes, there will be a brief burst of pixellation, followed by an
equally brief freeze and jump of between almost nothing and a few
seconds of recording. This is followed a couple of seconds later by an
again brief interuption in the sound. It's really annoying to watch.
Both LNB inputs are showing good signal strength of around 60%, and both
show locked transport streams with a quality factor of around 80%. Both
these figures are absolutely normal.

I have heard whisperings that there are some recording problems as a
result of a recent software upgrade, which is of course automatically
downloaded by the box, but if it is down to this, I wonder if anyone has
an explanation as to why just one channel should seem to be affected ?

Arfa

Could they be playing some kind of 'copyright protected' DVD and
broadcasting it over that channel?












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bz 73 de N5BZ k

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

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Arfa Daily

Jan 1, 1970
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bz said:
Could they be playing some kind of 'copyright protected' DVD and
broadcasting it over that channel?

It was a regular programme. " So You Think You Can Dance", actually.
Broadcast last night. Recorded on the Sky box's HDD, and watched a couple of
hours later.

Arfa (73 also ...)
 
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b

Jan 1, 1970
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First. Does anyone know for sure the correct type number for the field
output chip in an
Alba TVD 3406/A 14" portable with built in DVD player ? It's a 7 pin TO220
package, so I'm guessing that it's a TA or TDA something. Unfortunately, the
side is blown off it, and it doesn't appear to be laying anywhere in the
set.

will need the chassis reference, (vestel 11Akxx? PT92? Beko?... )
since alba is just the badge put on the front....
 
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Arfa Daily

Jan 1, 1970
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b said:
will need the chassis reference, (vestel 11Akxx? PT92? Beko?... )
since alba is just the badge put on the front....

Agreed. A friend of mine who does rather more TV repairs than I do, as I
limit that work strictly to 'mates', suggested that there would be a chassis
reference number, probably starting with a "K" somwhere on it, but I'm
buggered if I can see anything other than the back cover model number. There
appears to be no stickers or anything on the PCB that I can see. Would a
photo help you if you are familiar with this tat ? Or is there somewhere
else I should be looking for any other identifying marks ? Thanks for taking
the time.

Arfa
 
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