HOW TO connect an old Techwood television to a box
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My Techwood television was working very well with my FREE ADSL box, I switched to a FREE PopUp box in anticipation of fiber.
Since then, I no longer have TV. Connected via HDMI, nothing displays except: "the channels are not set..."
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Hello,
The TV has nothing to do with it as long as it has an HDMI input (and the source is set to that input, not on the TV): a Box does not search for channels.
I am not familiar with the Free Box world, bad connections, a new Box delivered while waiting for the fiber connection that may not be ADSL compatible, absence of the appropriate TV decoder...?
Hello everyone,
I was on ADSL with Free (Revolution) and they came to install fiber for me.
Nothing has changed, same box and I have all Free and TNT channels.
No need for Free box Pop.
I have the impression that our friend does not have TV channels on the internet network (TV subscription with Free) but only TNT.
If so, you need to do an auto-scan for TNT by connecting the coaxial cable from the antenna to the Pop and then the coax output to the TV.
Best regards!
Good evening,
thank you for your feedback, but I went to a neighbor's house and used an old Antarion television from 2011, which also has only one HDMI port, and the problem with his FREE PopUp box (already connected to fiber) was the same: "the channels are not set," which means that the TV is not recognized by the box. I went to see another neighbor, and connecting this television to his Bouygues box, the problem was the same.
Also, I have another television, perhaps even older, from the GRANDIN brand, with a single HDMI port; as soon as I connected the HDMI cable, the picture appeared, and I have all the channels!
All three of my TVs were correctly set to the HDMI source.
This seems completely impossible to me.
The HDMI port is passive and displays on the TV whatever is transmitted through it unless it is, which is not the norm, an HDMI port that only outputs to display the TV on another device and not inputs.
We might consider that there is no display because the TV screen lacks the necessary codecs for that display, but there wouldn't be any channel scanning: unlike what happens with a digital terrestrial television tuner, we do not need to search for them; they are correctly programmed and in order as soon as the TV decoder is connected to the Box and to the TV, which is demonstrated by the Grandin experience.
A TV that has no channels does not have them because it fails to find them from the digital terrestrial television tuner or, if the reception goes through a Box, because the connection between the TV decoder of the Box and that Box or the Internet connection is not correct.