Thanks for your reply.
Yes. I should have mentioned doing the "aerial out" retune.
I had done that and it worked for about 3 days.
It is a bit better now. I did:
- A power (unplug from the mains for a while) reset;
- A "back to factory settings and lose everything" reset;
- An "aerial out" retune; and
- An aerial in, full range of services, auto retune.
Of course I was so homicidal by then, I can't recall if that was the exact order. Which of course will make it harder to repeat when I inevitably have to repeat the whole sorry exercise.
Anyhow, it worked and seems to have taken this time. I have absolutely no confidence that it will last, though.
I think I was lucky that it picked the right transmitter to latch onto, because as effing usual, you sit through a 15-minute retune and at the end it jumps straight back to the menu page without giving you a chance to set your region.
That function seems to have disappeared.
Even when it was offered, it was completely hopeless.
You'd be given a choice of UK (OK) region, and then usually the wrong transmitter and if you touched any sort of arrow button or any button at all, it would just accept and close the region window and accept that wrong (South Yorks and Lincoln) transmitter.
So then retune again and again until it happened to pick the right (East Midlands) transmitter. At 15 minutes per time, "again and again" gets boring pretty quickly. (Although 'quickly' is maybe not the right word to use, you know what I mean...)
I actively hate this TV and hugely resent the loss of £500 or so.
I know Sony couldn't give a stuff about that sum, but I regard it as a significant amount to waste on something that really should not have been that much of a challenge for them to get right.
It's not like it's the first TV they've manufactured, is it?
