Dave-G Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 (edited) A well off brother has gifted me a seemingly faulty Sony LDM 3210 plasma TV, its about 6 years old I think. The signal is very 'iffy' and just touching the 'coax in' feed to the Media Receiver Unit (Sony model MBD-MRX1) has it going scatty with breakdowns galore. It also only gets about 30 channels, skipping several consecutive numbers and any time I can find BBC1 it will not get ITV - and vica versa if I move the coax and auto tune again. Auto tune seems to struggle part away through its progress too. The coax works fine with an LCD TV (gifted by another brother) so I suspect a dry joint exists inside the unit but removing the top doesn't expose the inside of the coax in socket. I've tasked her indoors with getting me a top quality cable from curry's/Maplins or whatever today as a quick cheap process of elimination but anticipate the socket dry joint is going to have to be found come what may. If it goes horribly wrong would another Sony MRU with the same plugs still operate the display unit? EDIT: typo correction re: elimination. Edited August 18, 2016 by Dave-G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 (edited) It would probably make a good gaming TV! Don't believe all the rubbish about top quality cable. Edited August 18, 2016 by TIGHTCHOKE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Prawn Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 It would probably make a good gaming TV! Don't believe all the rubbish about top quality cable. This A £1 cable is as good as a £50 as proved by many different articles in tech magazines - its nothing but a money spinner isn't it the little monkeys I'd say bad connection on coax but a TV repair shop won't cost much to have a look, probably less than an expensive than a pricey cable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted August 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 (edited) Well Mrs-G has arrived with a new cable with gold plated connectors (£8) I cannot now get any interference when the coax is not being moved so the original cable was less than perfect - possibly having a break in its flimsy inner core. It still misses swathes of channel numbers and if I rotate the coax plugs and re-auto tune it sometimes finds different channels, in lieu of rather than extra channels - and program sorting seems to switch to terrestrial instead of digital. A chat with brother reveals he stored it for several months after having his bedroom decorated, only used it via a sky box and now wants a TV with HDMI connector which the Sony doesn't have, and the receiver unit makes it impractical to wall mount the display unit. Edited August 18, 2016 by Dave-G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 I think your brother has just give it to you , to save himself a trip to the tip lol lol Flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAYBURN Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 If you don't want the cost of a repair then use a free view box with scart or hdmi out put, the coax only needs to go to the free view box. or as above use as a monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 (edited) If you don't want the cost of a repair then use a free view box with scart or hdmi out put, the coax only needs to go to the free view box. or as above use as a monitor. That sounds like a plan but what a ****** to need two remotes lol. The picture quality is stunning compared to my Panasonic LCD TV so it will be worth it. Edited August 19, 2016 by Dave-G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAYBURN Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Only two lol I have five remotes ..not boasting.. I got one remote to control them all it works great, till the misses gets a hold of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted August 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 Only two lol I have five remotes ..not boasting.. I got one remote to control them all it works great, till the misses gets a hold of it. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B25Modelman Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 I think your brother has just give it to you , to save himself a trip to the tip lol lol Flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted August 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 (edited) I think you guys may be right lol. Another brother is much better at setting things up like computers and fancy tv's - moving channel/programs around etc, he's going to have a look at tit for me. The thing was made at about the time of the digital/terrestrial changeover and automatic digital tuning seems to switch from digital to terrestrial in the program sorting finalisation of auto tuning. The discontinued terrestrial side has a fuller menu in 'settings' and has manual tuning function - but darned if I can access manual tuning on the digital side. Edited August 20, 2016 by Dave-G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrowningB525 Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 I'd just get a scary feeeview box as mentioned above. You can even get some where the feeeview remote can bu used to turn the tv on and off and control volume, so you only need one remote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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