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I'm so glad I persisted in searching the internet and found this site.

I am on Waltham transmitter and sometime yesterday early evening, I lost freeview through my Sony RDR-HXD870.

I am not sure a firmware upgrade will do anything as I am pretty sure I did mine a couple of years ago and the latest firmware is dated 2010.

Therefore, I cannot see how this could suddenly affect anything if it has been working fine for 2 years and, to be honest, I am not that keen on re-doing the firmware upgrade whilst I cannot get a picture.

Is it possible that 4G has been ramped up on Waltham or something as I have read 4G can cause problems?

"My HX995 seems to be without a signal, yet is on 83% strength, and flicks up a normal signal for perhaps a second."

Exactly the same issue as I have. It sometimes plays a second or so of image and picture and cuts out.


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The real shame about all this is if it continues, I ain't going to be able to record the 2nd Brit to win the Tour de France for posterity. Gutted!

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Sorcha. Only time will tell.

It is not an issue with the DVD recorder as far as I can tell but I am NO expert.

I have checked and mine is definitely on the current firmware version 1.70 and as been for a year or three.

It's probably best to just patiently wait for an expert on here to come up with suggestions.

As I say, I am no expert but I cannot see how tropospheric issues could affect a signal through a DVD recorder but not affect Freeview through a Digital TV.

And having read a fair bit online this morning, I am awaiting confirmation from anyone in the know as to what changes could solely affect Sony machines.

It makes no sense to me.

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Not D McPhee the Architect by any chance?

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I have found this information on this website:-

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Not sure how to apply what it states.

Advice from the pros greatly appreciated to get us Sony HXD users up and running again!

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