TV Tuner Qosmio F10-125

I have just taken delivery of an F10. Excitedly I connected the jack at the back of the PC to the ordinary Arial and searched for the signal by auto scanning using the media wizard. No signal was detected. I tried using the RF analogue signal from my Sky digi-box that must be a good a signal as one can get. Still nothing. In both cases the co-axial cable was carrying a healthy signal as evidenced by the TV happily playing all the channels on the cable from both sources
Any one know what to do? or is this wonder Qosmio F10 a joke!!
Message was edited by: Ronaldat

Hi,
I don't have the PC in front of me ... it's my son's and presently several hundred miles away, so I'll have to do this by memory (which at my age isn't too reliable, so I apologise in advance if I mislead anyone.
>> By MCE do you mean media centre?
Yes - acronymn for Media Centre Edition (which takes far too long to type).
>> How does one use the QosmioPlayer tuner? I don't understand F2/setup??? I've tried pressing F1 then F2 but nothing happens.
With the G10 (and I don't know about the F10) you can start up Qosmio player without booting the PC (by pressing the TV button at the back of the keyboard area). Initially (i.e. without setting up the tuner) I got pretty much a blank screen. Pressing F1 brings up a window with a set of options in two rows - one of which is F2 - Setup. After pressing F2 it didn't take much effort to find an option to do an AutoScan which worked very easily and in about 2 or 3 minutes, I think.
Once this ran through I found that valid signals were distributed fairly randomly through the 1-63 possible channels - I can't remember the numbers exactly but BBC1 was at channel53, Channel 4 at 27 and so on.
You can tinker with the settings such that when you select Channel 1 on the main TV player, this actually shows Channel53 (or whatever) so you can configure it for (say) channels 1- 5 to reflect the more obvious setup.
Having got this under control (more or less), I then went back to try Media Centre - configured the TV Tuner to PAL/Secam manually and could then find regular BBC, ITV etc ... again scattered at random channel numbers across the tuner. I've no idea how to rationalise these .. and I think someone else has asked this question on the Forum.
I used a decent rooftop aerial to plug into the Toshiba ... the pictures for ITV1, Channels4 and 5 are perfect, BBC1 and 2 are poor. Not sure why this should be so since they're OK on my regular TV - maybe someone wants us to watch the adverts!
That's about as much as I know, I'm afraid.
>>Still waiting for a phone call after 3 days.
You have my sympathies ...
FrankW

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