I dread the day when some unusual combination of propagation anomalies will add up to the unintentional malware capable of instructing the set to totally destroy it's firmware.
In that case the longer one allows the set to crunch the faulty numbers the worse the situation will be-if human intervention is immediate ( changing the channel and back again ) the problem is caught before the whole television becomes a useless combination blue nightlight and radiant heater. Such errors should be detected trapped and ignored/discarded by salesworthy firmware but apparently many of the producers of these devices didn't think we would be able to figure out it was their crap responsible for our frustrations instead of our lack of expertise in the digital world.Īnd if you think that's bad I foolishly ran out and bought a digital television of a very common and well-thought-of brand name and when it's little processor/firmware system gets confused by one of these partial segments of the expected bitstream it may become impossible to tune any digital station at all until the television is reset by removing it from power and repowering it. In simpler terms I'm suggesting that interrupted partial bitstreams, when received by these devices, are becoming inadvertent viruses or malware and are forcing the poorly conceived programs to do things having nothing whatever to do with making a picture on your screen-like ( in one of the most common instances ) turning off either the sound or the picture.
#Rca analog to digital converter box code
If the stream is interrupted by some propagation anomaly it must sometimes allow a string of code characters to pass into the decoding processor or whatever they have in there and the partial sets of ones and zeroes are no longer valid display data, but rather are pernicious commands acted upon by the processor having nothing whatever to do with the functions to which these devices have been assigned.
#Rca analog to digital converter box software
I'm fairly certain the problem is some lack of sophistication in error checking and correction/recovery software native to these electronic junkpiles. This is the trigger to most of the problems these RCA abominations experience. The biggest tip in trying to work with these boxes is to try to site your antenna somewhere it almost never becomes subject to propagation anomalies. That may very well restore your box(es) to what limited and sporadic functionality they were ever capable of at best. Experimentally I found the cure on mine-you must pull the power cord out of the wall socket and then depress the standby/on key while plugging the device back in-hold the button down the whole time until you get it reconnected to the mains current. That sounds like it might be your problem. My worst example often will not come back on once turned off.
When there are difficulties one of the first things to try is to cycle the device between standby and on. If you're still struggling with these not-worthy-of-a-warranty-of-merchantability abominations this may be useful for you.
The worst example I have has a particularly annoying defect. Often when a channel becomes temporarily un-tunable due to the transient nature of the propagation these boxes will "hang" on the untunable channel for minutes before another channel number or up/down command may be entered. Nevertheless these particular boxes seem as if designed to fully-exploit the potential in DTV broadcast "technology" for creating frustrating unpleasant experiences to the utmost degree possible. Some of this is the nature of UHF propagation and digital stream decoding. None were worth the trouble to go get them and bring them home, much less the many man-hours of frustration and recordings of content when not home which were later found to contain sound/no picture, picture/no sound or continuously appearing boxes stating that the antenna must be repositioned or another blasted scan performed. Two were purchased with the vouchers and one came from a thrift store-$3 I think.
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