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My Panasonic TV comes up with ‘new channels found’ every time I switch on, even though I have re-tuned it? Any suggestions please?

Hi Chris,  thanks for the question.  Couple of things.  Firstly is it definitely the TV that’s saying new channels found,  and not a Panasonic DVD or HDD recorder?  There was recently a bug in the update system that made recorders request a re-tune  every time they were turned on,  but this should have passed by now.  If you think it could be a Recorder,  our advice is to ignore the request until it stops asking.  If then,  after a week or so it asks out of the blue,  accept the request.  That should solve THAT problem.

Otherwise,  you say the TV says new channels found every time you turn it on.  I trust you have selected “ok” and let it re-tune only for it to ask again next time?  If this is the case,  do you switch your TV off at the wall at night?  The reason I ask is the TV performs software updates in standby mode,  and switching it off at the wall can disturb the TV’s update schedule.

Failing that,  what sort of Aerial is the TV on,  and when it does a re-tune,  what sort of Signal quality are you getting?  Finally,  what area are you in?

Let me know if any of that helps

thanks

Mook