As per title. I have a Samsung S90C, and was planning to bring it with me to Austrailia.
Anybody know if it works fine on their frequencies?
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Australia uses 7 MHz bandwidth for DVB-T, and we and most of the rest of the DVB-T world use 8 MHz. So the TV will need a country selection or the ability to select the bandwidth. It is likely to have support in the hardware, as the DVB-T TV chipsets all support all the options needed, AFAIK. I think they use much the same UHF frequencies as we do, so only UHF is required. I believe there are some places in the world that do DVB-T on VHF.
Australia transmit DVB-T on VHF Band III and UHF bands.
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There’s usually a magic combination of remote commands that lets you change the region on Samsung tvs. Search for your specific model and give it a go. You can normally also get access to the country specific apps if that’s useful to you.
A factory reset should work, and then select Australia as the country.
if you think you don’t want to factory reset, then just try changing the country and then do a full rescan / tune of the channels.
If you just use it as a Screen with an HDMI input to an Apple TV/Firestick/Media player who cares what the DVB-T settings are linear tv is dead....
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nztim:
If you just use it as a Screen with an HDMI input to an Apple TV/Firestick/Media player who cares what the DVB-T settings are linear tv is dead....
op possibly has built in apps…
many do not wish to add expense to buy additional devices. There’s a lot who are comfortable with linear and have a use case for both linear and streaming.
AU linear is pretty good to be fair…
Thanks heaps everybody.
To close this out.
Just unboxed my S90C in Australia.
Did a full reset. Only country options are New Zealand and Samoa? (a smaller pacific island anyway).
Changing the "Smart hub" location was trivial. When the smart hub terms and conditions come up: Mute, vol up, channel up, mute. Long list of countries is provided.
Oddly it let me pick my Aust post code, and pick from a list of correct subregions.
Auto tune did not find any terrestrial channels (but the many streaming channels worked fine).
After a lot of stress, was able to manually tune the channels in my area (look up channel frequency list for appropriate tower online, go to manual turning (under export in broadcast I think). Spend 5 mins scrolling up to the right frequency, set the bandwidth to 7 MHZ, and repeat 6 times.
Frustrating that I couldn't select Austrailia at the start, but a good outcome.
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