TV problem - sound distortion?

Question

When watching tv via the freeview box the sound occasionally becomes distorted by a buzzing noise.

When the freeview box is unplugged the put back in again the problem goes but returns again after about three minutes.

Its a decent freeview box and it works on the other tv's in the house, so im thinking it might be the actual tv, or a scart problem?

But im not that advanced in electronics, so could antone offer their views or suggestions??

Answer 1

It does sound like a poor earth connection and may be associated with the scart lead plug or even the socket in the t.v. Try reversing the scart lead if scart to scart. I have had problems with gold plated scart leads before also and fitting a standard one helped.

Answer 2

Is the buzzing from the TV speakers or from the TV or the Freeview box?

Is it a plasma or lcd tv ?

Answer 3

This happened to me!

Check that the scart plug is firmly connected to the freeview box and tv and make sure it remains that way, sometimes if the scart plug is loose or coming out abit it makes a fuzzing or humming noise.

Just check all your connections, its dead easy, so try that!

Hope that works