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MAIN AND SUB SATELLITE BUILT-IN TUNERS IN SONY BRAVIA TV

iany59 — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 17:43:09 GMT

Recently I bought SONY BRAVIA KD-65XF8796. It’s got 2 satellite tuners (main and sub). When connected both main and sub sat tuners to 2 sat dishes separately by coaxial cables set for tuning / searching the sat programmes, only main sat tuner was detected. There was no sub tuner detection even if I swapped the coaxial cables.

Is the sub sat tuner inactive or some other way to make it ‘’alive ‘’.

What’s the sub sat tuner for then ?

Re: MAIN AND SUB SATELLITE BUILT-IN TUNERS IN SONY BRAVIA TV

Sean_Mc — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 11:52:47 GMT

Hi Ian,

Welcome to the Sony Community.

I'm looking into this and will update this thread as soon as I have an answer for you.

Best wishes,

Sean Mc

Re: MAIN AND SUB SATELLITE BUILT-IN TUNERS IN SONY BRAVIA TV

Vanilla_ — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 11:34:56 GMT

Hi iany59,

You're right. I can see that your TV has two satellite tuners. But I don't think that the sub port is designed for receiving satellite channels. I believe you can only use it if you want to use the recording feature as well.

Have you tried to group your satellite connections using a DiSEqC switch and connect them all to the (Main) socket?

Vanilla_