I had an old sagem freeview box and philips and sagem have worked together in the past. The old box could store something like 50 channels and after more channels became available there was a software update that increased its ability to something like 60 channels, obviously not enough.
Philips can/could claim that the signal change in March, simply by adding extra channels, has made the tv tuner incapable of tuning into all the channels.
I mentioned previously that there is a software update from 2008 for the old amberlight tv and if it were mine this would be the first thing I'd update as it may solve the problem.
My freeview box also finds around 123 channels, including radio, although I only have 42 SD, didn't realise I'd cleared out so much rubbish.
If the software update doesn't help and you can't manually tune and it's too tricky to plug and unplug the aerial whilst it's tuning to miss out certain frequencies, then it looks like a new tv or external freeview box is needed.
I think the mpeg2/4 is a bit of a red herring here. When freeview first came out there were only a dozen or so tv channels. Being able to store 40 was more than enough. What would be useful to know is the original specification for the tv and if it were 40 channels then that's it regardless of mpeg2 or mpeg4 (which it can't receive). If it were 80 or 100+ then the tv is faulty and a cheap freeview box is likely to be less expensive than a repair.
What might help is the software update on the philips website from 2008
| Thu 24 Oct 2013 13:46:26
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