Samsung Cable Tuner PS101A

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Has anyone got their box to work ok on cable, my box has a Samsung cable tuner PS101A and the reception is cr*p, on another forum a poster says it is well known that these tuners are rubbish and the h2 has a better samsung tuner, anyone else heard this.
 
Never heard that have put a few of these in the H1 series and even with 2-3 other VM devices attached to the main line via splitters the H1 has always managed to acquire the channels very easily.

A little more insight into your current setup would give us an idea of any potential problems
 
It's all dependent on the signal strength you have coming in, if your on a low tap in the cab like most broadband only customers will be then the signal can be too low for the tuner to get a reliable lock.

This is not the tuners fault its a lack of signal, you can use a booster to overcome this like the good old yellow brick.

You can also run into problems if your signal is too high and you may need droppers to bring it into a range the tuner will work with, if your current VM equipment has high value droppers on it then this could indicate why the tuner is struggling.
 
It's all dependent on the signal strength you have coming in, if your on a low tap in the cab like most broadband only customers will be then the signal can be too low for the tuner to get a reliable lock.

This is not the tuners fault its a lack of signal, you can use a booster to overcome this like the good old yellow brick.

You can also run into problems if your signal is too high and you may need droppers to bring it into a range the tuner will work with, if your current VM equipment has high value droppers on it then this could indicate why the tuner is struggling.
I have bb 100 meg and 2 subscribed boxes the modem shows snr of 39dB and the box shows 35dB on the tech screen these have worked flawlessly for many years, I have disconnected all equipment from the cable and connected direct to the input, I have various attenuators up to a total of 24 db, I have tried all combinations of these to no avail, I have taken the box to my son's house to try it on his cable with the same results, I have tried open vix and open atv all with the same results, the cable is scanned resulting in 603 channels found, these channels all are breaking up both sound and vision aid are unwatchable, I have only tried the fta as I have no line as yet.I am not a novice but I maybe doing something wrong but I don't think so.
 
I have bb 100 meg and 2 subscribed boxes the modem shows snr of 39dB and the box shows 35dB on the tech screen these have worked flawlessly for many years, I have disconnected all equipment from the cable and connected direct to the input, I have various attenuators up to a total of 24 db, I have tried all combinations of these to no avail, I have taken the box to my son's house to try it on his cable with the same results, I have tried open vix and open atv all with the same results, the cable is scanned resulting in 603 channels found, these channels all are breaking up both sound and vision aid are unwatchable, I have only tried the fta as I have no line as yet.I am not a novice but I maybe doing something wrong but I don't think so.

Unlucky then because mine and many other users boxes are fine. I still dont think your is faulty though.

Im not 100% sure on this it a long time since i messed with mine, under customise expert menu most image have a setting to change signal strength from percentage to db. Apply that and reboot. Now this is the bit i dont remember if the tuner is capable of giving a db signal strength reading. If it is capable what is the reading your getting ?
 
Unlucky then because mine and many other users boxes are fine. I still dont think your is faulty though.

Im not 100% sure on this it a long time since i messed with mine, under customise expert menu most image have a setting to change signal strength from percentage to db. Apply that and reboot. Now this is the bit i dont remember if the tuner is capable of giving a db signal strength reading. If it is capable what is the reading your getting ?
Thanks for you interest Ferret the only reading that this image or any image I have used shows a snr of 98% but I believe all these boxes display this reading a problem with the images I have been told, I am at my wits end now with this I hope the box is not faulty but I do not know what else to try, I cannot find any other posts anywhere with this problem but someone said there is a known problem with weak tuners in the h1 and that is why the h2 was introduced with a different samsung tuner and the h1 is now being sold off cheaply to clear stock.
 
Thanks for you interest Ferret the only reading that this image or any image I have used shows a snr of 98% but I believe all these boxes display this reading a problem with the images I have been told, I am at my wits end now with this I hope the box is not faulty but I do not know what else to try, I cannot find any other posts anywhere with this problem but someone said there is a known problem with weak tuners in the h1 and that is why the h2 was introduced with a different samsung tuner and the h1 is now being sold off cheaply to clear stock.

It needs to be a db reading as i described above to mean anything.If your image or maybe the tuner can not display this then i can not even guess what your problem is.

It could show a snr 98% at 35db which is too low trust me ive experience of this. The snr range is less sensitive than the db range if the tuner can display it that is , we will then have a better understanding of your problem.

Im not in front of mine to check if you can display a db reading so maybe theses post are totally irrelevant.
 
Thanks again Ferret there does not seem to be any way to enable a db reading in this tuner will spen some time looking for a way but I do not hold out much hope.
 
It's all dependent on the signal strength you have coming in, if your on a low tap in the cab like most broadband only customers will be then the signal can be too low for the tuner to get a reliable lock.

This is not the tuners fault its a lack of signal, you can use a booster to overcome this like the good old yellow brick.

You can also run into problems if your signal is too high and you may need droppers to bring it into a range the tuner will work with, if your current VM equipment has high value droppers on it then this could indicate why the tuner is struggling.
Ferret what is the good old yellow brick,desperate now.
 
Ferret what is the good old yellow brick,desperate now.

Its a signal amplifier, google yellow brick amplifier and youll find stockist. It not forced to be a low signal issue though so no guarantees it will fix your issue.

You never really said what your symptoms are just the tuner was crap.
 
Its a signal amplifier, google yellow brick amplifier and youll find stockist. It not forced to be a low signal issue though so no guarantees it will fix your issue.

You never really said what your symptoms are just the tuner was crap.
The picture and sound are breaking up there are lines running across the video and it pixalates the sound also is breaking up just like a weak signal I suppoose, I do not think the signal is too strong I have various attenuators up to a total of 30 db and I have tried them all individually and colectively, I know you do not think the tuner is to blame but I have tried everything I can think of and I do think the tuner is faulty, it is a samsung PS101A. Maybe the box is a clone but I do not know how to tell..
 
The picture and sound are breaking up there are lines running across the video and it pixalates the sound also is breaking up just like a weak signal I suppoose, I do not think the signal is too strong I have various attenuators up to a total of 30 db and I have tried them all individually and colectively, I know you do not think the tuner is to blame but I have tried everything I can think of and I do think the tuner is faulty, it is a samsung PS101A. Maybe the box is a clone but I do not know how to tell..

Why not remove all the other kit off the incoming feed then run a short direct feed to the box if that stabalizes it then with all the other kit on id say you need a booster.
 
Why not remove all the other kit off the incoming feed then run a short direct feed to the box if that stabalizes it then with all the other kit on id say you need a booster.

I have already done this Ferret run a 1 mtr cable direct to the incoming cable all other equipment disconnected the breaking up remains the same, I do not think it is anything to do with the wiring of the cable to the zgemma I have checked it so many times, I have been to my son's house and connected to his feed with a small length of cable problem just the same, this could be the incoming signal level at both houses, my son has more connected than me this was disconnected before connecting my box, this problem is either the box tuner or I am inputing the wrong info. ie net id freq. and sybol rate although on these boxes you only need to put in the net id and area in ABM
 
Buy another box from fleabay when it arrives do a full back up of it , then test it to see if it works , if it does good , just swap the insides over and flash the back up you saved and send the box back and tell seller its faulty

Mick
 
Well after over a week trying and trying to get this thing working I did another search and came across another sufferer with the same problem, he had tested all the channels that his had scanned and he said only bbc1 hd and itv1 hd gave a good picture and all the rest where unwatchable, so I tried these 2 channels and guess what they both gave a good picture on mine with all the rest unwatchable. What price these tuners,I am not the only victim.
 
I know that this is an old thread but I dug out my faulty zgemma h1 that has or so I thought a faulty cable tuner, all the channels are breaking up. I loaded an image on it that is based on openatv 5.3 it is is ipab and all the cable channels work fine, if I put the image that I use on my new box vix4e2 2.0 build 003-blue the channels are breaking up again.
I tried various other images at the time I bought the original box all did not work with the box and I bought another and that was ok. So now I have a box that works ok with the ipab image but not with other images, I would just like to know why.
 
I know that this is an old thread but I dug out my faulty zgemma h1 that has or so I thought a faulty cable tuner, all the channels are breaking up. I loaded an image on it that is based on openatv 5.3 it is is ipab and all the cable channels work fine, if I put the image that I use on my new box vix4e2 2.0 build 003-blue the channels are breaking up again.
I tried various other images at the time I bought the original box all did not work with the box and I bought another and that was ok. So now I have a box that works ok with the ipab image but not with other images, I would just like to know why.

Check the date of the drivers in the 5.3 image compared to the vix4e2 image, this will most likely be the culprit
 
Thanks digi247 I did suspect something like this I will check when I find out how.
 
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