Hi all,
got an old Sony Freeview set-top box. What is the code for accessing the
re-tune menu? tried 0000, 1111 etc. [after 3 goes it locks]
TIA

On Thursday, January 26th, 2012, at 16:33:58h +0000, House Trained asked:

got an old Sony Freeview set-top box.

A SONY VTX D800-U?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-VTX-D800U-Freeview-Digital-Set/dp/B0000TEV88

What is the code for accessing the re-tune menu? tried 0000, 1111 etc.

If the password code is not 0000 by default, it is usually 1234.

Did you try 1234?

Remember if you not longer need your digital converter box for the TV
because you now have an integrated Freeview TV, you can use your
digital coverter box connected up to amplified loudspeakers as a
radio for better quality than DAB.

housetrained wrote...

Hi all,
got an old Sony Freeview set-top box. What is the code for accessing the
re-tune menu? tried 0000, 1111 etc. [after 3 goes it locks]

The code is whatever the previous owner set the Parental Control PIN to
be.

If it is a VTX-D800U, reset procedures are he

http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/vtx/index.html

--
Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

J G Miller wrote:
On Thursday, January 26th, 2012, at 16:33:58h +0000, House Trained asked:

got an old Sony Freeview set-top box.

A SONY VTX D800-U?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-VTX-D800U-Freeview-Digital-Set/dp/B0000TEV88

What is the code for accessing the re-tune menu? tried 0000, 1111 etc.

If the password code is not 0000 by default, it is usually 1234.

The default for this box is 0000

http://www.remote-controls-shop.co.uk/freeview/user-manual-pdf.aspx?brand=Sony&model=VTX-D800U&display=file.pdf

--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

www.paras.org.uk

On Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 19:45:19h +0000, Mark Carver wrote:

The default for this box is 0000

Thanks for confirming the default.

It would still be worth House Trained trying 1234
since some people when setting up an alternative
just go for the "easiest" to remember when all
digits are different.

Other than that, she/he will have to do the
factory reset.

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Thursday, January 26th, 2012, at 16:33:58h +0000, House Trained asked:

got an old Sony Freeview set-top box.

A SONY VTX D800-U?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-VTX-D800U-Freeview-Digital-Set/dp/B0000TEV88

What is the code for accessing the re-tune menu? tried 0000, 1111 etc.

If the password code is not 0000 by default, it is usually 1234.

Did you try 1234?

Remember if you not longer need your digital converter box for the TV
because you now have an integrated Freeview TV, you can use your
digital coverter box connected up to amplified loudspeakers as a
radio for better quality than DAB.

Only in the daytime in Scotland - we have no evening DTT radio.

"housetrained" wrote in message ...

Hi all,
got an old Sony Freeview set-top box. What is the code for accessing the
re-tune menu? tried 0000, 1111 etc. [after 3 goes it locks]
TIA



Thanks to everyone - we shall try the factory re-set later on. Also thanks
for the PDF manual.
housetrained

In article ,
J G Miller wrote:
It would still be worth House Trained trying 1234
since some people when setting up an alternative
just go for the "easiest" to remember when all
digits are different.

Don't most go for the last four digits of their phone number?

--
*Plagiarism saves time *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
J G Miller wrote:
It would still be worth House Trained trying 1234
since some people when setting up an alternative
just go for the "easiest" to remember when all
digits are different.

Don't most go for the last four digits of their phone number?

I've known people use the day and month of their birthday, but think
they've used the month and year, or think they used their wife's
birthday. Had one lady use the alarm code but subsequently that was
changed and she couldn't remember the old one. One old geezer used the
first four digits of his WWII army number. When I said "What's the
code?" he snapped to attention and bellowed it. One lady used the year
of her divorce, another the year she was born, another the year she
bought the house. But most people, of course, use 0000.

After he'd spend a futile ten minutes trying various codes one guy gave
up and said, 'What's the answer then, Bill?' I walked to the van and
came back with a twenty quid DTT receiver.

Bill

On Friday, January 27th, 2012, at 10:03:34h +0000,
Dave Plowman asked:

Don't most go for the last four digits of their phone number?

If they realize that 1234 is too obvious, then yes that is usually
the next choice.

But if the purpose is as a parental lock, they will have to come
up with something rather more obscure.