Panasonic Viera TV issues

[dasherdiablo1]

Last week I took delivery of a Panasonic Viera TX-L37DT30 TV; there are a huge number of connection ports on the TV but I am having difficulties with some of them. The HDMI's are all ok but the USB's will not recognise any media I plug in i.e. memory stick and iPhone. I also cannot get it to connect to the internet.

I have tried connecting a LAN cable from the TV to the Broadband filter and from the TV my SkyBroadband box. It will not recognise a connection. What I have noticed is that when I plug the TV into the filter I lose my phone line connection; has anyone else experienced this?

I am interested to know if anyone has managed to connect to the internet with a wired connection or is a dongle required for the wifi? If I cannot get the cable connection working I am not prepared to pay additional money to 'upgrade' to the wifi as I believe it is a bit of a con if a bit of kit is designed to get you to spend more money to get the functions it is advertising as available.

Can anyone help??

[Stu R]

Wired connection works fine on all of my Pannys, but they're all TXPs.

Have you tried updating the firmware? Mine jumped straight on the net when cabled into the back of my Apple router.

Is the iPhone not even charging when USB'd in? Unless the menu has some sort of function to enable / disable them, I'd guess at something being wrong.

[dasherdiablo1]

The iPhone is charging but the TV does not recognise any media being connected.

Just to clarify; you connected it directly to your wifi broadband box?

Thanks,

[tim2100]

You can't plug the TV into the phone socket / broadband filter.

It needs to be plugged into your Router.

This can either be with a wireless dongle (extra cost), or a standard network cable to the router, or (as I have) with Homeplugs.

[Stu R]

dasherdiablo1 said:

The iPhone is charging but the TV does not recognise any media being connected.

Just to clarify; you connected it directly to your wifi broadband box?

Thanks,

As said it needs to go through your router / modem. Mine are all connected via powerline adapters.

It doesn't read the iPhone like it's a storage device, so playing media from it etc is out (AFAIK anyway).

[Road2Ruin]

As mentioned tv needs to be plugged into router. I use powerline too and works fine. memory sticks I believe have to be fat32 and then only certain files can be viewed, jpeg, mpeg, avi and some others.

[dasherdiablo1]

Turned out that other ports were't working either so I have returned the TV. Will stick with my old Samsung as have had none such issues!

[natben]

Sounds like you don't understand the TV!!!