Telly on the blink

[Armchair Expert]

TV is about 10 years old, it start blinking after about 20 minutes and it would get worse and worse. It happened across all devices, free view, virgin, amazon. Bought a new TV today, went to get a LG but were out of stock, bought a cheapo Chinese one, works great on free view via the antenna but continues to blink on virgin via the box

I guess something wrong with the virgin box but why would the old TV malfunction while watching the other platforms

[anonymoususer]

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[ZesPak]

Is the Virgin box a purchase or a rental? (sorry, don't know about virgin's policy)
If it's a rental, just request a replacement?

Can't harm as there's usually a new version out every now and then that's a bit better than the one you have.

[loudlashadjuster]

Start with the cheapest component; the HDMI cable. Surely you have one in another room you can swap with to test?

[anonymoususer]

ZesPak said:

Is the Virgin box a purchase or a rental? (sorry, don't know about virgin's policy)
If it's a rental, just request a replacement?

Can't harm as there's usually a new version out every now and then that's a bit better than the one you have.

Virgin boxes are rented.
There is a later version but chances are on a fault issue they will replace same for same.
I'm assuming the OP has the V6 box. If he has an earlier Samsung then there is a strong likelihood almost a dead cert he will get a V6 box instead
On some faults they will simply send a replacement out which can be delivered (they favour it) to a local 8 till late type convenience place. On some faults they send an engineer.

As the poster above says there is every likelihood of it being the HDMI cable

[eein]

It's usually all the small things. Have you tried channel 182?

[Gluggy]

If by "blink on" you mean power on and off it may be down to a difference in implementation of the HDMI standard that allows connected devices to power down the TV.

I'd guess the Virgin box or a cable fault is / was sending a power down signal / command to the old TV which responded to it regardless of input but the newer one is clever enough to ignore it unless that device is the active signal - would prevent something like a games console going into standby interrupting a live broadcast for example.