Humph
I normally think of myself as pretty intelligent, but every so often I do something so hugely stupid that I deserve some sort of medal. My TV can only work if connected to either the DVD player or the aerial (I have no idea why - it should, but that's the way it has always been). Last week, when I re-connected it to the aerial after a marathon of Danish crime stuff, it didn't work. Examination of the very old indoor aerial showed that the insulation had worn through. OK, it was very old, so I threw it away. Much cursing. The new back-up aerial didn't work either, so I threw that away. Today I finally went out and bought a rather cute new little aerial shaped like a big silver leaf. It didn't work either. Much more cursing. I re-packed it in the box to be taken back to the shop, then had another look at the plugs. I had the set-top box (into which the aerial plugs) plugged into the DVD player and not the telly. I am an idiot. More cursing and thrashing around was followed by re-plugging. It now works perfectly. There was of course nothing on telly worth watching. Back to the DVDs. On the plus side, my Danish is getting pretty fluent.