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I have a tv with integral freeview box and this morning, I think due to the digital switchover, tv advised no signal being recieved on digital channels. I can still watch tv, just 5 channels, using terrestrial tv but do I need to change some setting on the tv to watch digitally through the freeview box?
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My 11 year old son came in this morning


(it's half-term btw)


Him "Ermm...TV's not working, says no signal"


Me "Oh good, no more TV..Hurray"


Him "Oh jeez, get a grip"


10 minutes later I come down to make a cup of coffee and stick my head round the sitting room door


Me "Oh, so it does work"


Him "I went on-line and followed the Freeview instructions"


Me "Really...WOW"


Him "Yeah really WOW, as in WOW that's easy"



I walked off thinking "Thank God for 11 year olds"



Netts:-$

I didn't get anything dropped through the door but I did take a look at a friend's leaflet. Apparantly, if I've understood the leaflet correctly, some areas are expected to get a poorer signal after the switchover and the recommendation is to go Sky / cable etc - bit rubbish for anyone unable to afford a monthly subscription.

The Minkey Wrote:

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> I didn't get anything dropped through the door but

> I did take a look at a friend's leaflet.

> Apparantly, if I've understood the leaflet

> correctly, some areas are expected to get a poorer

> signal after the switchover and the recommendation

> is to go Sky / cable etc - bit rubbish for anyone

> unable to afford a monthly subscription.


Was that recommendation in the leaflet that says 'printed by Sky' in incredibly small letters at the bottom?


Seriously though, we had a Sky leaflet sent through the post and if you only read the front page you'd think you have to have Sky to get digital TV. I worry how many elderly and vulnerable people will sign up to a subscription service when they don't need to.

Ohhh dear


I can now get QVC and Ideal World. I have Bid TV and Dave Ja Vue


Do you know what Zhuzh is ?


No, well you do now


(3 for 2 on Ideal fekkin World)


AND THIS IS PROGRESS


*looks for Buy-a-hand-grenade-Now channel*


God help us all


Netts:-S


(I'm now available in a lighter shade of bronze, of course)

You can trust the Murdochs to try to exploit anything and anyone they can to their advantage -which one of them is running SKY now?


As an aside, I've been told that other than HD most digital pictures will be inferior to good analogue. I must admit, I put on my new HD TV expecting a revelation and could see only a small difference. I'm already getting loads of dropout, picture freezing/ breaking up, so no better than analogue and possibly worse.


Trying to remember the point of the switchover- oh yes, room for many more channels offering more choice..........?


Has it all been a big money spinning con?

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> Ohhh dear

>

> I can now get QVC and Ideal World. I have Bid TV

> and Dave Ja Vue

>

> Do you know what Zhuzh is ?

>

> No, well you do now

>

> (3 for 2 on Ideal fekkin World)

>

> AND THIS IS PROGRESS

>

> *looks for Buy-a-hand-grenade-Now channel*

>

> God help us all

>

> Netts:-S

>

> (I'm now available in a lighter shade of bronze,

> of course)


QVC, Ideal World, Dave Ja Vue, Bid TV have all been available on Freeview for years. Pick and the Food Channel are quite new as well.

Senor Chevalier Wrote:

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> We appear to have lost Film4 on retuning. Anyone

> else had this issue? Presumably there is a way to

> manually restore it but TVs these days are all a

> bit to auto tune clever for that.... Thoughts?


I didn't lose it - it's no. 15 on mine so why don't you retune from scratch and see what happens.

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