Digital Switchover

[Ladygooner]

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?

[Loz]

There's been ads everywhere for this.

You need to rescan for your channels - check your TV manual for how to do this. And you'll need to do it again on the 18th April.

[silverfox]

Try going to Menu on your remote and then selecting channel list. This will retune your stations for you.

You will need to do this a second time after April 18

[red devil]

I lost the BBC channels, but they came back after retuning TV.

On the 18th I think the ITV channels will disappear, so TV will need to be retuned again.

[Ladygooner]

Unfortunately bought 2nd hand and no manual! Thanks for the advise will retune this evening. No problems with my main TV - although that is connected to Sky.

[Loz]

Search online with your model number - there are loads of manuals on the net.

[the-e-dealer]

Yeah they changed frequencies at 11pm last night and I missed the end of what I was watching. gits!

There are adverts on TV Radio, in newspapers , on-line and leaflet through the door. How can anyone miss it?

[maxxi]

I was up all night retuning my laptop to receive the new digital EDF - blimey! Coloured pages, poster photo i/ds, and I'm loving the brand new "This post was heavily wiki'd" tags. Nice work admin.

[Jah Lush]

I have a freeview box but no remote control. Would another remote be compatible to re-tune?

[the-e-dealer]

Doubt it. You might be able to reset it to Factory defaults but you would need the manual to find out if you can do that.

[Annette Curtain]

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:-$

[uncleglen]

My itv appeared to where bbc2 was yesterday without any intervention from me. My freeview box is registering only a 24% signal strength so a trip to the loft or roof is on the cards i suppose...

[Ladygooner]

Thanks all - retuning completed even without a manual!

[maxxi]

My s.t.b. kept asking me to retune even when I had done so - switched the little blighter off for 10 minutes so it could think about what it had done to reboot - sorted.

[the-e-dealer]

I would wait until the 18th April before going to the loft. New Signals will be at max strength then.

[The Minkey]

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.

[AbDabs]

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.

[Annette Curtain]

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)

[first mate]

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?

[Gidget]

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]

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?

[Gidget]

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.

[Senor Chevalier]

It was lurking there as channel 372 all along. A bit of jiggling and now it is back where it belongs.