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[broadstairs]

Well we did all ours yesterday, even my wife managed to do a couple of sets just to prove she could..... she hates technology. All are working OK and yes we do still get that stoopid message occasionally. Apparently on the ITV news last night they said it has cuased loads of problems with many people not managing it at all.

[roseway]

One of the possible problems is that a full retune may not purge the old channel list first, so you end up with a combination of old and new. This happened when I retuned my Toppy, and the solution was to do a factory reset before the retune. Some other Freeview boxes may have a manual 'purge' option which you can use first.

[tuftedduck]

TD did all this the painless way.....by ignoring the whole thing. 

Mind you, the fact that we do not get digital telly around here helped..

[UncleUB]

TD did all this the painless way.....by ignoring the whole thing. 

Mind you, the fact that we do not get digital telly around here helped..

I have a spare box TD complete with flat screen TV.

[tuftedduck]

 

Thanks, unkyUb...but that looks way too technical and modern for me...

[BritBrat]

Sorted, wrong instruction given on the web site.

Worked it out for myself in the end.

[broadstairs]

Mind you, the fact that we do not get digital telly around here helped..

If you look at the official site and put in the post code we dont get digital TV either, however it works - very well most of the time. The problem here is that depending on the atmospherics at the time we can also get French digital and analogue TV stations. Apparently it will be a problem round here when we switchover because the French do at the same time and both them and us will up the power output - so could get interesting!

[tuftedduck]

Hmmm...you are spoiled for choice, even if the choice is dependent on outside factors...

Digi switch here is April 2011.....until then we cannot even get Channel 5........but do we get a discounted licence fee ?......

[tickmike]

One set's ok but the other BBC1 & 2 got poor signal and we cannot use those channels.

[tickmike]

I got my ladder out this afternoon and rotated my TV aerial a few degrees while my daughter watched the signal strength meter under settings menu .
It's made a big deference .

It's odd never had any problem until the re-tune 

[oldfogy]

That is one of the biggest problems where some aerial riggers are conning people into buying new aerials, when all it needs is a slight re-tune to allow for the narrower signal.

[BritBrat]

Did anyone else lose all BBC channels this evening?

[UncleUB]

Fine for me here in Sheffield......Our signal comes via the Emley Moor transmitter

[toulouse]

I seem to have lost the BBC channels, and am having to go through the retuning process each time I switch on my TV. Does anyone know why that might be. I'm in the Mendip TV region I think.

toulouse

[tonyappuk]

Toulouse. One of the "tricks" you may need to do is a complete installation reset to square one. This seems to be necessary for some models probably due to memory limitations.  The software in many cases doesn't seem clever enough to reallocate channel numbers properly and it still goes on saying a channel is where it used to be but nothing's there after the transmitter changes.
Tony