There are no "major" digital switchover events this week; however a small number of minor technical changes may require a Freeview retune for some homes this week.

^{Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV 24th October 2011 at 11:50}

There are going to be some minor changes to the "forward error correction" parameter of some of the commercial multiplexes this week, the assist with reception improvements.

Under most circumstances your Freeview box should work with no changes, you may just see the "If you find you are missing channels, please re-tune your Freeview TV or box" message.

If you do find that the commercial multiplexes no longer work as you expected, on the dates shown, then perform a "first time installation" to restore the channels.

Tuesday 25th October 2011

ArqB/COM6 (unless otherwise stated) at , , (all commercial mulitplexes), .

Wednesday 26th October 2011

ArqB/COM6 (unless otherwise stated) at , (SDN only), , .

Thursday 27th October 2011

Becon Hill (all commercial multiplexes), Black Hill (ArqA only), Kockmoor (ArqA only) , (ArqB/COM6)

Friday 28th October 2011

ArqB/COM6 at .

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Comments

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Briantist

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7:15 PM

Ian: In most cases this should not cause any retuning as there is no change to the service information tables, only a change to the forward error correction, which most boxes will detect anyway.

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Friday, 28 October 2011

AndrewP
11:43 AM
Liverpool

Hi Brian,
Always welcome your very helpful comments, both general and specific. Our situation at L37 1PZ is that we have the original at low height on a bungalow. We can receive all programmes except those on Arq B Mux and the check shows this location as clear, although there are some "blank" areas nearby on the reception map for . We accept that we may need to the aerial, and increase its height, and could do the installation ourselves, but do not know whether to get a high , or group C/D. Can you please.

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Saturday, 29 October 2011

Briantist

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11:28 AM

AndrewP: You are in an excellent area, in fact so much I would have a look at Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .

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Monday, 31 October 2011

Jim
12:44 PM
Kidderminster