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My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound o

My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong

My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+
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To deal with the problem you must clear the channel list completely and then rescan - if your box has it in the menus, please the 'installation menu' to do an initial scan or a reset to factory settings or First Time Installation. You MUST delete the entire existing list of channels. On most boxes this technique can be also be used:

Try this:

1) unplug your Freeview box (or idTV) from the mains;



2) unplug the aerial from the Freeview box by disconnecting the cable from the 'RF in' socket;



3) wait 30 seconds;

4) plug Freeview box (or idTV) mains back in;



5) do a complete scan for channels - it will fail without the aerial. (This may be in the installation or initialization menu, and is distinct from any 'add channels option'). Once this is done your channel line up should be empty;



6) reinsert aerial by reconnecting to the 'RF in' connection;



7) do a complete scan for channels again.



The Freeview channel line-up provided by six "multiplexes" - each of which carry five or more TV channels, radio channels, text services and EPG data. In this diagram each ROW represents a multiplex. If you are still missing a whole multiplex (ie everything on the row) you may need to replace your aerial with a wideband type, purchase a larger aerial or you may have interference from a VCR, games console, Sky Digibox or similar.



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Comments
Monday, 1 August 2011
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MAC
5:56 PM
Worcester

since early July i have had really poor signal on itv itv2 itv3 channel 4 e4 etc.. i live in Worcester and i think I'm on the Malvern Transmitter... any ideas?

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Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

8:07 AM

Michael: It is probably you will have to wait until 27th June 2012 before you can receive all the Freeview channels from the Sudbury transmitter.

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Ben
4:55 PM
Pulborough

Ive lost 20 or so TV channels in the last day or two. I was getting a no signal/check your antenna so I retuned the set top box. Now i am down to 23 TV and 11 Radio stations. I have cleared the memory, retuned and done this again all the same issue missing channels.RH20 2A

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Wednesday, 3 August 2011
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Robert
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

11:49 AM

I am sure once again we will be told there is nothing wrong at the Transmitter end but again Mux 2 is at best intermittent on all my aerials after 6 months of relative stability.

Let us hope that the change over really does the trick. My guests get very annoyed when things don't work. We are the number one accommodation provider for business in Swindon on TA and want to keep it.

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Thursday, 4 August 2011
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Linda
11:51 AM
Houghton Le Spring

lg tv was fine before retuning. have done retune as directed but still no tv guide, no dtv, no tv guide only a handful of channels. aerial new and in loft. nothing has changed and as i said was fine before retuning. please advice how to get channels back to dtv. thanks.

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Friday, 5 August 2011
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Anne Cockitt
1:23 PM
Birmingham

My postcode is B30 2PD and I can no longer obtain any channels, although I have tried to reset the box, message says no signal. I can only get the 5 main TV channels through my DVD recorder.
My aerial is on the roof.



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Robert
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

7:28 PM

Well chaps wait for a link to the possible solutions, none of which of course will work, and hey presto in a couple days everything will be back to normal.

If this is what we have to look forward to perhaps we ought to be looking at who's making money out of this, excluding this site of course.

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