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All posts by Martin Rosen
Below are all of Martin Rosen's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.B
Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmitThursday 5 April 2012 10:41PM
London
Dave Lindsay: Thank you for your reply of 4 April at 6.45pm. You are right the 14 extra channels are duplicates on 800+ Will they disappear on second switchover date?
The HD channels were seriously breaking up during the day today. I wanted to record a couple of programmes for earlier this evening, but didn't risk HD. However, having come home and checked the HD channels they are now perfect. Does night-time make any difference.
I don't understand muxes or how to determine which channels programmes are on, other than channel 1 for BBC1, channel 2 for BBC2 etc !!!
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jb38: I suspect what Barbara is referring to is the i-manual that is built into the Sony television.
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When we have the second retune next week, will I have to do a manufacturer's reset again, or will a simple update suffice?
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Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmitWednesday 11 April 2012 9:22PM
London
jb38: I don't understand mux channel changes or one disappearing !!
I know last week, I did an autoscan and it didn't work (aerial still plugged in), I wasn't receiving all the channels. I then did a manufacturer's reset and everything was sorted! So would it be quicker to do that first time?
(This time I have made a note of my settings for picture and sound as they all get reset and it takes ages to get them right again!).
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Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmitThursday 12 April 2012 10:14PM
London
JB38: Thank you again for your advice.
What would happen if I just did an update with the aerial still plugged in?
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Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmitWednesday 18 April 2012 10:57PM
London
jb38: Your post of 13 April 'Selecting "channel update" can in many cases add to whats already stored in a TV or boxes memory and can, dependant on the box or TV, result in the frequently heard complaint of a person losing channels when the device is switched off over night, this in most cases caused by the devices memory capacity having been exceeded during a re-scan.'
I did a scan this morning with the aerial unplugged and then again with the aerial in. AFAIK everything worked okay, other than I have 3 more channels than I did prior to 4 April (118 now)! Haven't worked out what they are as have been out most of this evening.
This morning I noticed that the pictures on the HD channels were breaking up with the digital recorder switched on (but not as much as prior to today's switchover). I tried it briefly this evening and it seemed to be okay.
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Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmitThursday 19 April 2012 11:32PM
London
jb38: My television signal comes from a block of flats across the road, going underground and then fed into the houses opposite!
I have no idea what is there, I just plug the aerial in from a wall socket.
TBH All seems well, but hopefully tomorrow will be the first evening I will be able to check everything since Wednesday.
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Wednesday 4 April 2012 6:36PM
London
I did the retune this morning and found I was getting no signal from BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 (no caption), BBC News. I retuned another couple of times to no avail.
I contacted Sony and when I eventually got through, she took me through a factory reset and it all seems to be working okay now.
On a slightly different subject, I notice I am now receiving 129 channels, previously 115. Anybody know what the extra 14 are - a quick glance on the EPG and I can't identify them.