All posts by David Allen
Below are all of David Allen's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Dave Lindsay: Thank you for your response and ideas. The YouView box does not give any idea other than percentage complete, therefore one would assume that it would be very difficult to know when to unplug the aerial.
Having said this I have managed to fix the issue myself. I have never used the aerial since moving into the property and therefore never taken any notice or interest. On closer inspection I noticed that it has a mast head amp. In their wisdom the previous owner took the power pack with them assuming that it was an amplifier!??
So firstly I purchased a power pack which boosted the signal strength form around 36% to 63% on most channels and retuned. This picked up an additional 5 channels, however the box was still not showing all channels in the TV guide.
I then factory reset the box and when prompted entered the postcode for the Tacolneston transmitter. Opened the TV guide and he presto all freeview channels now showing and available.
Once again Dave thank you for your ideas.
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Friday 7 November 2014 2:19PM
Swaffham
I live in Necton, Swaffham, PE37 8NP and have recently taken deliver of a new YouView box from Talk Talk. I have been through the guided set up and also tried the instructions on this website. I have also been into a local TV/Aerial provider for some advice.
After an Auto Scan the box picks up 136 channels including radio, however when I look through the tv guide there seems to be quite a few different channels missing. I have checked within the settings that the box is not hiding any channels and all appears to be fine there. The guy at the TV shop I visited suggested a manual retune as the box may not be collecting a signal from the correct transmitter. I am missing the likes of film 4, more 4 and E4 and ITV to name a few so it looks like what the guy is suggesting is correct, a complete multiplex.
There is no manual retune option on a YouView box that I can find after trolling the internet so assume that I can not exhaust this option unless anyone knows of a way of doing this. The only other thing that I think that it could be would be the aerial not picking up a wide enough band, however this seems a little over the top as the reason from switching from sky was to reduce the cost!!
Can anyone help or provide me with some ideas?
Thank you