All posts by Helen
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Thanks for that. There were no channels listed in the 800s and no BBC1, 2, 3 etc listed elsewhere so I've just tried another reset and retune. I've now no longer got anything listed for BBC1, BBC2 and BBC3 in the EPG and seem to have lost a few more channels and still nothing in the 800s . I've got our old Asda Durabrand box to try next instead - but our other ondigital box has been far more reliable in the past so I assumed it would be now as it's far more programmable than the Asda one.
This digital switchover stuff is an absolute mess and looks like it going to cost me a lot of money. Typical of the idiots in successive Governments on their over-inflated salaries to come up with something most of us don't want anyway and then it not work once they've done it!
Thanks again.
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Yes it is an Ondigital box. It's been super-reliable and has an excellent picture quality. I've just tried the old Asda one and have picked up the channels although the picture clarity isn't a patch on what we had before.
So it seems that our high picture quality box no longer works yet so we're forced into a second rate reception!
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I've just checked the OnDigital (Pace) serial no and found that it is one listed as being unable to receive the new signal. Obviously the people in charge of all this sort of thing think a) we're all rich and can afford just to replace equipment and b) green ethics have no place in the modern world and we can just throw stuff away ready for the next fancy thing!
The Asda one should be okay as my parents live a couple of miles away in a valley and have the same model box on the bedroom tv and theirs is fine (so the model obviously is working with the new signal.) Our house on one of the highest points for miles around (aircraft use our village as a trig point!) and we're nearer the Waltham transmitter so I'm hoping that when the next stage of switchover comes at the end of the month the picture clarity will improve.
I just have to wait for the local news at 1.30pm to see if I've got the right BBC1 channel or whether I need to search for it. It seems from what I've read that Belmont (broadcasting Look North) is sometimes overpowering Waltham (broadcasting East Midlands Today). As we only live 30 mins from the East Midlands studio it seems ironic that Yorkshire news should be on Lincs and Leics TVs yet local stuff isn't! The aerial is definitely pointing straight at Waltham so fingers crossed!
Thanks yet again.
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Just to update - we have East Midlands today! Hurrah.
It concerns me how some less technically minded people are coping - this whole mess just isn't the way things should be done. Hopefully the economic issues will put paid to this constant stream of so-called improvements and forcing us into spending money on silly toys!
Thanks for all the help.
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Sunday 21 August 2011 11:26PM
Grantham
We returned from holiday today and after a total retune of our usually very reliable digibox we seem to have lost BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 and CBBC since switchover. All had excellent digital reception before. We live on the Lincs/Leics border (postcode NG32 1AZ) and usually receive BBC1 East Midlands from the Waltham transmitter. Our aerial points to this, was new last year and was specifically chosen by a local firm (who are very highly regarded and whom we have used before in previous homes over many years) to be ready for the switchover so no boosters fitted etc, to ensure it could cope with the new stronger signal.
Every other channel is still available and has perfect reception and the EPG lists all the channels in their correct positions, including the missing 4 - it's simply that when you select, the channel title is there but no content.
My limited knowledge leads me to assume it must be connected with the MUX1 and BBCA change but I can't see how to correct it. We rarely watch anything but BBC and luckily we still have BBC4 but we're missing our super BBC1 news - Central news is just too awful!
Does anyone have any clues on this, please?
Thanks in advance