All posts by StevensOnln1
Below are all of StevensOnln1's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Mike Davison: Nobody needs to replace any equipment for Freeview. BBC One HD is becoming fully regionalised across England, but the existing SD regions will all remain, no closures have been announced for Freeview (perhaps you are thinking of satellite where BBC SD channels will close early next year following the full rollout of HD regions over the last couple of months).
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Mike Davison: You still seem to misunderstand the situation. Nobody will need to replace any equipment as the BBC SD channels will be continuing exactly as they are now on Freeview. All that is happening is that the current BBC One HD channel on 101 will be replaced with a regional version of BBC One HD, which will match the region currently available in SD on Freeview channel 1. As the SD version will not be closing, you don't need to replace your PVR or any other equipment. It is only satellite viewers using older equipment that does not support DVB-S2 (old Sky digiboxes and Sky+ boxes or early Freesat boxes) that will loose BBC SD channels if they do not upgrade.
Most viewers won't even need to retune as most TVs, PVRs and set top boxes that receive HD channels will handle the change automatically. In short, you only need to retune if BBC One HD disappears from 101, otherwise no further action is required.
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Mike Davison: Give that regional news is only an hour a day, I doubt that it will be much incentive for people who haven't already upgraded when the other 23 hours of output each day have already been available for 10+ years.
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Ross Trotter: The BBC have now published a list of which regions will be getting the HD upgrade on Freeview tomorrow.
On 22nd March 2023 viewers in the following regions will gain their local version of BBC One HD on Freeview channel 101, carrying the full regional news service, in place of the existing BBC One HD national channel with the red screen during regional news slots:
East Midlands
West Midlands
East Yorks & Lincs
London
Channel Islands
Yorkshire
Viewers in the remaining regions will need to wait until 26th April (although this date is subject to change). See the link below for full details.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/med…land
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Elvin Rose: Many receivers handled the change automatically, it's mostly older TVs and boxes that would have required a manual retune. The BBC did publish an announcement yesterday, which can be found at the link below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/med…land
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Robert Stewart: There is no such thing as a digital aerial, an aerial is a piece of metal which does not know of care whether the signals it receives are analogue or digital. If you provide a full postcode we can check the predicted signal strength at your location and offer further advice.
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Paul : Your box deleting your recording schedule during an automatic retune is down to either a bug or poor design by Humax rather than anything the BBC or any other broadcaster has any control over. There was an on-screen popup message broadcast by the BBC several days before to warn that some receivers may need to be retuned on the 22nd.
I can't reach the Emley Moor page either, hopefully @Briantist (the owner of the site) will be able to fix that at some point.
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Evelyn Waugh: Smothsonian Channel closed completely last year. Does your daughter live at the same address and is here TV connected to the same aerial as yours? Please provide a full postcode so that we can see which transmitters are available and the predicted signal strength at your location. If you are currently receiving the channels then you shouldn't be at any great risk of loosing them by retuning to update your channel list.
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Dave Moore: No completion date has been announced so far. Arqiva have a dedicated website (see link below) with updates and information on the help schemes for people who lost reception after the fire.
Home | Bilsdale Mast: Project Restore
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Sunday 12 March 2023 2:57PM
Ritsaert: The post you replied to from 2 days ago is warning of loss of signal on some channels, so it is likely that whatever engineering work or weather conditions have triggered the warning are currently taking place. Do not attempt to retune.