All posts by Robert Hellier
Below are all of Robert Hellier's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Call me old fashioned... I am one of those people only upgrade tv or box only if i really really have to... if it aint broke leave it till it dies completly... Also I am not a person goes out upgrade everything on a whim. I remember a saled man saying "freeview will not work on VHS video recorders" rubbish the best thing to do is have a digi box soley for video, set timers on both units.. it works well. I do have 2 Anolouge DVD recorders paired up with freeview box... that works well no problem. If i do get a freeview recorder.. i will make sure it has DVB T2 tuner.I do agree this "re tuning " is a pain but why not have all the " retuning" all at once due the switchover... i feel they haven't planned this out very well.. Freesat and Sky boxes no retuning need it automaticly put in new channels. I just wish freeview box do this properly... but saying that freeview boxes do re tune to other transmitters for no good reason. I very often do the Re tuning for the elderly in my village... for free of charge.. just a cuppa or coffee thats all i ask for. :-)
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rob: Thank you JB38 for your very helpful link.... I am not bothered about the sight of cables.. its only 5 metres outside the rest goes into the loft.. I dont care what the neighbours think... its my house my dish but i will do it in a tidy professional way.. just have to wait till my foot is fully recovered then i be brave enough to go up 3 story house to my dish.... might ask a mate at BT to "borrow a cherry picker" that be saver option
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oh i see i must have got myself confused...... mustn't use the internet when on strong painkillers... opps.. sorry folks
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rob: Thanks for your opinions... It has helped me.. I decided to go freesat all the way. thanks. will get octo lnb so i can wired up the whole house, get shot of freeview and tv areials then the place look alot more tidy :-)
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Ray Bailey.. I am deaf person too rely on subtitles.. Pick tv is the worse station for subtitles it either 10 seconds behind or not on at all... then another show come on then the subtitles show what happened the on the programme before it.... come on freeview sort it out!!!!.. Ray its not your tv or areial is the problem its the transmissions.... sometimes they forget to switch "on" the subs... same on ITV meridian... had no subtitles for a week... lucky i got London TV get subs on there.. its a pain to change aerial leads around and re tune it
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Tarek: this box.... is not hd or have iplayer.... it just a standard freeview recorder box...it will not pick up hd channels or able to plug in internet for iplayer at all... it this box not picking up tv stations try your aerial directly in to your main tv and no other boxes connected just tv.. id tv don't pick up freeview at all... its your land loads job to sort out the aerial
it's not your.. its his property and he will have to deal with it.. hope this helps.. it does sound to me the bush box is faulty take it back and get refund
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I do wish ITV didnt keep changing the ITV regions... for example Hannington and Oxford carry same ITV meridian news.. used to be Central or Thames Valley... I prefered to have a choice of ITV news i know i can do it be freesat... never mind.
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I like to ask why we have Sky BBC and ITV channels and Freesat BBC itv channels.. i found on a generic sat box over 600 odd channels why on earth they have to broadcast two separate platforms ie sky and freesat twice?? it don't make any sense in doing that.... Ok you got to have regional bbc and itv which is fair enough but why do they whole thing twice? to me seems a waste of satellite channels when it can be freed up for other things
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Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmitWednesday 13 November 2013 7:13AM
Reading
whats happening to crystal palace My TV signals has fallen off the scale can only get about 20 to 40 % signal....... normally it be 70 to 80 %.. my aerials are OK and checked all connections all fine....i think this engineering work has brought the transmission power right down.... I am in Reading RG8 8DB. I also get signals from Hannington.. that' s working ok for now...
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Monday 7 October 2013 1:34PM
Oh dear... its another way of government forcing people to buy new boxes or new tv's PVR's etc etc so they get the VAT.. So lets say i buy a PVR DVB T2 how do we know for sure it still work after 2018? does this mean freeview SD ceased for good?.. Why didnt freeview UK thought about this in the 1st place?????