Sam-Addy A3 Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 loads of my freeview channels have stopped working, anyone else got the same thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigamac Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Nope.If anything i got more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-Addy A3 Posted March 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 ah right lol, cheers mate.i just thought it cant be i got a bad signal because the guide thing is workin fine, that usually breaks when i havnt got a signal ahhhh wellSam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigamac Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 What freeview box is it?Check it up with the producers of the box and so on.Or it might be the area you live in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Try rescanning the box, generally helps me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-Addy A3 Posted March 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 What freeview box is it?Check it up with the producers of the box and so on.Or it might be the area you live in.Built in freeview lol, but yeah i do live in the middle of nowhere, it often goes weird but its just weirder today lol Try rescanning the box, generally helps me Yeah might do, helps me aswell, i just cba lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 i just cba lolTo press something like Menu, Down, Down, Select, Select?Lazy git. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Quinn Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Mine occasionally jus stop working too, sometimes the guide feels like joining them in a sick day, someti9mes it doesn't.I dunno how they can force a digital switch when it's this f**king poor Feels like a step backwards to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamAllen Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Mine occasionally jus stop working too, sometimes the guide feels like joining them in a sick day, someti9mes it doesn't.I dunno how they can force a digital switch when it's this f**king poor Feels like a step backwards to be honest.Its shocking, At least with analogue its always there!This is why I'd never buy a TV with freeview built in.. what if it decides to F up then, no analouge channels... No TV, another great move England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Mine doesn't work at all anymore, I use Zattoo on my PC now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-Addy A3 Posted March 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Its all workin now guys just bad signal i thinkIts shocking, At least with analogue its always there!This is why I'd never buy a TV with freeview built in.. what if it decides to F up then, no analouge channels... No TV, another great move England.Theya have all the analogue channels aswell as digital, and i agree it is a shitty signal atm, but apparantly they are slowly increasing the strength of the signal until we switch over Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 I dunno how they can force a digital switch when it's this f**king poor Feels like a step backwards to be honest.The fact that we still have analogue is the reason why digital is so poor. Once they turn off analogue they can boost the digital signal up to a much higher level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Quinn Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 (edited) This is why I'd never buy a TV with freeview built in.. what if it decides to F up then, no analouge channels... No TV, another great move England.I thought all the digital TVs with built in Freeview do still have the option of Analogue channels though? The one i won in a work raffle does at least.The fact that we still have analogue is the reason why digital is so poor. Once they turn off analogue they can boost the digital signal up to a much higher level.Ahh fair play, wasn't aware of that Edited March 23, 2009 by Max Quinn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 I lost pretty much all my freeview channels except 10 3 days ago (Saturday night), was f**king annoying to say the least!Lost them all, bbc 1 and 2, itv, channel 4 and the rest except 10 random ones like E4+1 and some random shit.Didn't get them all back until Sunday evening after re-scanning a lot.Apparently after the 25th all of the channels may not work again, unless i've already had it and that was the reason for the loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamAllen Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 I thought all the digital TVs with built in Freeview do still have the option of Analogue channels though? The one i won in a work raffle does at least.Yeah but I mean after the switch over.Ahh fair play, wasn't aware of that Same.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_malcolm Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 meh freeview annoys me where i live we get bairly any reception, never pick up bbc 1 or 2 we get bbc 3 if were lucky.I dont think im going to be rushing out to renew my tv license when it comes up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 It's funny, I live on a huge hill, with TV satalites near the top, but yet I get barely any signal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 Have you tried setting it up properly with digital specific equipment?The amount of times i've been to peoples houses and offered to have a look at it for them after they complain about it being rubbish only to find that they are using ridiculously poor quality aerial cable, no signal booster box and its hooked up to the aerial on the house that was installed decades ago. A lot of the time the cabling doesn't even have any form of shielding, meaning its just a big long copper conductor for interference If thats the case, nip down to your local wilkinsons/b&q, pick up some shielded co-axial cable. Note it doesn't have to be expensive just ensure its at least got foil shielding, my upstairs run cost me all of £5 for 26 metres. Pick up some of the cable ends and then wire up an indoor aerial yourself. Fit a booster box as close to the aerial as you can get it in order to avoid boosting signal disturbances from the cable length as well then hook it all up and see how it fairs. My parents house was like this, a £5 mini indoor digital aerial, the cabling and a £2 booster box from argos stopped the pizza boy effect (distorted images from mopeds outside) and improved the signal from low to high on every channel and allowed around 6-7 more channels to be received.Total cost for a digital specific upgrade can be extremely effect for as little as £20. Obviously fitting a new aerial to the roof would be the preferred way of doing it but i'm not going to recommend that anyone go out with a pair of ladders and fit their own as it IS a dangerous job. Fitting a wall or loft aerial would be close in terms of performance though and much safer, but the cost of these aerials are more than a small indoor one (usually around £20 upwards). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 Have you tried setting it up properly with digital specific equipment?The amount of times i've been to peoples houses and offered to have a look at it for them after they complain about it being rubbish only to find that they are using ridiculously poor quality aerial cable, no signal booster box and its hooked up to the aerial on the house that was installed decades ago. A lot of the time the cabling doesn't even have any form of shielding, meaning its just a big long copper conductor for interference If thats the case, nip down to your local wilkinsons/b&q, pick up some shielded co-axial cable. Note it doesn't have to be expensive just ensure its at least got foil shielding, my upstairs run cost me all of £5 for 26 metres. Pick up some of the cable ends and then wire up an indoor aerial yourself. Fit a booster box as close to the aerial as you can get it in order to avoid boosting signal disturbances from the cable length as well then hook it all up and see how it fairs. My parents house was like this, a £5 mini indoor digital aerial, the cabling and a £2 booster box from argos stopped the pizza boy effect (distorted images from mopeds outside) and improved the signal from low to high on every channel and allowed around 6-7 more channels to be received.Total cost for a digital specific upgrade can be extremely effect for as little as £20.We had some bloke come in and apparently set the whole house up, and he's suppose to have put in a whole new reciever system on the roof. Does it work? Does it f**k!Apparently our whole house is going "Sky+HD" soon though, which I'm not going to complain about, if it works.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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