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On Oct 1, 10:16*am, airsmoothed wrote:
On Oct 1, 10:08*am, "Zimmy" wrote:

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message

.com...

Could we now ask the broadcasters to retune their selection process for
things we might like to have on TV, rather than chuck out the rubbish I
heard last night while flitting around the available dross. Durasic Park
AGAIN? Lots of rubbish fly *on the wall cop real event type rubbish,
Bloody sport, Umpteen rubbish news services,

Speak for yourself, I don't know how I lived before 'Russia Today'. ;-)

Z

Vestel T825 ( Digihome) pointing at Rowridge seems to have coped OK,
haven't checked every single channel yet. Biggest ballache was
deleting all the shopping channels and suchlike crap from the channel
list after rescan.

whoops, forgot, daughter's Bush DFTA14 hasn't been retuned but still
seems to be picking up most channels OK, CH5 now blank unsurprisingly.

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Mark Carver wrote:
Java Jive wrote:
Pace Twin ok, but as always, loses your personal channel lists, so
you have to rebuild them - damned tedious. I too have ITV2+1 as
ITV from Hannington.

Yep, same here (also Hannington), plus:-

A blank channel 'news' on Ch 89. That causes my Toppy to crash if I
select it.
A blank channel that my Sony PVR labels as '????' on Ch 27 (all other
receivers label it as just a blank space.

C5's picture quality is a disgrace.

'Deck chairs' and 'Titanic' come to mind, but I suppose that's the
result of treating the UHF band as a commodity rather than a resource?


Retuning my 2 year old Digifusion 80gb PVR was a piece of cake, 'Add
Channels' or 'Reinstall all Channels' which was completed without fuss
within several minutes. On the other hand my Humax PVR ended up missing out
channels, with others in the wrong order, it eventually had to be set back
to the factory default position, along with a pin number having to be
entered twice in the process (I'm glad that I originally set it at 0000!)
and a rather lengthy rescan. then came the the 37in Phillips LCD TV which
suffice to say can only be described as a near traumatic experience! (see
Brian Gregory's post) and when it did eventually reach 100 per cent (after
an interminable scanning process) the menu appeared to lock up, however I
decided to be patient and after a wait - of what seemed to be several
minutes - it eventually asked me if I wanted press OK to store.. all this
was carried out with the aid of a C/D filter, otherwise all of the Mendip
channels would have been mixed with an equal number from the Wenvoe
transmitter!. Love him or hate him, one has to agree that Murdoch had it
spot on when he insisted that all of his Sky receivers had to conform to a
standard menu system.

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Graham. wrote:

Both my Vestel 80GB PVRs have ITV2+1 (33) tagged as "ITV"
I'm on Winter Hill is that the same for everybody?
(can't be sure it wasn't like that before retuning)

I'm on Crystal Palace and I had that on my Topfield before I deleted
it. I delete a load of channels I never watch so I can get the EPG on
two pages on the TAP I use for EPG.

I had minor problems with the EPG TAP not matching the LCNs but that
was cleared up by refreshing the EPG cache.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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On Sep 30, 10:48*pm, "Bill Wright"
wrote:
I've been on holiday today, so haven't had any messages from customers
(well, only two), but here's how my own retune has gone so far:
1. Newish Sony IDTV. Just did it with no problem.
2. Humax F2 Fox T: Found only 24 channels, lost everything else, so I tried
again. Same result. Did a factory reset, this worked OK. The odd thing is,
the receiver comes on now when powered up without needing the standby button
to be pressed, which it didn't before.

Tomorrow I have to retune a lot of stuff, so I'll report back.

Bill

Two Samsung TVs
TV 1 - 42" plasma, retuned without a hitch via external Mast mounted
aerial to Crystal Palace. Says 100 channels available
Tv 2 - 19" LCD, retuned without a hitch via internal cheapo argos
jobby thing. Lost ITV channels in favour of BBC lost Ch5 but all the
Dave type channels are rock solid. Time to connect it up to the mast I
think.

Haven't done the Humax 9150 PVR yet as I'm deocrating and it's back in
it's box for now. Might try it tonight.

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On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 03:35:20 -0700 (PDT)
Mike wrote:
Haven't done the Humax 9150 PVR yet as I'm deocrating and it's back in
it's box for now. Might try it tonight.

It took 2 attempts to get channel 5 and a couple of others back with my
9200 so expect some fun and games. And I live in london so it was nothing
to do with signal strength.

B2003

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
I've been on holiday today, so haven't had any messages from customers
(well, only two), but here's how my own retune has gone so far:
1. Newish Sony IDTV. Just did it with no problem.
2. Humax F2 Fox T: Found only 24 channels, lost everything else, so I
tried again. Same result. Did a factory reset, this worked OK. The odd
thing is, the receiver comes on now when powered up without needing the
standby button to be pressed, which it didn't before.

Tomorrow I have to retune a lot of stuff, so I'll report back.

Bill


Various Humax PVRs struggling to put channels in correct place. Manual tune
sorts them out. Various Echostar T101 boxes have been killed by this update!
Echostar will get them working again for postage costs only! Toshiba TV at
neighbours house has put channels in order it found them which is annoying
for them!

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On Oct 1, 11:40*am, wrote:
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 03:35:20 -0700 (PDT)

Mike wrote:
Haven't done the Humax 9150 PVR yet as I'm deocrating and it's back in
it's box for now. Might try it tonight.

It took 2 attempts to get channel 5 and a couple of others back with my
9200 so expect some fun and games. And I live in london so it was nothing
to do with signal strength.

B2003

Mm I'll look out for that. Thanks

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Panasonic TX 32 LX D85 Freeview telly. MIL's, three button pushes, all
channels available:- ITV4 etc. EH11

WharfedaleDV823B Freeview box. Son's, four button pushes, all channels
available:- ITV4 etc. This did have quite a wait on a new telly guide
being downloaded but this was automatic. EH14 (Balerno)

Both retunes were done as initial setup and on auto tune . Telly with
box internal took 30 secs to do +3 mins autotune. Digibox took 15 secs
+ 3 minutes autotune. + Unknown time (I went to toilet made cup of tea
watched main telly etc then came back and it was done) to download TV guide.

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"Ivan" wrote in message
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[snip] Love him or hate him, one has to agree that Murdoch had it spot on
when he insisted that all of his Sky receivers had to conform to a
standard menu system.

I'm not sure it was 'his' idea. OnDigital also set the spec for all their
suppliers of boxes and that seemed to work very well.

But I agree with the general point that it is better for consumers if
manufacturers make equipment to a standard spec. I don't understand why
Ofcom couldn't set the spec for receivers especially as they set the
standards for broadcasters...of course it would probably be called
'interfering with the operation of the free market'. Socialisation!

The open market has given us the diversity of junk that is being comented on
in this thread.

Roger R

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In message , writes
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 03:35:20 -0700 (PDT)
Mike wrote:
Haven't done the Humax 9150 PVR yet as I'm deocrating and it's back in
it's box for now. Might try it tonight.

It took 2 attempts to get channel 5 and a couple of others back with my
9200 so expect some fun and games. And I live in london so it was nothing
to do with signal strength.

B2003

After thinking all was well with my 9200T, I realised that ITV 3 &4 had
the wrong numbers, and I ended up having to delete all channels and
then re-tune.

It's fine now.
--
Ian