Nation Retune

My mother, in her 80's has a Panasonic digital TV listed on the
Freeview website which may not work after retuning on the 30th
september. Their advice there seems to be get a new TV!
From what I've read about this, the main changes relate to Ch5 and
some minor changes to other channels.
Since she only watches BBC1/2 and ITV1, I don't see the point of
re-tuning if these channels are not affected, but if she does re-tune,
it buggers her TV. As she says, why should she have to buy a new TV
when the one she's got works perfectly now.

Dave

Dave wrote:
My mother, in her 80's has a Panasonic digital TV listed on the
Freeview website which may not work after retuning on the 30th
september. Their advice there seems to be get a new TV!
From what I've read about this, the main changes relate to Ch5 and
some minor changes to other channels.
Since she only watches BBC1/2 and ITV1, I don't see the point of
re-tuning if these channels are not affected, but if she does re-tune,
it buggers her TV. As she says, why should she have to buy a new TV
when the one she's got works perfectly now.

What's the model of TV, and when did it last perform a rescan ?


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On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:05:41 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

Dave wrote:
My mother, in her 80's has a Panasonic digital TV listed on the
Freeview website which may not work after retuning on the 30th
september. Their advice there seems to be get a new TV!
From what I've read about this, the main changes relate to Ch5 and
some minor changes to other channels.
Since she only watches BBC1/2 and ITV1, I don't see the point of
re-tuning if these channels are not affected, but if she does re-tune,
it buggers her TV. As she says, why should she have to buy a new TV
when the one she's got works perfectly now.

What's the model of TV, and when did it last perform a rescan ?


It's a Panasonic TX-28DT2. Can't remember when a rescan was last done,
it's manual, not automatic, but will do one next Saturday when I next
see her to show how it's done.

Dave

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:05:41 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

Dave wrote:
My mother, in her 80's has a Panasonic digital TV listed on the
Freeview website which may not work after retuning on the 30th
september. Their advice there seems to be get a new TV!
From what I've read about this, the main changes relate to Ch5 and
some minor changes to other channels.
Since she only watches BBC1/2 and ITV1, I don't see the point of
re-tuning if these channels are not affected, but if she does re-tune,
it buggers her TV. As she says, why should she have to buy a new TV
when the one she's got works perfectly now.

What's the model of TV, and when did it last perform a rescan ?


It's a Panasonic TX-28DT2. Can't remember when a rescan was last done,
it's manual, not automatic, but will do one next Saturday when I next
see her to show how it's done.

Dave



critcher said............................
did a rescan today because of breakup on BBC 1 Wales, now there is no ITV1
Wales or S4C and still have break up on BBC1.
Panasonic 32in viera, living in Torfaen area, (South Wales)
Freeview + pvr using same aerial input is unaffected .

"Dave" wrote in message
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My mother, in her 80's has a Panasonic digital TV listed on the
Freeview website which may not work after retuning on the 30th
september. Their advice there seems to be get a new TV!
From what I've read about this, the main changes relate to Ch5 and
some minor changes to other channels.
Since she only watches BBC1/2 and ITV1, I don't see the point of
re-tuning if these channels are not affected, but if she does re-tune,
it buggers her TV. As she says, why should she have to buy a new TV
when the one she's got works perfectly now.

Even if the tuner doesn't work, all you have to buy to make it work is an
STB and a SCART cable

tim

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:05:41 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

Dave wrote:
My mother, in her 80's has a Panasonic digital TV listed on the
Freeview website which may not work after retuning on the 30th
september. Their advice there seems to be get a new TV!
From what I've read about this, the main changes relate to Ch5 and
some minor changes to other channels.
Since she only watches BBC1/2 and ITV1, I don't see the point of
re-tuning if these channels are not affected, but if she does re-tune,
it buggers her TV. As she says, why should she have to buy a new TV
when the one she's got works perfectly now.

What's the model of TV, and when did it last perform a rescan ?


It's a Panasonic TX-28DT2. Can't remember when a rescan was last done,
it's manual, not automatic, but will do one next Saturday when I next
see her to show how it's done.


Unless my eyes deceive me that model is not on the list.

Peter Crosland

"Peter Crosland" wrote in
o.uk:

"Dave" wrote in message
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It's a Panasonic TX-28DT2. Can't remember when a rescan was last done,
it's manual, not automatic, but will do one next Saturday when I next
see her to show how it's done.


Unless my eyes deceive me that model is not on the list.

Peter Crosland

It looks like it is on the list of TVs which will stop working when digital
switchover arrives in an area - Coverage issues/Why has my Freeview
equipment stopped working?.
If so then it will probably be OK after the 30th September changes, but not
when switchover finally arrives in the area.


Judy

"Judy Booth" wrote in message
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"Peter Crosland" wrote in
o.uk:

"Dave" wrote in message
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It's a Panasonic TX-28DT2. Can't remember when a rescan was last done,
it's manual, not automatic, but will do one next Saturday when I next
see her to show how it's done.


Unless my eyes deceive me that model is not on the list.

Peter Crosland

It looks like it is on the list of TVs which will stop working when
digital
switchover arrives in an area - Coverage issues/Why has my Freeview
equipment stopped working?.
If so then it will probably be OK after the 30th September changes, but
not
when switchover finally arrives in the area.


Please could you post the URL for this list?

Peter Crosland

On 20 Sep 2009 15:24:05 GMT, Judy Booth wrote:

"Peter Crosland" wrote in
news:[email protected] co.uk:

"Dave" wrote in message
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It's a Panasonic TX-28DT2. Can't remember when a rescan was last done,
it's manual, not automatic, but will do one next Saturday when I next
see her to show how it's done.


Unless my eyes deceive me that model is not on the list.

Peter Crosland

It looks like it is on the list of TVs which will stop working when digital
switchover arrives in an area - Coverage issues/Why has my Freeview
equipment stopped working?.
If so then it will probably be OK after the 30th September changes, but not
when switchover finally arrives in the area.




You could be right. I've just had a look again at the Freeview
website, but there seemed to be conflicting info. One page said
equipment may not work after the 30th, but another page adds that if
you are in an area that's already had the switchover equipment may not
work.


Dave

"Dave" wrote in message
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My mother, in her 80's has a Panasonic digital TV listed on the
Freeview website which may not work after retuning on the 30th
september. Their advice there seems to be get a new TV!

Read it again!

From what I've read about this, the main changes relate to Ch5 and
some minor changes to other channels.

Read it again!

Since she only watches BBC1/2 and ITV1, I don't see the point of
re-tuning if these channels are not affected,

Well she isn't going to be watching anything then.

but if she does re-tune, it buggers her TV.

Read it again!

As she says, why should she have to buy a new TV
when the one she's got works perfectly now.


She doesn't need to buy a new TV.

Dave