Let's compile a register of how well receivers retuned today

Roger R wrote:
"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.



With seemingly most of the software designed by geeks, who haven't the
faintest idea that many of the users will range from the non-technical,
elderly, infirmed, not very bright, and I suspect the overwhelming majority,
who do not wish to get themselves involved in a 30 minute session of the
Krypton factor just to retune a bloody television or set-top box!

Rowridge area.

As far as I could see only Ch5 and possibly some ITV were missing, corrected
by rescan.

Pace 735 - no problem.

I *assume* the Nokia 95850T will be exactly the same as built to common
spec.

Menu Getting started Store channels.
Does rescan, and stored new list.

Necessary to re-select 'Favourites'.

Roger R

Pioneer DBR-TF100 (Sutton Coldfield) All channels present and correct. No
degradation of reception on any channel that I can tell.

Box was a hand-me-down too, didn't pay a single penny for it! p

(kim)

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
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)

Same with my Philips sets, pointing at Sutton Coldfiled - so I guess it's
pretty general.

Dunno whether it's always done it - never noticed it before!
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Ivan wrote:

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 have one of his boxes, it's 11 years old today. Still working
perfectly, and has had channels come, go, and move seamlessly over the
years without any fuss, or intervention from me.

Ivan wrote:
........... 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............


From elsewhere it seems with the Hummy 9200T you only have to delete
the channels that moved in the channel list. Or just delete the lot.

I too used the reset to default function, which has the effect of
literally resetting every-setting-in-sight. 4:3 instead of 16:9, ad
skip forward time, ALL timer settings..... :-(

And in my email from Humax, informing me of the need to retune, they
referred me to the TVretune website to find out how to do it on their
products! Usual Humax attitude!

Regards,
Richard

alrafter wrote:
......The main problem was a Humax 9300 PVR it appeared to find
all the channels but on the EPG they were in the wrong place. ITV3 for
instance was channel 801 it was also in 10 but was blank. Did a factory
set and all problems cured, although I now have to redo series links
and some preferences.

You got additional channels! On Hummys it looks like you need to clear
the channel list before doing an automatic scan. There's no rescan as
such, it's more like a find new channels!
All you need to do is switch to standby and back to re-order EPG list.

Richard

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:31:58 +0100, "Ivan"
wrote:

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.

I discovered that an automatic channel scan on a Humax PVR9200T does not
clear and replace the existing channel list. I eventually used the Edit
Channel Lists dialogue to delete all entries. After that an Automatic
Search was fine.

The only problem I had with Pace DTVA, Goodmans, Bush and Wharfedale
STBs was that I retuned some of them too early and had to redo them
later. I did them successively during a period of about 30 minutes. If
I'd started 15 minutes later there would have been no problem.

I was temporarily flummoxed by the menus on a Samsung LCD with
integrated DTT tuner. How was I supposed to know that the icon for
searching for terrestrial channels was a nice picture of a satellite
dish?

All the channels seem to be present on all boxes. I live just a few km
from the Divis transmitter although there is a hill in the way.

Like other people I see a Channel 89 named "News". There is nothing
showing. Old proverb "No news is good news".

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

"Roger Mills" wrote in message
...
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
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


My own experience - on the fringe of Sutton Coldfield coverage, Group B
roof aerial . . .

The only significant change *without* retuning was that Chan 5 no longer
worked.

10, 24 and 27 should also have been blank (or rather, showing a message
saying that they had moved)

tim

"Graham." 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

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 have this too, from Rowridge

tim