Winter Hill BBC2 analogue QRT schedule.

Talking to someone in the know about lost channels today.

It may be that BBC has moved from 2K to 8K but with a retune the
box may still be looking for 2K.

A software hard reset should cure the problem. Anyone tried that?




--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

In message , Woody
writes
Talking to someone in the know about lost channels today.

It may be that BBC has moved from 2K to 8K but with a retune the
box may still be looking for 2K.

A software hard reset should cure the problem. Anyone tried that?


But do all STBs have a software hard reset?

Incidentally, there was an item on today's BBC R4 'You and Yours' (21m
27s to 26m 15s).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00njb1t/You_and_Yours_05_11_2009/
Digital UK's spokesman, John Askew, got himself well tied in up knots,
having said yesterday that you could even make a pre-war TV set work
with a set-top box!
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Ian

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in
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ll.co.uk...
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:20:13 +0000, Paul Martin wrote:
May be wrong but I think the Humax FoxT2 has such.

Can't get 'em no more, worse luck. And yes, it has. I use one as a radio
tuner.

Bill

In message , Woody
writes
Talking to someone in the know about lost channels today.

It may be that BBC has moved from 2K to 8K but with a retune the
box may still be looking for 2K.

A software hard reset should cure the problem. Anyone tried that?


But do all STBs have a software hard reset?

Incidentally, there was an item on today's BBC R4 'You and Yours' (21m
27s to 26m 15s).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00njb1t/You_and_Yours_05_11_2009/
Digital UK's spokesman, John Askew, got himself well tied in up knots,
having said yesterday that you could even make a pre-war TV set work
with a set-top box!

Yes, what a pity they wasted valuable time rambling on about that.

Bill

The message
from Mike Tomlinson contains these words:

TBH, I'm rather tempted to replace that fourway amp with another of
those NTL 3 way splitters now that I've seen just how strong a signal
I'm getting from the Storeton Tx. I'm pretty certain I've got a few more
left in my NTL bits box (Don't ask! ;-).

It's always good to do this if you can. There's nothing worse than
attenuators followed by a crap amplifier (like yours).

Bill

In article , Johnny B Good
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I haven't tried a retune on the desktop PC to see if ITV3 will reappear
but that is only of moderate academic interest anyway since, apart from
that, I appear to have successfully tuned all 6 muxes (something the USB
stick signally failed to do until I attenuated the signal).

Two cheapy set top boxes at home (New Brighton) picked up 8 muxes and
124 channels. Not yet had time to sort through them. Seems to be a lot
in the 800s.

I just want my Inverto IDL7000 PVR to work. Bought Mum one last
Christmas - I knew I was taking a chance 'cos there's no longer any UK
support. It picked up BBC1 and 2 on ch28 - albeit unwatchable - but
doesn't like 62 much (has a think, says 'nah' and moves on.)

Will persevere tonight. Other users report that if it's made to scan
channels often enough it gives in and co-operates.

--
Mike Tomlinson

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:25:04 +0000, brightside S9 wrote:

Labgear FV300 and FV400 have a display but cannot determine what it
displays!

I found a manual for the FV300 online no mention of a display. The
FV400 does have a display and in it's manual it says:

"LED DISPLAY: Used to display the time or channel information"

Anyway this has taken a step down the priority level since I found
the Sky, bless their cotton sock, have now locked (at least old)
"Freesat from Sky" cards to the box they are in so you can't shuffle
them about to get the regionalisation and Ch4 etc correct in multiple
boxes.

I might have sprung another £20 for a new card but as the proposed
changes to the avaliable channels hardly affected us I wasn't going
to bother. I'll definately not be jumping through hoops to get two
cards and cough up £40.

So I'll be looking at Freesat boxes with twin Rx's and HD/DVD record
facilties.

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Cheers
Dave.

The message
from "Bill" contains these words:

The message
from Mike Tomlinson contains these words:

TBH, I'm rather tempted to replace that fourway amp with another of
those NTL 3 way splitters now that I've seen just how strong a signal
I'm getting from the Storeton Tx. I'm pretty certain I've got a few more
left in my NTL bits box (Don't ask! ;-).

It's always good to do this if you can. There's nothing worse than
attenuators followed by a crap amplifier (like yours).

Bill

Thanks Bill,

That was a rather neat and concise response. It confirms (from a man of
experience) the 'quality' of my cheaply bought amps (from a major ham
rally a few years back -Norbreck).

The construction quality looked good (I know, looks can be decieving
and the price was right. I knew the signal off the WH antenna was good
for feeding a single TV set so I just needed a fourway amp with a modest
gain to cancel out splitter and feeder losses.

It was only later that I realised I could also use Storeton to recieve
the digital service so I diverted its feed to my son's bedroom so as to
serve all the TV recievers in the house. It's only now that I've come to
realise that amplification is no longer required.

As soon as I've laid hands on another one of those 3 way splitters and
swapped the amp out, I'll confirm the make and model of the attic 4 way
amp and report back.

The indications seem to be that they've boosted the TX levels of the
muxes (at least at the Storeton site) which seems a bit premature
considering they've only closed down a single analogue channel (perhaps
all the remaining analogue channels after the mux move were no longer at
risk from the effects of running the mux transmissions at full power).
Does anyone know for sure if this is the case?

--
Regards, John.

Please remove the "ohggcyht" before replying.
The address has been munged to reject Spam-bots.

Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:25:04 +0000, brightside S9 wrote:

Labgear FV300 and FV400 have a display but cannot determine what it
displays!

I found a manual for the FV300 online no mention of a display. The
FV400 does have a display and in it's manual it says:

"LED DISPLAY: Used to display the time or channel information"

Manuals available in PDF form here
http://www.chsinteractive.co.uk/pdf_data/FV300.pdf
http://www.chsinteractive.co.uk/pdf_data/FV400.pdf

The 400 is the one with the display as shown in the illustration in
the 400's manual. Some sellers may be illustrating both boxes with the
400 causing confusion. But if you want a display get a 400.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

In message , Ian Jackson
writes:
In message , Woody
writes

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in
message

If anyone knows of a (cheap) DTTV box that has a channel number
display on it I'd be interested for use a radio.

May be wrong but I think the Humax FoxT2 has such.

You're not wrong, It has (and a modulator too).

I don't know if they're still available, but they weren't cheap -
typically £55.

Secondhand, the old OnDigital boxes - various manufacturers - have a
channel number display, and modulators. And survived the last retune
with the split table. And have more buttons on them than most more
recent boxes (OK, you may have to leave subtitles on to keep the front
panel buttons working, but that shouldn't matter if you only want it as
a radio!). You don't seem to see them often though!
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