Analog/digital switchover

Haven't really been paying much attention to this, but a message on C4,
recorded on 1st Dec, said the analog signal will switch off at midnight (in
the NorthWest)

Sure enough, at 1am, there was no analog.

Dug out a freeview box, retuned it, and it could only pick up BBC channels!

And on my freeview TV, (although not retuned), the commercial channels
seemed to be missing.

What's happened to all the rest?!

Both TV and stb are a couple of years old...

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Bartc

"bartc" wrote in message
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Haven't really been paying much attention to this, but a message on C4,
recorded on 1st Dec, said the analog signal will switch off at midnight (in
the NorthWest)

Sure enough, at 1am, there was no analog.

Dug out a freeview box, retuned it, and it could only pick up BBC channels!

And on my freeview TV, (although not retuned), the commercial channels
seemed to be missing.

What's happened to all the rest?!

Both TV and stb are a couple of years old...

Didn't you read the message on C4?
Wait until 6am, and try retuning again.

"bartc" wrote in message
m...
Haven't really been paying much attention to this, but a message on C4,
recorded on 1st Dec, said the analog signal will switch off at midnight
(in the NorthWest)

Sure enough, at 1am, there was no analog.

Dug out a freeview box, retuned it, and it could only pick up BBC
channels!

And on my freeview TV, (although not retuned), the commercial channels
seemed to be missing.

What's happened to all the rest?!

Both TV and stb are a couple of years old...

--
Bartc
Are you one of the hundreds of idiots that phoned radio city to say their tv
was not working !

"bartc" wrote in message
m...
Haven't really been paying much attention to this, but a message on C4,
recorded on 1st Dec, said the analog signal will switch off at midnight
(in the NorthWest)

Sure enough, at 1am, there was no analog.

Dug out a freeview box, retuned it, and it could only pick up BBC
channels!

And on my freeview TV, (although not retuned), the commercial channels
seemed to be missing.

What's happened to all the rest?!

Both TV and stb are a couple of years old...

--
Bartc
Do a full reset/new installation.
I'm on the Winter Hill Tx & I've got all the channels.
Regards Mike.

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:55:50 GMT, "bartc" wrote:

Haven't really been paying much attention to this, but a message on C4,
recorded on 1st Dec, said the analog signal will switch off at midnight (in
the NorthWest)

Sure enough, at 1am, there was no analog.

Dug out a freeview box, retuned it, and it could only pick up BBC channels!

And on my freeview TV, (although not retuned), the commercial channels
seemed to be missing.

What's happened to all the rest?!

Both TV and stb are a couple of years old...

VM managed to drop the Internet as well as the TV channels last night
around 11pm.

Of course it was completely unrelated to digital TV switchover - it
just happened at exactly the same time.....
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"bartc" wrote in message
m...
Haven't really been paying much attention to this, but a message on C4,
recorded on 1st Dec, said the analog signal will switch off at midnight
(in the NorthWest)

Sure enough, at 1am, there was no analog.

Dug out a freeview box, retuned it, and it could only pick up BBC
channels!

Didn't you read the message on C4?
Wait until 6am, and try retuning again.

Well it was superimposed over an image of Rachel Riley putting up the
letters on Countdown, so I only briefly glanced at it.

It just seemed unlikely that a bunch of channels would all disappear at the
same time from both analog *and* digital.

I wouldn't be that bothered, because I normally use cable and V+ box, but I
have a dedicated HDD recorder with no built-in freeview to record Countdown.

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Bartc

On 02/12/09 11:16, bartc wrote:#

It just seemed unlikely that a bunch of channels would all disappear at
the same time from both analog *and* digital.

Unless there was, say, major re-engineering going on at the transmitter!

Andy Burns wrote:

On 02/12/09 11:16, bartc wrote:#

It just seemed unlikely that a bunch of channels would all disappear at
the same time from both analog *and* digital.

Unless there was, say, major re-engineering going on at the transmitter!

Which there was

One of the PSB muxes was available (BBC) as it was already in it's final
resting place since Nov 4th (although was interrupted a couple of times for
I assume switching breaks) but all the other muxes were being re-engineered
hence the warning to rescan around 6am.

This is why you could only get BBC channels

In actuality it all appeared finished by about 3.30am and was certainly all
sorted when I got home from work in time for BBC Breakfast

Well, without model numbers its anyone's guess.

Suspect the software has not been updated, or the aerial is wrong or the
units are just totally confused like the owner!
Brian

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"bartc" wrote in message
m...
Haven't really been paying much attention to this, but a message on C4,
recorded on 1st Dec, said the analog signal will switch off at midnight
(in the NorthWest)

Sure enough, at 1am, there was no analog.

Dug out a freeview box, retuned it, and it could only pick up BBC
channels!

And on my freeview TV, (although not retuned), the commercial channels
seemed to be missing.

What's happened to all the rest?!

Both TV and stb are a couple of years old...

--
Bartc