Another retune?

SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?
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Davey.

On 17/09/2012 23:36, Davey wrote:
SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

Yes, national retune, Wednesday am, EPG reshuffle.

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mb

On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:49:54 +0100
Mike Brown wrote:

On 17/09/2012 23:36, Davey wrote:
SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has
been seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed
this week. We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

Yes, national retune, Wednesday am, EPG reshuffle.


Groan! Thanks. Will it ever end?
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Davey.

In message , Mike Brown
writes
On 17/09/2012 23:36, Davey wrote:
SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

Yes, national retune, Wednesday am, EPG reshuffle.

Riveting stuff.

Dave and Yesterday swap over to 12 and 19
Really and Gold (subscription) swap over to be 17 and 20
The Food Network moves to 48 (from 49)
The Jewellery channel moves to 49 (from 60)
Local TV services are reserved 8 (England and Northern Ireland) and 45
(Wales and Scotland)
RTE1, RTE2 and TG4 are reserved 51, 52 and 53 - these start on a special
www.ukfree.tv link icon "mini multiplex" for Northern Ireland on
Wednesday 24th October 2012.
Argos TV starts on 55
Text services move to 200-224: 200 BBC Red Button; 201 Teletext
Holidays; 202 Rabbit; 203 Gay Rabbit; 204 1-2-1 Dating; 205 Mail Travel;
206 Sky Text.
MHEG services move to 225-299: 225 VISION; 226 CCTV; 227 Sports Tonight;
228 Connect 1; 229 Connect 2; 230 Connect 3; 231 Racing TV; 232 The
Space.
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Ian

This one is designed to confuse the elderly. having got them all used to the
channel numbers, they will now all be changed around on Wednesday. What it
does not say is what happens if you don't do it? also, surely in this day
and age we ought to be able to allocate whatever number we like to whichever
channel we like?

The Smart talk seems not to have any way of doing this so all of us who
have got the hang of dialling in the numbers will now find that what was on
20 is now on 17 etc, all for the hopes of someone who has a tidy mind and
wants to put like channels together. This will of course all fall apart the
next time a channel is dead and a new one is inserted which is different to
the old one.

brain

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"Davey" wrote in message
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SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?
--
Davey.

Spellchecker changed my name again I see.
Is 47 changing? after all it was picked presumably for its name agreeing
with its number, so if they ever change it to say, 69 it could have a whole
new meaning!

Brian

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This one is designed to confuse the elderly. having got them all used to
the channel numbers, they will now all be changed around on Wednesday.
What it does not say is what happens if you don't do it? also, surely in
this day and age we ought to be able to allocate whatever number we like
to whichever channel we like?

The Smart talk seems not to have any way of doing this so all of us who
have got the hang of dialling in the numbers will now find that what was
on 20 is now on 17 etc, all for the hopes of someone who has a tidy mind
and wants to put like channels together. This will of course all fall
apart the next time a channel is dead and a new one is inserted which is
different to the old one.

brain

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"Davey" wrote in message
...
SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?
--
Davey.

"Mike Brown" wrote in message
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On 17/09/2012 23:36, Davey wrote:
SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

Yes, national retune, Wednesday am, EPG reshuffle.

As a matter of interest, how do punters find out about these things? When a
transmitter such as Bilsdale has its DSO, there is loads of publicity:
adverts on hoardings in the street, leaflets to all affected houses etc. But
national retunes for changes in EPG number seem not to be publicised at all,
and you need to keep checking industry forums to find out that they are
imminent. Shame they couldn't have combined the EPG renumbering with the
first (or second) DSO for Bilsdale :-(

Why are they changing the EPG numbers? I wonder if HDD recorders, Windows
Media Centre, etc, will have the intelligence to preserve existing
recordings that have already been set: will an instruction to record on
Yesterday on 12 be modified to one to record at the same date/time but now
on 19?

In article , Brian Gaff wrote:
This one is designed to confuse the elderly. having got them all used to the
channel numbers, they will now all be changed around on Wednesday. What it
does not say is what happens if you don't do it? also, surely in this day
and age we ought to be able to allocate whatever number we like to whichever
channel we like?

I suspect I'll find that the Panasonic PVR will have forgotten its entire list
of programmes to be recorded, leaving a list with only the dates and times, no
programme titles and blank spaces for the channels, so I'll have to do a bit of
detective work, retune and enter the whole lot again.

Rod.
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OT.
Just returned from my trip to North Norfolk and for first time now it
digital only got that counties regional tv.
Never in past able to get Anglia always only reception was
Lincolnshire/Yorkshire on analogue.
So at least will better for locals as well as caravanners.
Regards
David



"Davey" wrote in message
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SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?
--
Davey.

"Mike Brown" wrote in message
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On 17/09/2012 23:36, Davey wrote:
SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

Yes, national retune, Wednesday am, EPG reshuffle.


Will numbers then make sense with other forms of TV transmissions EG.
Freesat?
Lounge TV is Freesat other rooms Freeview yes is very confusing for my wife.
Regards
David