New Freeview Channel Numbers

"Richard Watkinson" wrote in message
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Alan wrote:

In message , Dickie Mint
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AJM wrote:
I retuned this evening and thought at first that I had lost BBC News
24. However, after working my way through all the channels I found it
had moved from Channel 40 to Channel 80. For my personal reference I
have made a list of the channels as they are available wef 18th
October, 2005. I have copied it below as it may prove useful to
others receiving transmissions from Black Hill in Central Scotland.

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Where have you been ?! :-) Mind you there's been little discussion of
this on usenet.

Who has informed the 4 million Freeview users who don't read this or
other net based forums of the change?

Interesting point.

It has been regularly announced on BBC7 with the reccommendation that
you have a look at page 9991 on BBCi for more information.

I don't know enough about Logical Channel Numbers so I will attempt to
bull**** that digiboxes will continue to pick up the services on all
muxes with the LCN stored in the box until you do a rescan. That was
certainly the case with my Pace Twin but it may depend on the software
within individual boxes.

To the best of my knowledge the LCN is just an identifier carried
within the digital signal for the benefit of the end user. Other codes
within the signal do the real business. This guess might explain why
all behaved as if nothing had changed until I did a rescan.



--
Richard Watkinson

Treasurer Sheffield Folk Festival

http://www.sheffieldfolkfestival.org/

Turn left where the chip shop used to be.

I have just rescanned my 3 OnD Philips boxes - found 87 channels from
Craigkelly) - including 301-3 (which an earlier poster says are BBCi). I
use one for radio (radio channels are on 192k routinely on DTT rather than
128k on DAB) so I had to connect it to a TV to see the menus. Radio 3 is
now 703 rather than 73. I did see a message on More4 - and there is a long
piece on BBC 9991.

Patrick Nethercot (ngs) wrote:
Richard Watkinson wrote:


I can't say but did you do a channel rescan?

Yes. BBC 4 still on 10.

Toppy PVR ?

If so, perform a factory reset (you'll lose your timer settings etc)
and then rescan.

ngs Patrick Nethercot wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote:


Yes. BBC 4 still on 10.

Toppy PVR ?

Yes

If so, perform a factory reset (you'll lose your timer settings etc)
and then rescan.

But it's working OK (even BBC). If it ain't broke...

It will still work yes, it's only needed if you want the channels on
the new numbers.

However surely you've downloaded Topfield's new firmware (issued at
17:30 last night) as a fix for last week's BBC MHEG crashes ? If so
you should have performed a factory reset anyway ?

Dickie Mint wrote:
AJM wrote:
I retuned this evening and thought at first that I had lost BBC News
24. However, after working my way through all the channels I found
it had moved from Channel 40 to Channel 80. For my personal
reference I have made a list of the channels as they are available
wef 18th October, 2005. I have copied it below as it may prove
useful to others receiving transmissions from Black Hill in Central
Scotland.

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Where have you been ?! :-) Mind you there's been little discussion of
this on usenet. Basically they've reworked the Logical Channel
Numbers (LCN) to be three figure to allow for more genres.

News on :

http://www.freeview.co.uk/channelcha...channelchanges


Much talk on Digital spy :

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...d.php?t=291680

Sagem IDT602 at 2100 last night: "new stations detected on the flow" when
switched on. Automatically rescanned. Basically ended up with the same as
Richard Watkinson's list (but from Midhurst).

--
Jeff
(cut "thetape" to reply)

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Who has informed the 4 million Freeview users who don't read this or
other net based forums of the change?

That was one of the points frequently made in the several DS threads!
The advice can only be to complain to the Broadcasters.

Radio Times sort of hints at it, on CBBC for example it lists "channel
30", "70 from Tuesday"!

In my days at the beeb I used to suggest that a little trail be made
advertising the change, if only locally.

"Dickie mint" wrote in message
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Who has informed the 4 million Freeview users who don't read this or
other net based forums of the change?

That was one of the points frequently made in the several DS threads!
The advice can only be to complain to the Broadcasters.

Radio Times sort of hints at it, on CBBC for example it lists "channel
30", "70 from Tuesday"!

Actually it has a message at the bottom of page 97.

--
Max Demian

Max Demian wrote:
"Dickie mint" wrote in message
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Who has informed the 4 million Freeview users who don't read this or
other net based forums of the change?

That was one of the points frequently made in the several DS threads!
The advice can only be to complain to the Broadcasters.

Radio Times sort of hints at it, on CBBC for example it lists "channel
30", "70 from Tuesday"!


Actually it has a message at the bottom of page 97.

Wow!

Max Demian wrote:

Radio Times sort of hints at it, on CBBC for example it lists "channel
30", "70 from Tuesday"!

Actually it has a message at the bottom of page 97.

"Beware of the Leopard"...

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:20:45 +0100, Dickie mint
wrote:

Who has informed the 4 million Freeview users who don't read this or
other net based forums of the change?

In my days at the beeb I used to suggest that a little trail be made
advertising the change, if only locally.

I bet that went down like a lead balloon....

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:20:45 +0100, Dickie mint
wrote:

Who has informed the 4 million Freeview users who don't read this or
other net based forums of the change?

BBCi has detailed information in its 'help' section - printed in white
on a light blue background so it's almost illegible.