Digital switch over

[branno]

digital tv switch over is now happening all round the uk... if your tv region has been fully switched over, has it improved the quality or is it still breaking up and freezing.. my region is still under going the switch over, so im not sure if it has improved...

[Arthur Little]

Tbh, Rob ... I've never fully understood the reasons for the switchover. :NoNo: I'm sure many old folk are finding it difficult to re-tune the various channels - I know I did :rolleyes: - and even yet, have to [occasionally] enlist the help of my next-door neighbour. :doh

[grahamw48]

I'll be helping my mother out with this soon.

(It was her 84th birthday today :)).

Just wish we could persuade her to embrace the internet.
She would find it so interesting.

[branno]

anologue was never a problem but this bloody digital palava is so irritating.. esp if uve suscribed to a big event and it breaks up or just freezes...

[Doc Alan]

Happy birthday to your mother Graham :xxgrinning--00xx3:
The service SHOULD be improved because when the existing analogue TV signal is switched off the replacement digital signal is stronger.
There is a "Switchover Help Scheme" for those 75 ( + ) year olds not fortunate enough to have a helpful son ( or daughter ).
Despite the publicity, not everyone seems to know about this switchover :omg: There's more information on www.digitaluk.co.uk/postcodechecker :)

[branno]

Tbh, Rob ... I've never fully understood the reasons for the switchover. :NoNo: I'm sure many old folk are finding it difficult to re-tune the various channels - I know I did :rolleyes: - and even yet, have to [occasionally] enlist the help of my next-door neighbour. :doh

it took me over 1 hour to find the retunning button last week on the remote haha now i cannot recieve bbc 1 or 2 .... :Help1:

[Arthur Little]

I'll be helping my mother out with this soon.

(It was her 84th birthday today :)).

Just wish we could persuade her to embrace the internet.
She would find it so interesting.

:xxgrinning--00xx3: ... good man, Graham. I used to help MINE with small electrical jobs after my dad [an electrician by trade] passed away.

Btw, :birthday: to your mum ... it's great you still have her around. :)

[branno]

wishing ur mum all the very best also graham... i so enjoy listening to my grand parents child hood days.. and how they enjoyed life even during severe hardships.. and nightly air raids.. they can still laugh about so much they endured in those days... :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Arthur Little]

Funnily enough :rolleyes: ... it was MY daughter's *42nd birthday today - which means your mum would've been celebrating *that very birthday the day my daughter was born.

[Steve.r]

Most newer tv's that are digital are easy to retune, or update tune. Just go to your menu or setup and find something that resembles 'auto tuning' or 'auto digital setup' and hit the button, it sorts it out for you.
We went over to full digital last year and the signal and programe choice has improved. I dont have Sky or any other cable, but I always have more than enough to watch.

[Doc Alan]

it took me over 1 hour to find the retunning button last week on the remote haha now i cannot recieve bbc 1 or 2 .... :Help1:
With respect, that suggests you haven't done it correctly. There are two stages of switchover. At Stage 1 the analogue BBC Two signal is switched off permanently. At the same time, BBC digital channels including BBC Two extend to reach all areas.
Two weeks after Stage 1, the remaining analogue channels are switched off and the remaining digital channels become available in all areas ( Stage 2 ).

[grahamw48]

Thanks for the kind words...on behalf of mum folks. :xxgrinning--00xx3:
She is very fit and healthy, and manages fine living on her own, but with visits from her offspring every week or two. (My sister is a Health Visitor anyway).

We have cable at our house, but I also have 3 other TVs which are not connected to it, one of which has a Freeview box.

Remotes all over the place. :rolleyes:

[Arthur Little]

it took me over 1 hour to find the retunning button last week on the remote haha now i cannot recieve bbc 1 or 2 .... :Help1:

:doh ... that's more or less how it was/is for me too. My previous TV set had been working perfectly well ... albeit my son-in-law had repeatedly forewarned me that it would cease to function altogether after the switchover to digital in 2010. And then my son's inlaws offered me theirs - a newer, widescreen model - which they'd replaced with one of those latest, ultra modern flat screen affairs when his father-in-law was confined to the house during his recovery from a slight stroke in early 2008. Problem IS, it came complete with two remote control devices - each with its own complicated set of pushbuttons - but no Manual of Instructions! :anerikke: ... so it's been a case of trial & error for me ever since; thankfully, neither Myrna nor myself watch much television. :NoNo:

[grahamw48]

You may find a copy of the instruction manual on the internet (google).

Amazing what can be found. :)

[imagine]

there had to be a switch over to digital from analouge, in order to keep up with competition such as sky,
through digital you can squeeze a lot more information and channels through it,

old analouge tvs will still work by using a digibox, your old tv becomes a monitor for the digibox which is the reciever,

[Arthur Little]

But there again ... WHEN we do ... I frequently have to switch on anything up to half an hour before the programme I/we want to see, and proceed to bugger about randomly with BOTH remotes ... taking "pot luck" as it were. Actually, this is a slight exaggeration - but I just wish sometimes the *powers that be ['scuse *pun] would leave things alone! :cwm24:

[Arthur Little]

Most newer tv's that are digital are easy to retune, or update tune. Just go to your menu or setup and find something that resembles 'auto tuning' or 'auto digital setup' and hit the button, it sorts it out for you.
We went over to full digital last year and the signal and programe choice has improved. I dont have Sky or any other cable, but I always have more than enough to watch.

:iagree: the signal, picture quality and choice of programmes have all improved significantly ... and we now have a range of 'Freeview' channels in addition. But one of the remote controls has so many coloured buttons & different symbols - which I find difficult to comprehend without an instruction guide! Like you, though, Steve, we don't have either Sky or cable ... NOR do we want them.

[Arthur Little]

You may find a copy of the instruction manual on the internet (google).

Amazing what can be found. :)

Yes :rolleyes: ... I suppose it's possible, Graham ... :68711_thanx: ... definitely worth a looksee. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[mickcant]

As I said in anouther thread, I record everything I watch so I can skip the adverts:xxgrinning--00xx3:

I love gadgets and am hoping for delivery today of a Humax HDR-FOX T2 Freeview recorder with a 1 TB Hard drive:Cuckoo:
Mick.:)

[KeithD]

It didn't make any difference where I live as the only analogue channel available was S4C :icon_lol:

[grahamw48]

As I said in anouther thread, I record everything I watch so I can skip the adverts:xxgrinning--00xx3:

I love gadgets and am hoping for delivery today of a Humax HDR-FOX T2 Freeview recorder with a 1 TB Hard drive:Cuckoo:
Mick.:)

I bought a Hitachi one in 2007, for quite a lot of money at the time.

Damned thing packed up about 6 months ago. :cwm3: