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...
Tbh, Rob ... I've never fully understood the reasons for the switchover.I'm sure many old folk are finding it difficult to re-tune the various channels - I know I did
- and even yet, have to [occasionally] enlist the help of my next-door neighbour.
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.
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...
Happy birthday to your mother Graham
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 switchoverThere's more information on www.digitaluk.co.uk/postcodechecker
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 ....Originally Posted by Arthur Little
Tbh, Rob ... I've never fully understood the reasons for the switchover.
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.... good man, Graham. I used to help MINE with small electrical jobs after my dad [an electrician by trade] passed away.
Btw,to your mum ... it's great you still have her around.
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...
Funnily enough
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.
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
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.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 ....
Two weeks after Stage 1, the remaining analogue channels are switched off and the remaining digital channels become available in all areas ( Stage 2 ).
Thanks for the kind words...on behalf of mum folks.
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.
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 ....... so it's been a case of trial & error for me ever since; thankfully, neither Myrna nor myself watch much television.
You may find a copy of the instruction manual on the internet (google).
Amazing what can be found.
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,
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!
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.
YesYou may find a copy of the instruction manual on the internet (google).
Amazing what can be found.... definitely worth a looksee.
As I said in anouther thread, I record everything I watch so I can skip the adverts
I love gadgets and am hoping for delivery today of a Humax HDR-FOX T2 Freeview recorder with a 1 TB Hard drive
Mick.
It didn't make any difference where I live as the only analogue channel available was S4C
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I bought a Hitachi one in 2007, for quite a lot of money at the time.As I said in anouther thread, I record everything I watch so I can skip the adverts
I love gadgets and am hoping for delivery today of a Humax HDR-FOX T2 Freeview recorder with a 1 TB Hard drive
Mick.
Damned thing packed up about 6 months ago.
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