Re-tune your TV?

[661-Pete]

We use Freeview. As it happens we watch very little these days, mostly news and weather (both of which can be got on the internet of course).

But last night we turned on only to get the message "No Signal". Well, I spent a while fiddling about, check if the aerial lead had got pulled out at the set or the wall; tried powering things off and on a few times, went outside to see if the aerial had come off the roof (improbably). No joy. So today I was up in the loft checking the cable (was a bit worried that a mouse might have gnawed through it). Still no joy. Turned on again: "No signal".

Looked on the BBC website and no reports of any malfunctions at the transmitter end.

Finally dug up this little bit of info, deeply buried on the BBC website and not at all easy to find. Re-tuned TV. Problem solved.

My gripe is - if there was any publicity about it, we missed it all. Re-tuning one's receiver is not something one expects to have to do every day - when the big switch-over to digital-only happened a few years ago, there was almighty fuss about it, with offers to send technicians around to people's homes to re-tune for them, etc. etc..... So why no warning, this time? They just silently change the channels without telling anyone.

Oh well - once bitten... as they say. Will know for next time.

End of gripe.

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
Signal has been dropping out for a second or two two days running.............

Anyway does not your device retune every night etc...............automatically....

[661-Pete]

Anyway does not your device retune every night etc...............automatically....

No. It's an early-generation device (separate box, feeding into an old analogue TV) and doesn't have any clever stuff like that in it - I was unaware that more modern sets do that. If so, it would be a nuisance to us, if it were to obstinately re-install all the junk channels that I have to carefully edit out after each 'search'....

We have been constantly toying with the idea of getting a more modern TV but have so far resisted: it's hardly worth it for the amount of use we make. Moreover a widescreen wouldn't 'fit' in our living room so well. The current set stands in a corner - very much in the manner of old CRT type sets back in the good old days....

[mjr]

My gripe is - if there was any publicity about it, we missed it all. Re-tuning one's receiver is not something one expects to have to do every day - when the big switch-over to digital-only happened a few years ago, there was almighty fuss about it, with offers to send technicians around to people's homes to re-tune for them, etc. etc..... So why no warning, this time?

I don't watch freeview much (I have a satellite set which gives even more watchable channels, but not all of the ones on freeview) and even I'd seen the pop-up message warning me that a retune would soon be required. Had you not put the TV on BBC/ITV/4/5 in a week or two?

Two more years of retunes are planned. See https://ukfree.tv/article/1107052530/Of ... le_201720_ for schedule.

[random37]

There's nothing on anyway!

[Mick F]

I heard on the radio this morning that Room 101 has been going for 24years.
I hear Casualty is still running too.
Good grief.

No wonder we don't have a telly anymore!