freeview probs

naughtyneighbour

hiya all

i was happily watching neighbours ( yer i know...v sad !! ) yesterday and my freeview signal went off!!...changed to normal telly and signal is fine so no probs with the arial...been retuning my freeview since then and its saying ' no channels detected' tried another freeview box and thats the same....any ideas?

NN

Browntoa

weather used to degrade my signal sometimes making all my freeview channels vanish, especially when it was hot

naughtyneighbour

hiya and ty for the reply....yer we had a pretty bad storm here yesterday but my normal signal is fine so presumed it wasnt a reception prob

oh well...looks like im stuck with the normal five channels for a while

Browntoa

and when it rains hard all the Sky channels somethimes go lol

robnye

have you tried turning the freeview box off at the socket for 10 mins, then restart. sometimes they need a full reset especially after stormy weather...

either that or have you noticed a new building (bigger than yours) being built nearby.... perhaps they are blocking your signal.....

BethanT

Are you in one of the following areas? Cheshire, Greater London, Lancashire or South Yorkshire

If so, and you have one of the following boxes you may be affected by a transmission change which took place yesterday.

Set- top boxes
Daewoo DS608P
Labgear DTT100
Triax DVB 2000T
Portland DP100
Combined set-top box and video recorder
Daewoo SV900
Bush IDVCR01

You can find further details and contact numbers for the manufacturers on the Freeview website:
http://www.freeview.co.uk/help/faq/id104963

Hope that helps

naughtyneighbour

hiya


thanks bethant...yes im in cheshire and have a daewoo box....but i also tried my daughters freeview box and that didnt work either...just checked the link you sent and hers isnt listed ..technika AESTBS7

oh well...looks like im freeview shopping today.....anyone know where there going cheep? lol

Inactive

Surely if your Daughters Freeview Receiver isn't working, along with your own, chances are it isn't the receivers, unless of course you have had a power surge from a storm, highly unlikely to wipe out 2 receivers.

More likely your TV aerial.

naughtyneighbour

hi inactive

i presumed it wasnt my tv aerial as im still getting normal channels with no probs

espresso

Perhaps your transmitter is having engineering works done at the moment?

oldagetraveller

Possibly not related but my "Freeview" went a bit "strange" yesterday but only the sound disappearing on ch 5 and a couple of others. The signal has been breaking up occasionally recently but I can put this down to high atmospheric pressure during the summer we just had! There is a name for this which escapes me but it's the signal bouncing back and getting jumbled up with the analogue transmission, something like that anyway.
Do you know which transmitter you receive from?
Check here for any possible problems due to maintenance after entering your postcode and finding your transmitter etc. http://www.ukfree.tv/transmitters.php