New Channels on Freeview

mymatebob

mrsv05 wrote: »

hi, never readf this thread before but hoping you can help (only taking up room). i have an old sky box (we have sky + now). can i get the old box to work in my sons room? if so how? i thought it was useless but kept as a spare for some reason. thanks.

See post number 81

mrsv05

inb? sorry i must be having a doris day.

mymatebob

LNB

The thing that sits on the arm of your Sat Dish
(Low-noise block)

tobybowes

UPDATE 08/03/09:

You may of been prompted to rescan (replace all channels) on your freeview/topuptv box again. If not its best to do it anyways (it can do no harm). As far as i can tell it doesnt add anymore channels but Film4 moves to channel 15 and a few of the frequencies of the other channels have been altered meaning a better picture/sound quality more of the time!

CRYPTO2009

Regarding good guides that are free, there are probably many out there, but one I'd recommend is www.tvguide.co.uk, which is always up-to-date, user-friendly, and very detailed. Try it out.

JoseChungsDoomsday

welshdeedee wrote: »

CNN is only available from 9pm

so i've just noticed.. whats the point in that?!

o_t_e

tobybowes wrote: »

UPDATE 08/03/09:

You may of been prompted to rescan (replace all channels) on your freeview/topuptv box again. If not its best to do it anyways (it can do no harm)

99 times out of a 100 that's the case but tell that to the poor sods whose freeview boxes died after a rescan:

http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/blog/2008/11/faulty-freeview-featured-on-watchdog.html

tobybowes

o_t_e wrote: »

99 times out of a 100 that's the case but tell that to the poor sods whose freeview boxes died after a rescan:

http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/blog/2008/11/faulty-freeview-featured-on-watchdog.html

That is an unfortunate downside to the updates but everything has its day at the moment and i expect more boxes to stop working up to and even for a year or two after the complete switch off till theyve worked out all the bugs. The good thing is though that freeview boxes used to be upwards of £100, you can now pick them up for less than £10 and in some cases theyre free or built into other equipment.

For what i get on the terrestrial channels if my box ever packed in, as upset as i would be (its the TOPUPTV+ DVR they advise you to get on theyre website) i would go out and buy another similar model. Ive had my box less than a year and its the first piece of equipment ive ever bought which gets worse for every update it automatically downloads.

I would advise to update and replace old incompatible equipment, but if wary dont update....at the same time if you dont want new updates/channels why did you ever purchase the box.

liquidlives

A new channel appears to have been added to Freeview: Russia Today. It's only available from 6am to 8am though! Billed as: the first 24/7 English-language news channel bring the Russian view on global news.

johnt22

tobybowes wrote: »

I noticed whilst watching Dave (channel 19 on freeview, freeview+, TopUpTV, TopUpTV+, TopUpTV Anytime, etc) last night that there was a notice in the top left corner of the screen saying Dave+1 now on channel 25!

After a quick re-scan for channels sure enough it detected it aswell as a few other new interactive channels such as smileTV2 (Channel 46), DirectGov (Channel 106 and really useful for those without internet), CNN International (Channel 84) and some not so useful channels such as QUEST (Channel 47 - Coming Soon apparently), SuperCasino (Ch48), and 1-2-1 Dating (Ch104).

To rescan your box you should (similar but not always the same for all boxes so you may need to get your instructions out) -

1. Press Menu on your remote
2. Select Setup and press ok/enter on your remote
3. Select Scan For Channels
4. Select Replace all channels (most boxes skip this step now and replace all automatically)
5. Wait a few minutes and the scan should be complete and you'll have all your new channels

Note: TV Guides can take up to 7 days to come up to date on the new channels after the update but this will happen automatically like usual whilst your box is on standby over night


Hope this helps for those who hadnt noticed!

http://www.freeview.co.uk/freeview/Channels
http://www.topuptv.com/

Also if you search the forums im sure you'll find somewhere a free downloadable weekly tv guide if you dont like going through the digital one on the box and dont like paying for magazines (which usually have on select channels and times in).

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UPDATE 08/03/09:

You may of been prompted to rescan (replace all channels) on your freeview/topuptv box again. If not its best to do it anyways (it can do no harm). As far as i can tell it doesnt add anymore channels but Film4 moves to channel 15 and a few of the frequencies of the other channels have been altered meaning a better picture/sound quality more of the time!

If you haven't found it already http://tvguide.co.uk/ presents an online TV guide and allows you to select display of Freeview channels only.