Help - Lost All My TV Channels!

Truegho

After all this messing around with the digital switchover (bloody nuisances!), I've just found that I can no longer get any of my channels (BBC1, BBC2, ITV or Channel 4) on my TV set in my bedroom. Unlike our main TV downstairs, which has a Sky box and, as such, has had no problems getting channels following the digital switchover, my TV upstairs is completely non functional. This TV was bought a few years ago from Argos and is the old bulky cathode ray tube style.

I do have a Freeview box, but am unsure as to whether this would restore my TV channels if I attached it. My bedroom TV has a rubbishy indoor ariel, so the reception was pretty bad to begin with.

So will I now need to throw out my old bulky TV set, and get a new flat screen one? If so, can you buy them with all the digital channels tuned in?

david29dpo

Try the freeview box, there is nothing wrong with your old tele. You may need a better ariel.

macman

You've lost all the analogue channels on your old CRT TV because they have been switched off (if you are in an area that has now switched over)! As Truegho says, you can get all these back using your Freeview box, but you may well need a proper external aerial. No need for a new TV.
Your Sky-connected TV is not affected by the digital switchover, as all the channels come via satellite. Digital switchover affects terrestial broadcasts only.
If you do buy a new digital TV, you will still need to tune it at start up. This is done automatically on new sets. They cannot be pre-tuned, because the tuning required varies according to what transmitter area you are in.

mazza1970

What area do you live? If you live in the Granada area like me, the analogue signal switch off was completed on 2nd December. I have cable but in my bedroom I have a freeview box and I just had to retune it and got all my channels back.