How come I don't get this channel?

hieveryone

My mum has just yelled to me to turn the TV on upstairs to see a film that's on Film 4 - so I scroll to channel 15 like she said only to find I don't have it?

I have a Tesco TV that has Freeview built in, but it jumps from 14 to 16. I've checked the Freeview website and I should get this channel?

I've also tried to re-tune the TV, but still no channel 15.

Any ideas?

Thanks

moonrakerz

Have you stepped through all the channels to see if your TV has allocated it a different channel number ?

hieveryone

Yes, I've looked through them all - just seems strange that the TV downstairs gets it and upstairs doesn't?!

jem16

Does both upstairs and downstairs get its channels from the same aerial feed?

keith1950

Hi, you say you have stepped through the channels.....have you actually tried selecting by pressing 1 then 5 quickly, some tvs have an option to miss some channels when scrolling through !

Starfleet1

It's certain to be a signal strength thing. If both your TV's feed from one aerial it's likely not supplying enough signal to your set. You may find you can get it after the downstairs set is not using this channel. If not...do you have a dvd recorder plugged into your upstairs television and the aerial feeding the set takes the signal through the dvd first before it gets to your TV. If so, make sure your dvd is set to standby to allow maximum signal strength to pass to the television. Note: do not switch off your dvd just make sure it is on standby.

keith1950

Yes, but if it were signal there would be a whole multiplex of 5 , 6 or 7 channels missing , not just one channel ???.

Kurtis_Blue

Starfleet1 wrote: »

You may find you can get it after the downstairs set is not using this channel..

Thats not how it works.
Work back from the TV checking connections if you think all is OK you could try an inline booster.

keith1950

As previously explained,with freeview, if its only one channel then its not the signal.

hieveryone

Hi everyone -

Thanks for the advice so far. My TV is 'plugged' into the outside aerial, as is the downstairs TV - both TV's upstairs don't get that channel - do you think the signal is overloaded?

My TV has a DVD player built in so no point in buying another box? The TV downstairs does have a DVD recorded hooked up to it so maybe that gets a better signal?

Kurtis_Blue

http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/freeviewchannels.html

Check the above link and see how many other channels you are missing, I imagine it is more than film4.