Half my TV channels have disappered - why?

"Nthkentman" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@bt.com:

Thanks, but I've done that twice, but with no improvements.

However, today, most of my channels are accessible again, although some of their signals aren;t 100%.

I'm wondering if it was just atmospheric conditions. I remember learning that radio waves are affected considerably by atmospheric conditions and the ionosphere, etc..

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Al N
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Martin Brown wrote in news:7T5is.2737 $ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe05.iad:

Thanks, but that was the first thing I tried and it actually seemed to make matters worse. I tried again, later in the evening and got most of the channels back onto the system, but most still remained inaccessible.

Today, for some reason, things a much improved. Must have been atmospheric conditions. It was a bit windy yesterday. I don't know if that would have any effect. I can confirm that the arial is fixed securely.

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Al N

Where are you, and have you checked your postcode here?:-

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is also info about missing stations accessible from the home page of the site.

I've also found that some set top boxes aren't particularly good at re-tuning, even after using their factory reset.

It often needs a double re-tune, once immediately after switch-off, and again a few days later, when the new transmitters have been brought on-line. The service in the period between the two re-tunes is acknowledged to be patchy.

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John Williamson

John Williamson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:

Thanks, John. I think that must be it - because all my channels are restored today. Hope it stays that way!

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Al N

Was there ever anything on them that was worth watching anyway?

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Jules Richardson

Jules Richardson wrote in news:k6bi96 $kmq$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Sound like you might be sorted. Another option is to unplug the aerial - do a re-tune. It will clear all the channels as there will be no signal. Then plug in the aerial and do a re-tune.

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DerbyBorn

While that works for some (most?) tv's and set top boxes, on some Sony TV's doing it like that makes a complete balls up of the channel numbering as it retains all the existing ones on their usual allocations and puts the ones following a retune at channels 800+ even tough they have the same PID.

Deleting unwanted channels is also a very slow process as each one needs about three key presses and their is no multiple select. Couldn't find an easy way to do a 'factory reset' either.

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The Other Mike

They make "factory reset" deliberately hard to find so that your kids can't "accidentally" do it. You will probably need to consult the manual (or online if you have lost it) to find down which maze of twisty little menus all alike they have hidden master reset.

It is almost as annoying on the Panasonic where it tramples over your preferred channels at every retune so in the end you give up and live with where they happen to land. It seems few manufacturers think about how their TVs will get used in the home (or if they do their engineers have decided to make life unnecessarily difficult for end users).

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Martin Brown

TVs have been made complicated by the need to have two types of tuners. Hopefully things will start to improve (no CEEFAX either) now we only have DVB.

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DerbyBorn

No excuse for having Kafka design the user interface though is it?

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Martin Brown

You mean there IS a user interface?

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The Natural Philosopher

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