Thursday, December 03, 2009

Who Ate the Postman?


I had to retune seven Freeview TVs last night - one of which was so recalcitrant that it asked you to select the channel numbers for all 90 stations. At least three of them had the same chip inside so despite having widely-differing outer casings and makes, they all showed exactly the same menus. The problem here (and I am sure I explained this last time we had to re tune all those weeks ago) is that the new Welsh Multiplexers for Freeview are as strong as the English ones and because they have lower channel numbers, get in first on the list of stations, so we get BBC one and two from Wales with BBC one and two from the Granada region up in the 800s. It is useful that the manual tune allows you to enter the individual channel numbers for each multiplexer, thus avoiding the multiple channel issues. Pity the digital text does not work as well as it used to do. Still, everyone is sort-of happy. Kids had no problems with the 70s channels which is obviously the most important thing.

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