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Well I'm glad it's not just me. I've bought a Sony TV and a Humax box in the past few months and was very pleased with both: great reception and 2 lots of the main channels to choose from. Then came retune day: I did a full retune as instructed. The TV is fine, but the reception on the Humax box for BBC1 and BBC2 is rubbish - picture and sound both breaking up and half the time, if I go to the programme guide it's not showing any details - just blank bars, so I can't select programmes to record. The alternatives in the 800s on the list are never there any more. I'm on top of the hill in Crookes and in the attic have been able to get some Freeview channels with an indoor aerial until recently, so I can't understand why there are suddenly problems. I hope it resolves after the final retune. I'm going to be very cross if I have to pay someone to sort this out, as I've had no choice in this switchover. Wish I'd stayed with Sky.

Hi, with you living up there in a good reception area your tv can find channels from more than one transmitter and it's possible that the tv has tuned itself onto the the wrong transmitter for some of the channels, the best thing to do is wait till Wednesday and do another full factory reset then you should find it tunes itself in correctly, if not the the only other way is a manual tune but you need to know what your doing and what the frequency numbers are for your required transmitter. Hope this helps, ps this also go's for any type of freeview receiver

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We've got a small flat screen in our caravan at chapel st leonards, we've had a new digital Ariel installed, we've retuned, no probs except we haven't got any radio channels...any help please..:)

 

I stayed in a caravan last week which only had a few channels on freeview, when I examined the setup, it was simply a matter of the aerial connector to the freeview box being loose, I simply tightened it up, re-tuned and got all the channels.

 

Something this simple is easily overlooked, so before seeking help, check that all connections are correct & tight.

 

hope this helps

 

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I stayed in a caravan last week which only had a few channels on freeview, when I examined the setup, it was simply a matter of the aerial connector to the freeview box being loose, I simply tightened it up, re-tuned and got all the channels.

 

Something this simple is easily overlooked, so before seeking help, check that all connections are correct & tight.

 

hope this helps

 

Crosser.

 

A bit like the 64k ram upgrades on your ZX81 then??

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Other tv i have in kitchen found 84 services loads missing, main tv in living room only found 52, i have 2 seperate Digital Ariels pointing same way both same tv's but only 52 services. this is after 5 re-tunes same result each time.

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