All posts by John Buchanan
Below are all of John Buchanan's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Yes, the TV has tuned channels 800+ to various Crystal Palace frequencies. So - this could be causing Crystal Palace switchover messages to pop up even when I am watching Bluebell Hill???
I notice it has tune good few French channels as well. When do I start getting French swutchover messages!!!!
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John Buchanan: Without doubt I am looking at BBC on channel 59 from Bluebell Hill, but getting pop up messages about Crystal Palace switchover.
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Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Wednesday 25 January 2012 8:31AM
Billericay
Wednesday 25 January 2012 8:31AM
Billericay
I am seeing these popups on my Sony Bravia KDL-32CX523 Freeview HD smart TV.
I think it retunes automatically all the time of its own volition.
It has a setting "Digital Auto Service Update" which is currently set to ON. The help page tells me this "detects and stores new digital services as they become available".
I can put up with being told about the Crystal Palace switchover, I know it doesn't affect me. I just wonder who else, less knowledgable, is getting this misleading rubbish and will retune on April 4, even though they are not required to, and it shoudld not make any difference.
Will we then start getting popups to tell us to retune in June?
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BBC channels from Bluebell Hill still popping up messages giving switchover dates as April 4 and 18.
ITV channels popping messages with correct dates in June
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"hear, hear" as to farce. This much worse than DSO. every Freeview set or box in the country has to be retuned. Who will be providing the help to all the over 75-year olds who needed help with DSO? When and how are the general public going to be told about this? I will have retune my TV, PVR and then go and do same with my father and my daughter. And to make it worse, I am away on holiday that week, as I was in June for DSO on Bluebell Hill.
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I have noticed interference on com7, particularly CBeebies HD and BBC NEWS HD. This channel seems to be lower power than the others. Atmospheric pressure very high, contributes to interference.
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This site needs updating to reflect the retune event on Bluebell Hill on 19th July
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It seems to me that the scheduled retune event did not take place on 23 October 2019.
I have retuned my devices and the channels have not changed.
The digitaluk web site is showing the old channel numbers and a retune event due in Jan - Mar 2020
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So the retune did not affect the main channels. Makes me wonder why I was getting pop-up messages for several days telling me that I would have to retune, and then my Youview box refused to operate properly unless I let it do a retune.
On top of that the local newspaper mentioned the need to retune, and I was also prompted through Facebook.
Much ado about nothing!
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Friday 13 January 2012 7:32PM
Billericay
Watching BBC1 on CH 59 from Bluebell Hill, I am being inundated with a pop up message on the screen telling me my switchover date is April 4th.
According to everrything on this web site and every where else I look, that is not correct.
Who what or whis this false and misleading information being propagated