Switchover..... Pffft...

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Hi Guys,

Well, not sure if Swtichover has fully happened in my area yet... (pickup from the Crystal Palace transmitter). However I have lost all my Analogue channels now and seemed to have gained LOADS of Freeview channels.... like upto 90 odd.

However, like my previous thread here...

http://forums.tvcatchup.com/showthre...rts&highlight=

Where I was having colour issues, due to poor / weak DVB tuner inside my TV. I had kinda hoped it might of got better once all the analogue channels had gone, and Freeview boosted.... (as said, unless i am acting to early on this) I still get odd colour issues...

ALSO, summit that happened previously and again thought might be fixed with a stronger signal is ITV2 seems to keep bouncing up and down, juddering. But it only appears to be that channel....?

I shall wait till after tonight as I assume the 18th Switchover to fully taken place then. However if not, shall I still contact Tesco's....

As this has been an ongoing arguement with Tesco's for months... like half way through its warranty. Yet they kept turning around saying nothing was wrong, and so nothing got fixed... and now its fallen out of its warranty by about 2 to 3 weeks....

However I shall play the EU law, which grants me another year... or the Sales of Goods Act which covers for 6x years...

Grrrrr.....

Cheers, Freeview+

[37408]

yeah switchover is a bit of a con and farce...they say that channels would be boosted and we will still get the channels that we had with analogue, wrong, the picture is weak and pixalated with squeaks (damn rats in TV again lol) and we DONT get half the channels at all. mum lost BBC and ITV and had to spent ages retuning and retuning, as well as put up with no signal and the update thing all the time when it had just been updated. it still is sometimes a very poor service, we had better signal with analogue and its the same transmitter up on emley moor....very pood do indeed.

[TVC_James]

Crystal Palace switchover was completed by 6am today

[Freeview+]

Hi TVC_James,

Oh great, so this is the best its gonna be / get then?? (thanks for the info by the way... lol)

Well, it looks like I shall be continueing my viewing of TVC online even more so after the switchover now. As on my new TV it looks sh*t. Looks like I am viewing summit from 1990s Nintendo NES console, blocky/chunky, like a low quality web stream (and this is OTA, not net). On a small portable that has Freeview built in, it doesnt even pickup a sodding channel....

And on my old tuner that I purchased 3x years or so ago.... paid like £250 for it, and within weeks, when Freeview kept changing the frequency and basically never worked again (darn if I was gonna throw that out, like I did previous tuners) this one seems to work the best now, but only when hooked up to my old Tube based TV... lol

Not impressed by Freeview at all.....

[Jamesay]

Have you tried a signal booster?

[lou1402]

From what I read the increase in signal strenghth is only to take place after ALL the regions are completed, this will not be until after september 2012, if there are still issues after this date then maybe complaints should be voiced towards the main broadcasters (BBC &ITV) to do something about it.

[TVC_James]

http://www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051986 suggests it's now high power, not sure if it goes higher

[JasonFWard]

I've read both that power will be increased for everyone after the switch over is complete for everyone, that way no cross service area interference, and that it is being done region by region immediately after that region switches.

I suspect the engineers explained to their managers, who in turn explained to PR people, who in turn explained to journalists, who in turn wrote articles for us to read, I suspect that we'd need a engineer whose involved before we really understood or got a proper answer and I also suspect during the whole process knobs are being twitched adjusting all sorts of things and that that process won't stop until quite sometime after all the analogue signals have been turned off.

[gareth86]

Hoping the switchover significantly increases the signal in my area. Honestly it's so bad. We get a call from my nan every day telling us her TV has broken again, bless her lol

[Freeview+]

Hi Guys,

Thanks so much for all your input, it is really useful and interesting to hear. So there may still be hope yet then? As it would appear there could still be fine tuning to be done during the switching over...?? I gues for me, my part is done here for now... until Sept, but that is far to long to wait.... It also comes down to my TV, which I purchased sadly from Tesco's and is an ongoing issue. Currently still waiting to hear back from them, but despite all the TVs we have in the house, this is the only one to be majorly affected by so any things, due to signal, to functionality of the TV itself. Its been going on ever since I bought it, and come switch over, I am still using TVC as my main source of TV in my room as picture quality is so bad. I can watch it on my smaller TV (good old CRT Tube based, over 15yrs old) which still gives a vast superior picture than my new TV. But to watch stuff on the big screen, I have to stream it...

I hope, and look forward to a mega fully RADIO-ACTIVE signal boost come Sept 2012, and hope it sorts out all freeview issues. But for now, I dont hold much confidence in the roll out. And much prefered the picture quality of analogue, vastly better than Freeview here...

@ Gareth86, lol, bless.... I can just imagine that... Its just like my next door neighbour (bless him, in his 80s) hasnt got a clue what the digital or HD era is all about... and constantly asks for help, saying things are broken or not ready... when it really is!! lol

Cheers, Freeview