On Tuesday 29th July, a transmitter update for Freeview viewers in Cheshire, Greater London, Lancashire and South Yorkshire will break a number of older Freeview boxes. This update has already knocked out boxes in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Tyne Tees, Border, Granada, Anglia, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Devon and Cornwall.
Freeview set-top boxes from Bush, Daewoo, Labgear, Triax and Portland can’t cope with a transmitter upgrade that’s creeping across the UK. Affected boxes can’t cope with the changes made at transmitter sites, and can’t be upgraded, so the official advice is to buy a new box.
Note also that Top Up TV Anytime boxes appear to be affected, and the advice is not to perform a “rescan” until a patch is made available.
Find out more at www.frequencycast.co.uk/freeviewlandfill.html
August 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Does this affect some IDTV’s particulaly
Sony Bravia IDTV
August 6th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Same question as above, will this affect IDTV’s…….mines a Finlux
August 28th, 2008 at 9:07 am
with regards the Sony see
http://sonycic.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/sonycic.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=369&p_created=1216219189
you have to Thank ‘ simon ‘ for that link
also read
http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/blog/2008/07/more-freeview-boxes-become-obsolete.html#comment-5421
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Not sure is this is related.
My Freeview Box – DigiHome DVB915 has started to crash (and then restarts) when pressing the 0 button while using BBCi. Also randomly restarts and looses sound.