View Full Version : Freeview Channels On Air!!
kevenh
09-10-2002, 10:20 AM
Like MonkeyDonkey in an earlier thread, I did a 'store channels' last night.
The channel list has changed to one more like the final offerring.
The Radio channels are the main change. That is, they've started to broadcast!
The other new channels mostly say 'available soon'...
(editited text shown in a new colour :blush: )
MartinImber
09-10-2002, 11:17 AM
Radio 6 is quite good!
However my TV keeps choking on a rescan so I have to manually tidy up
I mean it pulled in all 6 Sutton muxes and 2 off Brosgrove!
MonkeyDonkey
09-10-2002, 12:28 PM
Yup it's great, it would appear that ITV news is now broadcasting 24hrs as of today, was still the ITN logo last night when I went through them all at about 12:30.
I've got a few channels repeated up in the 800's but I expect thats due to the increased signal strength.
I wonder if the 30th is just a date by which they want all the channels to be up, and perhaps we'll see them appearing one by one (especially the existing channels from sky etc).
I think some of the channels in the 800's are duplicates at the old 64 qam setting. cbeebies, cbbc, BBC Choice and BBC Four at the correct station numbers are the 16 qam versions.
regards
cow
Tejpal
09-10-2002, 3:07 PM
Im quite confused about the freeview thing.
Do the boxed you buy now have BBC freeview or someother free view. does free view use a card ?
kevenh
09-10-2002, 4:24 PM
You don't need a card.
Sorry, don't know what branding freeview will have on new set top boxes (& DTT tellys), but my box still has OnDigital branding...
MartinImber
10-10-2002, 12:40 PM
Branding
My TV has a little Sony badge on the front
The DTVA has a Pace background screen
The Dodgy box has lurid green Ondigital Logos