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Channels breaking up more following guide update
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I live in Swindon, and am picking up from the Mendip transmitter for most channels. Some of these recent channels, such as POP and Made in Bristol are of poor quality due to what I think is that they are of a less powerful frequency, yet this morning BBC One is breaking up on and off. Not in grid form, but rather the sound will stutter and a line of blue or green will be seen covering a portion of the screen. The issues are not occurring on ITV (or less so) or the others, but they are still a problem with both the main news and Points West. In the past, issues with transmission were very rare. So is this a problem with the connection into my TV, is it just a bad day or has some of the frequency range for certain channels been deducted following the numbering change (BBC One is still at 1). Or is it at their end? The settings confirm that the quality if BBC One is at 10 (highest).
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What may have happened is that you have picked up a distant transmitter during the retune and your TV has allocated those to the "normal" numbers and your correct local transmitter to numbers up in the 800s. So check to see if there are any duplicate channels up there.
But nothing else about the way the channels are broadcast has changed. So in theory if you were receiving the channels perfectly before the retune you should also be receiving them perfectly afterwards.
where did you hear that one from ? and how can it affect Freeview and DAB ?
and where does Vodafone slot in ? - it all sounds very strange
you called it a ' nationwide fault ' when it sounds that it may be a local fault
Article on A516 Digital about it.
http://www.a516digital.com/2014/09/fault-affects-bbc-tv-and-dab-services.html?m=1
Retuned tonight and all seems ok, so looks like it may be fixed now.
OK - just to clarify - I rang Arqiva yesterday to report the DAB problem, as we noticed the local service was either down or really poor.
The guy at Arqiva told me it was a nationwide problem, and was due to a fault at Vodaphone, who now handle the distribution for the transmitters. He also mentioned that the same fault was affecting BBC1 on Freeview, causing intermittent glitching - but BBC1 was the only TV service he mentioned.
Why don't they include the transmitter name in the region setting when you retune so you know exactly which transmitter you are tuned to?
I would only want to see the names or transmitters found during the retune, not all of them.
Probably less useful than not doing it at all - why would doing it on just a small handful of transmitters be 'useful'?.