[mickymcd]

If you or your family can receive help from the bbc's digital switch over scheme and you have an installer coming keep a firm eye on there install practice horror stories are rife at present feel free to ask the installer questions regarding the install

[joshua_welby]

Originally Posted by mickymcd

If you or your family can receive help from the bbc's digital switch over scheme and you have an installer coming keep a firm eye on there install practice horror stories are rife at present feel free to ask the installer questions regarding the install

I thought that the Installers are the same as in other ITV Regions, I did not think that they use a different contractor in the Teesside area,
I cannot remember who the contractors just now, but they have just changed their name recently
and they are also in charge of the Help Scheme Call Centres as well and they are in charge of sending the Letters out
and getting their information from the DWP and the Local Council and other Agencies

[Mark C]

Originally Posted by joshua_welby

I thought that the Installers are the same as in other ITV Regions, I did not think that they use a different contractor in the Teesside area,

They use a verity of local installers, some good, others complete and utter muppets that make the Channel 5 retuners from 1997 look like members of Mensa.

[kenny1234]

When they visited our region during switchover the work they carried out was shocking - I have seen better DIY.

Personally I would advise anyone to steer well clear................

[PeacockAntony]

Don't have to worry about it even though I am in the Tyne Tees area.
Installed it all ourselves, just need to get a better distribution kit so all the TVs can get a feed and not have to rely only portable aerials.

[MatthewColeran]

sounds like there might be just a cluster filter (profiler) amplifier in place. I have installed many of these to filter out unwanted signals and improve wanted ones. All the ones i have done were before HD muxes or on transmitters with no HD muxes. All these cluster filter amps will need to be reprogrammed to include the new HD muxes and also the existing channels will need to be changed (we haven't gone through digital switchover up here yet!). Its quite a simple job with the digital cluster filters, you just have to go into the menu and rearrange the channel groups. Takes less than 10mins for a properly trained pro!
However landlords/housing associations will need to be told to do this as they wont realise this work needs doing!

[MatthewColeran]

Originally Posted by MatthewColeran

sounds like there might be just a cluster filter (profiler) amplifier in place. I have installed many of these to filter out unwanted signals and improve wanted ones. All the ones i have done were before HD muxes or on transmitters with no HD muxes. All these cluster filter amps will need to be reprogrammed to include the new HD muxes and also the existing channels will need to be changed (we haven't gone through digital switchover up here yet!). Its quite a simple job with the digital cluster filters, you just have to go into the menu and rearrange the channel groups. Takes less than 10mins for a properly trained pro!
However landlords/housing associations will need to be told to do this as they wont realise this work needs doing!

Just realised i have posted this in the wrong post!.....