Yesterday I got a new bedroom tv and think I successfully tuned it all in. However I dont have the three above channels on it although all others seem to be there ok.

Does anyone know why? Could it be the fault of the indoor aerial?

Many thanks if anyone can help this technophobe!

May well be the indoor/set-top aerial which are hit and miss at he best of times
Have you tried scanning for channels using the main (known to be working) aerial.

Make/model of TV, type of aerial and your location may help

They are all on the same mux (multiplex) so it looks as if your reception of this is less robust than others. Quite possible with an indoor aerial even in strong signal areas. If you move the aerial you might find you gain these but lose some others - the easiest way to fix it is to find which UHF channel you're missing, do a manual scan on that one frequency with the aerial in different positions and keep doing so until you pick it up, then you will need to check a small selection of other channels (one from each of the other muxs) to make sure you haven't lost anything else, and if you have, experiment with different aerial positions to find the optimum position for the aerial for reception of all muxs. If you need further assistance we really need to know your location.

Try http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/find_help/troubleshooting too: the postcodechecker is on the right of that screen..

Thank you everyone for all your lovely and prompt replies!

The tv is a Toshiba 19BV501B and I live on the London/ Essex borders so we lost our BBC2 signal yesterday with the rest of the analogue channels going in 2 weeks.

I have just read that during the 2 weeks changeover the signal will be weaker than normal - ? Is this so?

I have to pop out now but on my return will take the tv downstairs and try it with the big tv loft aerial.

I'm just dreading somehow connecting this tv up to the loft aerial! Why do the simplest of things turn out to be so complicated?!

Many thanks again everyone.

As it's London and you're in the middle of switchover, your best bet is probably to hold on until the second stage on the 18th. At the moment, the only mux transmitting at high power is the BBC one. The rest, including the one carrying ITV, C4 and C5 are still the old pre-DSO low power signals. Everything will be increased to full power at stage 2, and that might well solve your problem.

If you start experimenting now, you might well be successful and get the channels you're missing but remember you'll still have to do a rescan the week after next.

Oh Spot you have no idea how relieved I feel now!

Yes I will definitely wait the two weeks before starting to mess around and then no doubt causing more problems!

Fingers, toes and eyes all crossed for two weeks time then!

Cheers Spot!

I still wouldn't have a TV screen in the bedroom, myself, but each to their own.

Your not alone there. My wife wouldn't have a tv in our bedroom either. I see no harm in it myself but there you go.

What! You spent all that money on a nice new TV and are trying to run it on a crappy indoor aerial. Do the job properly and bring another feed from the loft aerial via a 2 way splitter.

Would you try to run a new car on parafin?

Irresponsible post, as usual from you.

You seriously recommend spending money on a loft aerial connection + splitter over an indoor aerial? Or (based on your other posts) recommend spending several times the worth of the TV on a professional installation? Why do you insist people spend spend spend? Most people using indoor aerials usually haven't spent a lot on their TV to begin with.

The OP has already been well advised to wait until DSO is complete before doing anything.

Since Sutton Coldfield DSO, I can pick up all muxes 20 miles away with a loop aerial taken from a Sony KV-M1400U.

And it's not even worth shooting down your retarded attempt at a car analogy.

Seriously, if you want to have a crusade against something, forget about indoor aerials. Go after the crappy aerial flyleads that everyone sells these days. They cause far more reception problems than any aerial installation.