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[Bionic]

Is everyone as p*ssed off as I am with the digital tv update that appears every single day when you first turn it on? Is it beyond the capaibilities of those responsible to just simply do it in one go once a week or better still, each month? Or is it just another thing that this countries so called experts cannot get right and utilise a make do and mend attitude as always? I am beginning to think that this country has finally exported all of its brains cos it now seems to lurch from one cock up to another with no solution in sight.
Who is paying for this fiasco?? You got it right.... its us the poor bleeding taxpayer again that is paying high wages to experts that are mainly useless and could not organise a pee up in a brewery

[Martian]

Stop moaning woman, if you want something that actually works then you'll have to pay for it 

[Taxi_Driver]

What updates are these?
I've got two tv's with freeview built in, they don't do updates.....

I seem to recall that i have got an external freeview box somewhere, that started trying to update it itself everyday....i just turned off auto updates on it to 'fix' the problem 

[Martin_1962]

Didn't even notice the updates to the Humax

Pace don't do updates - they do boxes which will be scrap at switchover

[Jimbob]

only noticed this with a cheap box, wanted it frequently.

better ones amend the channel list silently - no messing about.

[TheBoy]

Is this the pre-DSO alerts they send out a few months before DSO, as there is normally 2-3 retunes required in the 6 months leading up to DSO?

Its to ensure everyone gets the message - they accept the country is full of incredibly stupid people, and they have a responsibility to assist them.


If its a retune message from your box, well, make a better decision next time

[Taxi_Driver]

Is this the pre-DSO alerts they send out a few months before DSO, as there is normally 2-3 retunes required in the 6 months leading up to DSO?

Its to ensure everyone gets the message - they accept the country is full of incredibly stupid people, and they have a responsibility to assist them.


If its a retune message from your box, well, make a better decision next time

I'm pretty certain the external box that i have (that i turned off auto updates) was trying to update its firmware

[Amigo]

I have no boxes just integrated TV's. Upstairs gives me the odd reminder, downstairs never does? :-/

[Richie London]

i dont get updates, i just do it every now and then.

[Vamps]

i dont get updates, i just do it every now and then.

As I do with freesat............

[Bionic]

martian....your comment instructing me to stop moaning is a silly one considering that you do not know what equipment I have. Was it made just to boost your post count?
Freeview boxes...we do not have any! Should I post pictures of the tv screens just to prove it happens, as it did again this morning? By the way when I called the local Sky installer he told me, as did the Digital TV switchover advisory thing that it will keep happening until such time as the whole country has finally turned digital and the analogue system switched off for ever in 2012. Apparently it is due to the fact that some channels have to change numbers and there is only a limited amount of free ones thay can use. Common sense really which I only got nto understand myself after I had rang the experts.
For you information our TV's are all Panasonic's (many still under the manufacturers unextended warranties) and include 2 x 42 inch plasma's, 2 x 26 inch Lcd's and a 19 inch Lcd in the kitchen. Coupled with the Plasma in the living room are the the top Sky+ Package, a Wii,  a Cinema Sound (Panasonic of course) and a seperate Tivo which we use for our FreeSat. Needless to say that the bedrooms are also on Sky packages too. Soon the conservatory will have a full Media Centre TV also with Cinema Sound.
We love our entertainment and as we rarely go out we can afford to buy the best equipment and enjoy it. Many of our neighbours come round for movie nights too so all in all we have a good life. Everything is also fully paid for too because we use cash.
All is covered by a full ADT alarm system and cctv as recommended by our insurers.
Try to think before you post of what your comment will be read as meaning...yours was uncessarilly rude.
By the way, have a look at the symbol below my avatar...I am clearly a male!

[Jimbob]

Bionic....the comment above was obviously not serious and a joke...note the smilies....lighten up a bit and take things as intended 

constant retunes are a well known 'feature' of cheap equipment, hence the advice to buy better, as we now know you have 'better' equipment, this is less valid....

General chat is, and always has been a humour / banter rich enviroment, and long may it continue.  No offence was meant.

As noone else here seems to be suffering like you...can you be more specific on the message you are getting...

If its asking for a retune, do you do it?

[Richie London]

Bionic....the comment above was obviously not serious and a joke...note the smilies....lighten up a bit and take things as intended 

constant retunes are a well known 'feature' of cheap equipment, hence the advice to buy better, as we now know you have 'better' equipment, this is less valid....

General chat is, and always has been a humour / banter rich enviroment, and long may it continue.  No offence was meant.

As noone else here seems to be suffering like you...can you be more specific on the message you are getting...

If its asking for a retune, do you do it?

yes i seem to get the impression bionic has a real problem with peoples sense of humour.

[LJay]

Bionic....the comment above was obviously not serious and a joke...note the smilies....lighten up a bit and take things as intended 

constant retunes are a well known 'feature' of cheap equipment, hence the advice to buy better, as we now know you have 'better' equipment, this is less valid....

General chat is, and always has been a humour / banter rich enviroment, and long may it continue.  No offence was meant.

As noone else here seems to be suffering like you...can you be more specific on the message you are getting...

If its asking for a retune, do you do it?

yes i seem to get the impression bionic has a real problem with peoples sense of humour.

 

[ninjapirate]

Ive not had any tvs or equiptment be freeview or sky do these updates, i sometimes notice channels have moved so maybe mine do it in the background.
you havnt said whats updating tho, try looking into settings see if you can make it auto update.

Your reply to martin seems a little heavy tbh