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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I recently purchased a Panasonic 42" Plasma HD Freeview TV knowing that on 17th August, Freeview HD would be available in my area.

Alas, HD is still unavailable. Has anyone else had this experience? Does anyone know a way of finding out when we're likely to have Freeview HD? I've checked on freeview.co.uk but it's not very helpful--it's still telling my that HD Freeview is available on 17th August.

Any ideas?

[TheBoy]

Does the TV have a Freeview-HD tuner built in?  Being plasma, I'm guessing possibly not  :-/

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Does the TV have a Freeview-HD tuner built in?  Being plasma, I'm guessing possibly not  :-/

Yes, TB, it does have a Freeview HD tuner built in, which is why I'm disappointed.

[rob in gib]

My 42" plasma does have a built in hd freeview tuner
Now if i can only find a big enough booster to recieve the transmission from the uk i would be sorted lol

[I_want_an_Omega]

If you are talking about the Belmont switchover then I'm watching it now & vfery good it is.

Channels 50, 51, 52 & 54.

If you are getting your TV from Waltham then the switchover is later.

Hope that helps.

[Debs.]

  I`m still pondering if I should ditch my 405 line VHF receiving-set and go all 'new-fangled' with this 625 line UHF malarky.......do you all think it`ll catch on?

 
Dear old Aly-pally!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I`m still pondering if I should ditch my 405 line VHF receiving-set and go all 'new-fangled' with this 625 line UHF malarky.......do you all think it`ll catch on?

 
Dear old Aly-pally!

Ah yes Ms Debs. Waiting for the valves to warm up left me breathless with anticipation.....

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

If you are talking about the Belmont switchover then I'm watching it now & vfery good it is.

Channels 50, 51, 52 & 54.

If you are getting your TV from Waltham then the switchover is later.

Hope that helps.

Can see it from my garden. All nicely lit up and some thirty miles distant.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

If you are talking about the Belmont switchover then I'm watching it now & vfery good it is.

Channels 50, 51, 52 & 54.

If you are getting your TV from Waltham then the switchover is later.

Hope that helps.

We're right between the two. Almost exactly 25 miles from each transmitter. We lost all the analogue signals on 17th August as predicted for Belmont. But maybe we're receiving the digital from Waltham  :-/

Thanks for that. It may explain what's happened.

[I_want_an_Omega]

You will have had to do a re-scan/installation on the TV as the HD channels (and others) sit in the space occupied by the analogue signals.

Let us know how you get on.

[dad1uk]

I`m still pondering if I should ditch my 405 line VHF receiving-set and go all 'new-fangled' with this 625 line UHF malarky.......do you all think it`ll catch on?

 
Dear old Aly-pally!

405, there's a blast from the past

[I_want_an_Omega]

This is the site you want to get reception information.

http://www.ukfree.tv/txlist.php

Select the transmitter you want on the map.

Then pop in your postcode and it gives the distance and heading.

Much more helpful then the freeview page.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

This is the site you want to get reception information.

http://www.ukfree.tv/txlist.php

Select the transmitter you want on the map.

Then pop in your postcode and it gives the distance and heading.

Much more helpful then the freeview page.

Thanks, Robert, that is much more helpful It's Waltham for us. Available from 31st August.

[I_want_an_Omega]

Or you could redirect your aerial to Belmont & get the signal now.

[Martian]

I`m still pondering if I should ditch my 405 line VHF receiving-set and go all 'new-fangled' with this 625 line UHF malarky.......do you all think it`ll catch on?

I reckon they'll have to do something about the ferrite cores working themselves loose over time before anybody buys in to them, that 15.625 Khz whistle is so much more bloody annoying than 10.125 KHz