Freeview viewers reminded to retune
 

This announcement, I take it this only affects the folks with freeview and won't affect the Virgin Media STB users.

I apologise if this sounds a stupid question. :dozey:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090929...e-6323e80.html

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Indeed it won't affect your virgin STB.

Unless of course, like me, you have a virgin freeview box ;)

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Hi, and thanks for your reply.

Bit confused when you say you have a virgin freeview box, are they different from the boxes that VM give us for their TV packages such as Medium, Large and extra large?

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Yes indeed, if you can't get cable and use their serviced you used to get a freeview box instead of the standard cable boxes.

If you have cable you don't need to worry the retuning thing won't apply.

edit - I've attached a picture of the box I mean.

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In other words it doesn't effect cable or satellite but instead only DVB-T boxes

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Thanks guys, I didn't realise VM did boxes for customers that don't or couldn't get cable.

Btw, what does DVB-T stand for?

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DVB = Digital Video Broadcasting

Then it's commonly followed by one of 3 letters (though there are more)

DVB-S = Satellite (sky or freesat)
DVB-C = Cable (Virgin Media (not analogue))
DVB-T = Terrestrial (Freeview)

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All 3 of my TVs have built in Freeview so I will be having fun tomorrow. Just in case anyone hasn't seen the official site.
http://www.freeview.co.uk/freeview/R...September-2009

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Sorry, hope I'm not being stupid now, but the middle one DVB-C, I thought that one would come under the normal STB range?

---------- Post added at 12:51 ---------- Previous post was at 12:46 ----------

Everyone must be clicking on this site right now as I am having difficulty reaching it.

You finding this too?

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It's nothing to do with it being an STB it's more to do with the format of signals it tunes to. DVB-C can be a virgin media set-top box or it could be a PC card. The same as DVB-T is anything from a TV, STB, PC-card, USB that is designed to pick up terrestrial digital signals.. and a DVB-S device could be a freeview box, Sky, PC card, FTA reciever..etc..

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Yes it took me ages to bring the site up. Thought I had best give a quote to save people a bit of time. 18 million sets will be effected and all their owners seem to be checking out the site right now. :D

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Mines is an Explorer DVB connected to the TV, and has a card in the front of the box.

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How exciting...

Any Freeview box/card/dongle which is designed to plug into an externial antenna and point towards a tv transmitter for the purpose of recieving digital signals is DVB-T compliant..and all that means is that it'll scan a certain range of frequencies and expect to find signals transmitting on mpeg2 for SD or mpeg4 for HD

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This ones just as busy, lol