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Some Freeview digital set-top boxes no longer working.

Recent changes to some transmitters could mean that a small number of Freeview digital set-top boxes, particularly older ones, no longer work. If this is the case with your box, please contact the manufacturer or your local retailer for more information.

The changes are necessary because there are now more channels and interactivity than when Freeview was originally launched, and some Freeview boxes cannot cope with the increased amount of data being broadcast.

1 July 2008
The transmitters currently affected are:
Black Hill (Lanarkshire)
Durris (Aberdeenshire)
Divis (Co Antrim)
Pontop Pike (Durham)
Bilsdale (North Yorkshire)
Caldbeck (Cumbria)
Selkirk (Border)

More info http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/news/index.shtml

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THOUSANDS of Scots telly viewers have had their programmes blacked out without warning.
Bosses at Freeview decided to bring in a new transmitter signal which doesn't work on several types of set-top boxes.

But many Scots didn't have a clue about the change - until their screens went blank.
It's believed that around 16,000 Scots who get their telly through Freeview are now saddled with useless boxes. One of them, Campbell Bosanquet, 61, of Aberdeen, said: "I was flicking through the channels when my box just stopped working.

"I find it absolutely incredible that they can just change the signal without announcing it."
Freeview admitted that at least four types of box - the Daewoo DS608P, the Labgear DTT100, the Triax DVB 2000T and the Portland DP100 - can't receive the new transmitter signal.

Two types of combined Freeview boxes and VCRs, the Daewoo SV900 and Bush IDVCR01, are also affected.

And engineers say the change could affect some TVs which have Freeview built in.

Read more in the Daily Record.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/07/05/exclusive-thousands-of-scots-face-tv-blackout-after-freeview-signal-change-86908-20632202/

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