Re: Freeview - How Many Channels in East Dulwich

[the-e-dealer]

I've bought a portable TV coat-hanger after my gardener cut me off from my Roof Coat Hanger. I have 116 channels Anyone got more than that?

[the-e-dealer]

This is a local query!

[ianr]

Crystal Palace DTV channels

[Lowlander]

My experience of indoor ariels in London is that you get everything, and friends and family for whom I've set up freeview say they're happy.

From memory we have 80 odd TV channels, so with the radio ones thrown in that sounds about right.

[mikeb]

Following a revamp of my wiring, I get 98 TV and I think about 20 radio. I was quite pleased with that before I saw your 116 channels and I'm now wondering what delights I'm missing.

[the-e-dealer]

Mike if you add 98+20 its 118 so you have 2 more than me!

IANR I too can look at the theoretical map I'm trying to get actual real RECEPTION INFO TO COMPARE WITH MY OWN.

[The Minkey]

I have hardly watched TV since the Digital Switchover ruined my reception of all the channels I used to watch: No BBC or ITV channels, no Film4 etc. I have a lot of channels listed but most are unwatchable either due to picture quality or content. I have the same indoor ariel I had prior to the change. Anyone else found their reception degraded?

[the-e-dealer]

You need to re-position your Coat Hanger!

[The Minkey]

It's been repositioned in every location its lead will allow. No joy. I've retuned the TV many times too.

[Townleygreen]

the word is spelled "aerial" by the way

[the-e-dealer]

Wow a website with an automatick spell-checker

[the-e-dealer]

Actually maybe thats the problem misspselling!

[Callie]

You get all the freeview channels you're supposed to get in ED. You can check the freeview website against what you've got to see if they are all there, if not, try retuning. You need an outdoor aerial installed for decent reception, forget the indoor ones.

[the-e-dealer]

So how many do you get callie?

[the-e-dealer]

Also some channels like RED Button are not listed. All I am asking is how many people actually get.

Looking at this website I see there are approx 133 channels in Total

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_terrestrial_television_channels_%28UK%29

[mikeb]

Until I replaced some of my wiring, I wasn't able to get any HD channels and quite a few others had disappeared as well. As TED says, how many channels you actually get is not to do with how many are broadcast.

[the-e-dealer]

Well to be fair the number broadcast IS the starting point but it can be affected by many things. Interference, poor aeriel, badly positioned, poor cable / plugs/ using wrong multiplex, interference, faulty equipment Etc.

[Bic Basher]

Is anyone also getting a neighbouring region? If for example you find that you're not getting London news on BBC1 or ITV, it could mean that you're getting it from another transmitter further away than Crystal Palace.

As for me, I use an indoor aerial and get all the Freeview channels except HD.

[reneet]

How do you know how many you have. My telly shows 700 odd something in the guide but just a few of those are active. How to know is going through each one and counting unless someone else has a brighter idea.

[Sue]

The Minkey Wrote:

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> It's been repositioned in every location its lead

> will allow. No joy. I've retuned the TV many

> times too.

xxxxxx

Silly question I know, and profuse apologies if you have, but have you retuned the television since the changeover? It needed to be done twice on different dates .....

I wouldn't have thought the aerial needed moving, mine certainly didn't.

[KalamityKel]

you would have needed to retune more recently too - some channels have moved around

[intexasatthe moment]

Well my twopennyworth is

74 TV + 24 radio channels .

Indoor ariel .

Had very poor reception with Philips TV ,hugely improved with cheapo Celcus from Sainsbury .

?leads the problem rather than TV .

No idea .

[the-e-dealer]

Thanks intosexatthemoment! Just What I need!

[intexasatthe moment]

Do you mean the missrepresentation of my username or the content of the post ?

[intexasatthe moment]

Spell checker not enabled today ?