Freeview TV!

[garysmith]

Having just returned from my yearly 5 month jaunt to India, I have come back to a Freeview service that is beyond a joke.
I have re-installed channels from the start, but it still takes over 5 seconds to change channels. Sometimes the signal just disappears completely when just before, I have 80% signal. And teletext is a total joke, taking 5 mins to get to the footie results?
I am in Hertfordshire. Anyone else have this problem? It's the same on two tv's in my house.

[HowardKennitby]

If you receive via aerial has it been moved or damaged? It may need realigned.

[garysmith]

As far as I am aware, no one has been anywhere the aerial.

[bibblebub]

Taking 5 seconds to change channels suggests to me that it's all about the set expecting a certain number of digits for channel numbers.

If the set is expecting a channel number that is 3 digits long and you want channel 7 and so only key in the number 7 then the set waits to see if you are going to type in any more digits; after 5 seconds of receiving nothing it will then switch to channel 007. To prevent that 5 seconds delay you need to key in leading 0's, in this particular instance 0 0 7.

As you key in a channel number you should see onscreen an indication of the total number of digits required (usually any that it is awaiting are indicated by a dash so in that example you would see 7--).

[craft1948]

Well the wind might have been..............

[garysmith]

Thanks bibblebub, but that isn't the problem. For example, if I push auto return, it takes just as long to go back to previous channel, if not longer.
I can handle the delay, it's the losing signal bit that bothers me and, of course, the snail speed teletext!!