01-10-2023, 11:34 PM
A few months back, I stayed in a hotel in Cheltenham. The TV in the room was a cheap-ish model, but it had Freeview HD. I tried to settle down to watch the evening news, but I found BBC One HD on channel 101 was totally mute. Every other channel was fine, including HD channels, and BBC One in SD on channel 1 worked - it was just BBC One HD that had pictures but no sound.
I twigged what had happened pretty quickly. The TV evidently hadn't been retuned since the regional variant of BBC One HD launched on the local transmitter. The service label was still "BBC ONE HD" (no regional name). For whatever reason, the TV was still able to "see" the video stream but it wasn't decoding any audio. I was able to access all the settings, so I took the liberty of doing a quick rescan, and hey presto, BBC One West Midlands HD appeared on channel 101 with sound.
I wondered if that telly subsequently had the best setup in the entire hotel
I twigged what had happened pretty quickly. The TV evidently hadn't been retuned since the regional variant of BBC One HD launched on the local transmitter. The service label was still "BBC ONE HD" (no regional name). For whatever reason, the TV was still able to "see" the video stream but it wasn't decoding any audio. I was able to access all the settings, so I took the liberty of doing a quick rescan, and hey presto, BBC One West Midlands HD appeared on channel 101 with sound.
I wondered if that telly subsequently had the best setup in the entire hotel
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