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Thread discussing any developments relating to the Freeview transmission network.

[Moz]

Had to retune my TV last night and force it to use England and North West as my region because I couldn’t get Channel 4 HD with Wales as the region. S4C was on 104.

Is this normal?

[Josh]

Had to retune my TV last night and force it to use England and North West as my region because I couldn’t get Channel 4 HD with Wales as the region. S4C was on 104.

Is this normal?

Normally the high pressure weather messes up the signal and causes you to get more channels (which sounds good but actually affects the quality of all the other channels). Yes.

[Nick Harvey]

Is this normal?

Yes, perfectly normal. Channel 4 HD isn't available on the Welsh transmitters.

[WillPS]

When did DTT boxes stop dumping non-EPG channels in the 8xx range?

[Andrew Wood]

When you say non-EPG, do you mean those placeholders when a channel closes another takes their place and the like?

All my boxes and TVs seem to have done that over the years. The same with duplicate channels.

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[Moz]

Is this normal?

Yes, perfectly normal. Channel 4 HD isn't available on the Welsh transmitters.

Oh OK. I'm sure we used to get it. We're right on the border though.

[WillPS]

When you say non-EPG, do you mean those placeholders when a channel closes another takes their place and the like?

All my boxes and TVs seem to have done that over the years. The same with duplicate channels.

Way back in pre-Freeview days, when channels were first added to multiplexes they sometimes wouldn't have a channel number assigned and they'd end up on 80x, I remember this was where CBBC/Cbeebies first appeared and also where the BBCi/red button feeds appeared until they were moved to 30x for the world cup proper.

Later on I had a Philips DTT box (not ONdigital) and if you did a scan on a good day it'd park the ITV1 Yorkshire feed up in 80x (this was before boxes used to ask which region you lived in or for a postcode or anything like that, so I presume it awarded EPG number to whichever channel presented with the best signal strength?). I always presumed S4C/C4 would appear in that range but I can't confirm it ever worked that way for DVB-T2.

[Lester]

Would anyone know when Channel 4 might be moving to 104 on Freesat? Also, All4 isn't on there either. First World problems but annoying!

[IanJRedman]

Would anyone know when Channel 4 might be moving to 104 on Freesat? Also, All4 isn't on there either. First World problems but annoying!

Channel 4 HD would move to Freesat channel 104 once fully regionalised versions are available in HD (at the moment, only London is in HD). I believe these are currently testing on Sky - not Freesat - albeit encrypted.