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Stuart Cheese - DCI UK / DCI International

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Oct 10, 2002, 1:07:43 PM10/10/02
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My brother in law and I both had ITV digital.

When it closed down, I went over to sky and he just put his box away

He recently tried putting his box back on to get the free to air channels
and found his box frozen on CBBeebies.

Thinking it was screwed, he asked to borrow my box and reports this is stuck
on BBC2

Any thoughts ?

Thanks in advance for any help

Stuart


Dom Robinson

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Oct 10, 2002, 1:36:38 PM10/10/02
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In article <rsip9.388$Lm1.25711@stones>, stuart...@dciuk.co.uk says...

> My brother in law and I both had ITV digital.
>
> When it closed down, I went over to sky and he just put his box away
>
> He recently tried putting his box back on to get the free to air channels
> and found his box frozen on CBBeebies.
>
> Thinking it was screwed, he asked to borrow my box and reports this is stuck
> on BBC2

Reboot. Is it a Nokia? Mine sometimes crashes on BBC channels because of their
shitty "teletext" service as it can't handle the MHEG effect.

I wish I could turn off the MHEG for good.
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Stuart Cheese - DCI UK / DCI International

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Oct 10, 2002, 2:25:42 PM10/10/02
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When you say re-boot, is that as is turn it off and on again only that has
not worked

Thanks though

Stuart

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JC

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Oct 10, 2002, 3:25:54 PM10/10/02
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Have you turned favourites off?

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Stuart Cheese - DCI UK / DCI International

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Oct 10, 2002, 3:43:09 PM10/10/02
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Nothing works on either box, can't get the menu up not even through the
controls on the box, just sits there on the same channel

Thanks, look forward to any thoughts

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Glyn

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Oct 10, 2002, 3:59:59 PM10/10/02
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"Stuart Cheese - DCI UK / DCI International" <stuart...@dciuk.co.uk>
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> Nothing works on either box, can't get the menu up not even through the
> controls on the box, just sits there on the same channel
>
> Thanks, look forward to any thoughts
>

If it is the MHEG5 on CBeebies that is causing the problem then try turning
it off by unplugging the mains. Remove the aerial then power it up again and
see if you have access to the menus. If you have menus then try selecting a
different channel or starting a re-scan before putting the aerial back in.

Glyn

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NevilleG

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Oct 10, 2002, 4:42:36 PM10/10/02
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Silly question, but have you tried new batteries in the hand set?


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Experi Mentor

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Oct 10, 2002, 6:28:11 PM10/10/02
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And have you tried pressing the "Reset" button - this does a far deeper
reset than just power off.

EM
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Andy

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Oct 10, 2002, 3:55:26 PM10/10/02
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Have you tried unplugging the box from the wall and plugging in again. I've
occassionally had freezes on my Nokia box that aren't cured by a reset.

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MacStan

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Oct 13, 2002, 7:25:35 PM10/13/02
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On 10/10/02 11:28 pm, in article
manp9.4425$fV4.2...@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net, "Experi Mentor"
<experi...@bigfoot.con> wrote:

> And have you tried pressing the "Reset" button - this does a far deeper
> reset than just power off.
>

And to reiterate a previous post - change the batteries - I had the same
problems which, like that Dom guy, I thought were related to MHEG (he said
as if he knew what he was talking about), but, when it finally stuck on
ITV1, I eventually gave up and swapped batteries - it's absolutely fine on
all channels, with or with out fancy graphics.

A

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