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27 July 2009 - 11.00hrs
An over-air download for Alba Proview set-top boxes is set to take place from later today, upgrading them from version 3.2.3 to 3.4.2. The change should provide performance enhancements to the Teletext Extra service, with faster navigation.
Viewers can pick up the download by tuning their box to ITV1 or Channel 4 and leaving it for a short period. It should pick up the upgrade automatically.
To check that you have automatic downloads enabled, please go to Menu, Configuration option, select Reciever Upgrade and ensure Automatic Download is enabled. The screen also shows the current version on the box.
13 February 2009 - 17.00hrs
A reorganisation of the airwaves is set to take place in the Meridian TV region on Wednesday, March 25, as part of preparations for digital switchover.
The switch is not due to take place in the region until 2012, but Digital UK says on March 25 the analogue Channel Five TV signal in the South Coast area (from the Fawley transmitter) will be switched off. Viewers in the Southampton, Gosport and Portsmouth areas and parts of the Isle of Wight will need digital TV in order to watch Five.
At the same time, to continue receiving all the available Freeview, Top Up TV or BT Vision services, viewers in Hampshire, east Dorset, West Sussex and on the Isle of Wight (those receiving their signal from the Rowridge transmitter) will need to re-tune their equipment on this date.
Digital UK says the move is necessary to protect Freeview services from interference from neighbouring areas in the UK and France where switchover is due to start from mid 2009. Making these changes now will ensure digital viewers across the south of England continue to receive all their channels free from interference.
Viewers should follow the following basic re-tune steps:
1. Press 'Menu' on your remote control. Some set-top boxes/digital recorders or IDTVs will ask you for a code. If you have not already changed it, the default code is usually 0000, or 1234, or check your installation book.
2. From the menu options on screen, select 'Install'. Select 'Auto Setup' to re-tune your equipment (not 'add channels'). You may have to wait a couple of minutes for the re-tune to complete.
3. If you do not re-tune your channels when advised to do so by Digital UK, you may lose some or all of your channels. You should re-tune your Freeview box every few months to check for any new channels.
For further information, including a map of the affected region, please go to the Digital UK website's page on the Rowridge transmitter group.
10 February 2009 - 11.30hrs
Teletext Extra is now the most widely available EPG on the Freeview platform, with Over Air Downloads now complete for over 8 million set top boxes. The rollout programme will continue during 2009, with further downloads to existing set-top boxes and sales of new boxes and IDTVs with the service pre-installed expected to take the total at year end to over 12 million.
The service is now available on the following Freeview set top boxes (latest additions are marked *):
• Acoustic Solutions DV600B*
• Agora AEAG008*
• Akura AV900STB*
• Alba STB8
• Amstrad AMS2009*
• Astratec TOPD1, TOPD2 and TOPD3
• Audioline FTA300
• Bush DFTA1000, DFTA2, DFTA3, DFTA11* and T404
• Crown CDST900* and CDST935
• Daewoo DS700
• Digihome AV16890*, DVB915*, DV940 and DV941
• Digilogic DSTB1000 and DSTB1500*
• Durabrand PSTB-1
• Ferguson FDT 2000 and FDT 2500
• Goodmans GDB3 and GDB6
• Grundig GUDSTB1000*, GDT 1500T, GDT 2000 and T404
• Linsar LDT1*
• Logik LDR1A
• Luxor CDSTB900*
• Matsui DTR-2, DTR-3 and TUTV1
• Onn OSTB01*
• Pacific PSTB-1
• Proline DFV152L*
• Seg AESEGS7B*, CDST900* and DVBSEG*
• Technika 9005, AESTBS7 and Digi2000T
• Technosonic FTA 204T, 2114P and STB2014
• Techwood AESTBS7B*, DVB900TW* and TWDFV2A
• Teknique Digital Vision*
• Thomson DTI 1000
• TWF TWFSA101D
• Wharfedale DV832 and LPDV832B*
NB Not all versions of the above models have the service.
If you would like to become involved in any future testing that we may undertake, please register as one of our advanced users.If you are a Teletext Extra viewer we'd like to know what you think about the service. Please contact us with your comments or if you have any queries about the service.
Email: teletextextra@inview.co.uk
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