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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 06:40 PM
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Default Channel 5 is down!!!

Anyone else experience lock up on channel 5??

its been stuck like this for ages now:



Tried a ferranti reset and retune!!!
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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 06:45 PM
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Cool, fancy a telephone conversation later? I'll ring you don't worry about that!

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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Rick Astley
Cool, fancy a telephone conversation later? I'll ring you don't worry about that!

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Old Oct 10, 2009 | 06:49 PM
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 11:44 AM
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 12:05 PM
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How come you have blured out the tv make?
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Rossco
How come you have blured out the tv make?
He hasn't it was his telephone number printed onto a sticky label and stuck to his TV
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 12:15 PM
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why would you need you phone number labelled on your tv?
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 12:19 PM
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What are you watching it through? Sky box? freeview box? normal non digital aerial?
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Rick Astley
He hasn't it was his telephone number printed onto a sticky label and stuck to his TV
WTF, very random.

What was the reason for that Warren.

Smit if you are having problems, you better check your dish, might have some burger cheese stuck on it again.
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 03:40 PM
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It's not his phone number jesus, that would just be confusing. Clearly it's a label saying "Television".

All said in jest my friend
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 04:17 PM
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channel 5 is fine here

it's probably a setting on the telly or soemthing

i had the same problem that turned out to be the dvd recorder freezing and thus affecting the telly picture
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 04:20 PM
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surely its easier to write everything on the walls using black permenent marker?
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 04:24 PM
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i heard something the other day about freeview users having to retune channel by set date or loose it or something like that?
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 05:05 PM
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If its freeview, you will need a retune. Just turn it off and on again, see if that cures it.

Telephone number stuck to the tv?
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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 06:44 PM
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It was on freeview and normal. Wasnt a tuning problem. Came back by itself an hour later.

Originally Posted by fuzzy
why would you need you phone number labelled on your tv?
Originally Posted by Rossco
What was the reason for that Warren.
Because i have a bad memory so cant even remember my own mobile number so put stickers everywhere.
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