Got a Freeview box slapped under your TV? Then you’re going to need to retune it this Wednesday in order to get all available channels and extras. It’ll also prime the service for the forthcoming Freeview HD upgrade.
Upgrading your Freeview box is simple and can be done via your remote control, simply by rescanning for new channels. The essential upgrade will do more than simply keeping This Morning on your telly though. It’ll make sure an extra 500,000 homes can tune in to Five (Neighbours fans, rejoice!) as well as opening access to a new channel, Quest.
But it’s preparations for the future of Freeview HD that make this update really important. The big players are using the retune to get their houses in order to create more capacity for HD channels, with ITV and BBC available in hi–def by the end of 2009.
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You’ll need a whole new box for Freeview HD, but if you want your regular box to play nice, make sure you’ve give it the retuning treatment on Wednesday 30 September from “lunch time onwards”.
Out Wednesday | £free | Freeview
Quest – what a rubbish name for a TV channel.
Sounds really Alan Partridge doesn’t it? That said, I’m so excited about Freeview HD. Sky’s just too much and the thought of next year’s World Cup in glorious hi-def makes me weak at the knees. It’ll be ace seeing John Terry’s tears in eyeball stroking details when our brave boys bottle it in the quarters!
It’s a good thing Peter Beardsley retired before the advent of HD, that’s for sure. I wouldn’t actually bother with the retune were it not for the Freeview HD groundwork – unless Quest plans to show Monkey Tennis.
i dont even know how to do this!! can someone help pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Hi Emily. Check the menus of your Freeview box. There’ll be an option to “scan” for channels, although some boxes simply call it “set-up” or “auto tune”. Look for any of those. If all else fails, have a look for a “reset” function, that should force it to forget all the current settings and re-tune from scratch.