Recent content by borderman

We seem to have lost ITV 1 (all regions) sometime yesterday, does that mean that they have all been moved out of range?

Thanks for the reply.The source was a friend of mine, whose satellite man rang her up to warn her that this may be going to happen. With all the recent changes (losses?) I guess it does not take much to start a panic. I also meant to mention that we have been getting reasonable results with a...

Have been getting ITV, CH4 and CH5 with the Vu+ box also all SKY sports and film channels and many others (mostly rubbish) but have heard a rumour today that we may shortly lose everything, anybody any idea of the strength of this rumour?

Thanks for the prompt reply. Are you implying that SKY will go the same way? Some friends of mine have lost some SKY channels but gained others.

Quite a long time since I posted but has anybody an idea as to why ITV seems to have completely disappeared today. This usually only occurs when there is heavy rain.

Thanks for the info, sounds as if there are going to be many unemployed satellite installers in Cyprus shortly. Trying to learn Greek but it's hard!! We do have, allegedly, fast broadband here and there is one company (Easyvision) advertising an offering. My concern is that it may be illegal...

We are in the Paphos area of Cyprus and are about to give up with Freesat,we have lost most channels and those that we still receive disappear during the evening, when the best programmes are on. Is there a reliable way of receiving the BBC and ITV, even if it means ditching the Freesat kit and...

Thanks for the reply, things are getting worse rapidly. Since Monday last we have lost all ITV from about 1830 until 0030 (Cyprus time) having previously had no trouble. Is this also likely to be caused by BADR 5?

Zorba Is there an expert installer that you know in Paphos who may be able to help with the various probs that I have put on this forum, I'm not impressed with the one that we have used so far. Thanks

We have one TV in Freesat mode and one in non Freesat mode. We still only receive BBC Scotland in Freesat mode but many BBC regions in non Freesat mode. For the past 3 or 4 weeks we have been having considerable interference on the BBC channels that we can receive. No probs with ITV. I had...

We have not been able to receive BBC1, 2 or Channel 5 (London) for nearly a week, is this likely to be due to weather conditions in UK or Cyprus? The only BBC channels getting through are BBC1,2 (Scotland) No probs with ITV channels. Also I have been trying to record the Ashes highlights on ITV...

Thanks, I think I'll join you as dazed and confused. I am not clear how a Freesat channel is designated amoung the many transmitted from the satellites. On most days we can receive the 7 day EPG (on the box that I have not fiddled with) so if the tuning data comes from Eurobird we should be able...

Apologies for the delay in reply. We have now lost BBC1 and 2 England and Ch5. It looks as if BBC is rearranging all or most of it's transmissions. The box that came preprogrammed from UK picks up the transmissions (except for the lost ones)and the EPG but my second box will not find the Freesat...

Thanks Zorba. We have second telly with second Foxsat box that was set up in the UK to our then postcode and worked here except for the lost channels. Tried a reset and rescan and worst fears realised, we lost everything. The box does even pick up the Freesat signal and we get the dreaded...

The regional channels are probably residue from the UK, where the box was originally set up, though we could not receive most of them there either! We get very good quality ITV1 HD, not sure about CH4, it does not appear in the channel list.