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Blank BBC Red Button Channel 250

Last.To.Know

Last.To.Know

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My default channel is BBC Red Button Channel 250.

In the past couple of months or so, it has stopped displaying anything.

It's still 'there' as I can pull up the Info banner.

And my TV switches off if it's not receiving a signal, so it obviously is.

And occasionally, it will display the normal text, time etc. after an hour or so.

I receive transmissions from Sandy Heath.

Any ideas?

Oh, hang on.

The Web-IF Mux page reports the signal strength as 60% and the signal quality as 30%.

So it's probably that.

But I'd be grateful to hear about Sandy Heath from others.
 
So I am not alone in using this as my standard start up channel to avoid spoilers and to wait for me to choose what channel or recording I actually want to watch. :)

I have noticed too that it occasionally stays blank or takes a long time for its banner to display. Switching away from then back to it usually brings it back. This is on a old Digitalstream PVR from Oxford so not device or transmitter specific but looks like a more general thing.
 
Last.To.Know said:
The Web-IF Mux page reports the signal strength as 60% and the signal quality as 30%.
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That was the value when you tuned it, not a live figure. I would suggest you check all muxes' figures on the box itself (Settings, System, Signal Detection) for the real story.
 
gomezz said:
So I am not alone in using this as my standard start up channel to avoid spoilers and to wait for me to choose what channel or recording I actually want to watch. :)

I have noticed too that it occasionally stays blank or takes a long time for its banner to display. Switching away from then back to it usually brings it back. This is on a old Digitalstream PVR from Oxford so not device or transmitter specific but looks like a more general thing.
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Ditto. Yes, it's blank.
 
On all my equipment (including TVs) except the Aura the channel takes quite a while to appear. The Aura doesn't support MHEG, so the page we are all used to on 250 never appears. A replacement page is served quite quickly.
Could it be another (less than) subtle nudge from the BBC to move away from MHEG text services?
 
250 on my HDR-Fox-T2 ex Sandy Heath is fine, the colourful MHEG slate appears quite quickly. It's not my default channel on switch on if that makes a difference.

My Panny OLED being HbbTV capable produces just a black screen for a variable length of time before a stark b&w text message appears (it may also do MHEG?). Possibly longest from a TV switch on / Freeview TV mode select. {It starts up on my Foxsat-HDR input unless I've watched iPlayer or some alternate source.} "Press Red" while on 250 does nothing on the TV.

BBC Red Button 1 data and BBC RB1 video, when present, is carried only on the BBC A (standard definition) multiplex. On SDT that is freq ch 27. Unlikely with the HDR-Fox-T2 to be a mis-tuning to an alternate transmitter (such as Oxford, Waltham or CP due to the different Region) but worth checking when in the signal diagnostics menu, possibly.
 
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