The Mail and Technophobia

LuciusAR · **Joined:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:09 am **Posts:** 766

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1216567/Freeview-shake-means-25million-retune.html#comments

I couldn’t find an existing thread suitable for this topic so though I would create a new one here. This story had me bewildered, It’s the very definition of making a mountain out of a molehill. This will take a couple presses of a button on the remote and all of 5 minutes of the mailites precious time.

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If this improves reception and service I have no problem with this. My complaint centres on the lack of publicity that this is about to happen.
- Frank Spence, Miadstone, England, 28/9/2009 8:25

What aside from the messages that have been appearing on my screen reminding me on a daily basis for more than a week now? How spoon fed do you want to be?

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I hope the lunatics who have organized this will go around to every pensioner household and help particularly aged and infirm people to retune their televisions because if they cannot receive television channels why should they pay for a service they cannot receive?
- Kenneth, Suffolk, England, 28/9/2009 7:05

Oh just fuck off you patronizing twat. Is your opinion of your elders really so low that you don’t think they are capable of handing a relatively simple procedure? Oh won’t someone think of the pensioners!

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Could be available through my water pipes for all I care. Gave my TV up 2 years ago. Celebrity driven rubbish designed to dumb us all down.
- merc, Welshpool, 28/9/2009 7:39

Good for you, totally irreverent to the story of course and nothing more than an opportunity to appear to smug and superior.

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After reading the story i thought well that should not be a problem, then i saw the BBC was involved, this is just another scam by this outdated company which are good at ripping the public off.
- john lynch, fife,uk., 28/9/2009 7:01

I smell a pisstake/windup.

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Wonder how much longer it will be `FREEview` ??
- carly, St Helens England, 28/9/2009 8:25

What the hell does this have to do with anything? Seriously, how the hell have you leapt to this conclusion?

Thankfully a solid number of sensible comments there too.

Mr Mordon · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:24 am

When i was trying to explain this to my dad yesterday afternoon i had a feeling it might appear in the Mail :roll:

jonnyhead · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:16 am

Do none of these people have instructions for their Freeview boxes?

Picklechu2 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:01 pm **Posts:** 639

Thank God I gave up on TV back in 1983 ! !.Just think NO LICENCE Fee,No Mind numbing Trash programs,No Rip Off system conversions.Think of all the Money I've saved.TV ! !,you Can Live Without It You Know ! ! !.

- JohnB, Bristol.UK., 28/9/2009 9:52

Did you spend all the money you saved on extra capital letters and punctuation?

- Towsersnake, God's Own County, 28/9/2009 11:38

I win at teh internetz!

taffy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:47 pm **Posts:** 20

FFS

1) This isnt the first time the network has been re-jigged
2) My freeview box popped up the message the other day, just prompted me to push a button and it took care of the rest.

How hard can it be, and with all the other "so called" issues in the DM world why even waste time writing about it?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:04 am

Because it feeds the fear of change.

JamesFarrier · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:32 pm

From BBC website:

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ITV3, ITV4 and some BBC radio stations will also be affected. About 460,000 households are expected to permanently lose access to ITV3 and ITV4.

May go some way to explaining Mail's stance on the issue.

Killer Whale · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:01 pm

About 459,998 households are expected not to notice.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:02 pm

Oh noes!
U mean we will loze pwaro?

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3246

ITV is unmitigated shit. The only bright lights are the odd daytime show I watch that's an old primetime repeat, because I have sod all else to do.

ITV2s 'youth' advertising is terrifyingly appalling too.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:20 pm

I like Primeval.

LuciusAR · **Joined:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:09 am **Posts:** 766

Oh no, does this mean we will have to do without a crap film being shown every single night for a sodding week at a slightly different time each night? Seriously the other week on one of the ITV sub channels they showed Men in Black 2 for 3 nights in a bleeding row. On the plus side they did the same thing for Falling Down later on but I don’t want to watch it 3 times!

At least the Beebs freeview channels show some original programming even if it can be a bit hit and miss.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:23 pm

I've only ever watched ITV3/4 once, and that was when they used to show a second Champions League match on Tuesday evenings. Now even that's gone, who cares?

ACG · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:37 pm

i have to admit, i quite like itv4, even if only for its non stop repeats of "ufo" and "space 1999".

Citizen Smith · **Joined:** Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:12 am **Posts:** 569

Okay, this is starting to drive me to distraction now:

Freeview website crashes as millions log on to find out how to retune set-top boxes

Are we seriously to believe that there are people out there who are unable to retune their Freeview box and therefore have to resort to switching on their computer and logging on to the Freeview website?

This sums it up:

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A spokesman for Freeview said that more servers were being brought online to cope with the heavy demand and by midday the site was back up and running.

More than 1,300 people had called the Freeview helpline by 9am this morning, he said.

And he admitted that some viewers had been having problems retuning their boxes.

'We are finding that some people are trying to re-tune their equipment too early so we are just having to tell them that you really have to wait until after lunch before trying to re-tune,' he said.

Retune from lunchtime on 30 September
Retune from lunchtime on 30 September
Retune from lunchtime on 30 September
Retune from lunchtime on 30 September
Retune from lunchtime on 30 September

That's all we've heard or seen for the past few weeks.

So why THE FUCK would you be on the phone to Freeview or overloading their website at 9 FUCKING A FUCKING M?

And having vented my spleen in a suitably acerbic comment, I find that comments are being moderated on this 'story'. WHY?

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