A Freeview retune can preserve recordings while clearing future timers
Freeview warns that retuning may clear favourites and scheduled recordings while completed recordings should remain. Check future timers after updating the channel list.
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Wrong Freeview regional news: check the 800s before starting again
Freeview can tune more than one transmitter. Your preferred regional service may already be in the 800s before a manual retune is needed.
Freeview picture works after a retune but the programme guide is empty
Freeview says guide information can take five to ten minutes to populate after a retune. Separate an empty schedule grid from a channel that cannot play.
A replay opens in a Freeview Play app but not from the backwards guide
If the same episode plays directly in its broadcaster app, Freeview Play’s backwards-guide handover is a more specific problem than total internet failure.
Channel 100 on Freeview Play is a discovery area, not one new broadcaster
Freeview Play’s channel 100 opens Explore, bringing search, recommendations, player access and help together. It is a navigation area rather than one broadcaster’s linear schedule.
Freeview live channels work while on-demand does not: check the separate connection
Freeview Play combines broadcast reception with internet features. Working aerial channels do not by themselves prove the online player connection is working.