There’s another warning from Freeview today and it could leave some homes facing issues when tuning into their favourite channels. The popular telly platform has just pushed out an urgent alert explaining that current weather conditions across the UK are wreaking havoc with the signal used to beam content to TVs. This means homes with Freeview might suffer from glitchy images and broken sound when they pop on their daily fix of entertainment. A similar alert was announced late last month.
The gremlins are due to a band of high pressure which is currently hovering over England and Wales. TV signals really don’t like these conditions and that’s why Freeview has felt the need to alert users.
“Freeview viewers across parts of England and Wales could see some disruption to their TV reception between Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th of February. This is due to high pressure which could disrupt the TV signals which Freeview uses,” Freeview confirmed in a post on its website.
The one thing you must not do is start trying to retune your telly as this will simply waste time and won’t improve things.
“You are advised not to retune your TV during this time – reception will be restored once the high pressure passes,” Freeview added.
If you have an internet-connected television and your signal is really poor right now then it’s worth seeing if Freeview Play is available on your screen. This service uses the internet instead of an aerial to access shows so it’s not affected by the weather.
For those not aware, Freeview Play launched back in 2015 and is host to more than 70 standard and a selection of HD live channels. There are also 30 radio stations and 12 on-demand players as well including BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Channel 4, My5, UKTV Play and the latest addition of S4C Clic. Those accessing the service will find around 60,000 hours of on-demand content to watch along with over 1,250 box sets.
