Digital Switchover – now it gets annoying

It’s getting annoying now.  That’s twice in two days that I’ve had to do a channel search for my Freeview box.  If I’d gone away for a couple of days and left it to record stuff, I’d have missed everything.  This morning instead of BBC1 I had a screen telling me that I hadn’t paid for “Rabbit Gay”.  Well, I’m not an expert on rabbits as such, but I know that I’ve no intention of paying for any channels and I’d probably pick to pay for movies before I’d pay to watch rabbits doing whatever rabbits do, regardless of their orientation.  More to the point, I doubt that even in this modern age, such a channel would be the right one to find The Sarah Jane Adventures, on first transmission at any rate.

I can understand one channel scan – we were all told to do that at the end of September, but making people do it repeatedly isn’t what I’d classify as customer service.  No doubt the saga will continue until the rest of the channels are switched over too.

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Friday 6 November 2009 - 8:09 am

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Friday 6 November 2009 - 12:41 pm

What a trauma! Much as I love rabbits, if I were looking for Bill Turnbull on BBC Breakfast, I’d be choking on my Earl Grey if that came up.

Hope it goes smoother up here next year – make sure Digital UK knows all about your experiences.



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