The Big Switch Off

[TerryC]

It appears that at 19.40 yesterday evening we finally lost British TV. I presume we are not the only ones. We switched to Spanish TV watched through an arial into the back of the TV. Despite setting Audio and subtitle to English all the English language films and programmes were in Spanish, is there a solution to this please?

[satandpcguy]

No big switch off yet, as the new satellite has not even been launched yet - which is around the 15-17th September. Even then they have a few weeks of tests before it becomes operational.

And the signals from the satellite are still there... so any reception problems are at your end...

As for English on TDT - only one or two channels use the word" English" on them - Disney and Discovery I think.
All others use a number of different "tags" for the second audio language - like DOS< MUL, QAA, VO, - simply because they broadcast programmes from a number of countries, not just us and UK! So if you set the TV to look for "English" audio, then if the channel is using one of these other tags, it will not get English audio!

[malagaman2005]

Definitely a problem with your equipment Terry, no problems here and as satandpcguy says nothing likely to happen until Oct/Nov

[El Cid]

There were some huge thunderstorms around yesterday evening. All you need is a thundercloud full of rain between you and the satellite to blank the signal entirely.

That is almost certainly the cause of your problem.

Sid

[carrowcrin]

I cannot answer the princible part of your question, my own suituation is that i just have the ariel.
Not all of the films that were made originally in english will let you have the option of changing the language setting to english.

[Wicksey]

For quite a while after buying our TV I thought we couldn't get programmes in the original language .... then I re-read the instruction manual .

I found that apart from setting the language in the main menu to English, each time I watched a programme I had to press the yellow button on the handset. Then I got a drop down menu on screen with the option of Spanish or 'qaa'/ 'unknown' etc which I clicked on and Ok'd, and suddenly the programme was in its original language. I have 2 TVs and on one I have to set each channel using the yellow button, whilst on the other I can just set it through the main menu. It works very well although some series that had previously been on UK TV like Inspector Montalbano weren't much good as they went into their original Italian.

It may be that there is a different system for your TV Carrowcrin.