Post by Chris J DixonI heard somewhere that a software update on a particular TV
deliberately removed the ability to create Favourites, and you
were stuck with the LCN order. It seemed to relate to
broadcasters aiming for low numbers and wanting to keep their
supposed advantage.
Yes, we fell foul of that on a Philips TV. We bought it because it had
the Favourites feature. I spent ages setting up favourites for
terrestrial and for satellite - even distinguishing between the various
ITV regions on satellite in case we wanted out-of-region local news
occasionally. Then a year or so later a software update removed the
favourites feature. And there was no way of reverting.
Philips claimed that they had been forced by Freeview and Freesat to
remove the feature in order to continue using the Freeview/Freesat
branding, and therefore that there was no way of re-enabling it or
reversing the software update.
Asking on this forum, the consensus was that it was bollocks that FV/FS
were forcing manufacturers to remove the feature.
The workaround was to claim to be located in a different country (ie not
UK) when doing a scan, and the feature magically reappeared. It removed
the knowledge of transmitter versus mux frequencies, so you had to do a
full-spectrum scan or enter the frequencies explicitly, instead of
entering postcode or region of UK, but that's no great hardship for
those who understand these things.
Particularly as for this TV, the "correct" transmitter for my postcode
is a different one from the one that my aerial and everyone else's in
the village is pointing at. Easier to remove the
too-clever-by-three-quarters logic and just do it manually.