At the start of 2008, during an upgrade to the Freeview transmitter serving the West Midlands, a number of Freeview set-top boxes stopped working. After investigation, it was uncovered that Freeview boxes made by Bush, Daewoo, Labgear, Portland and Triax would be unable to receive Freeview after this transmitter update. As a result, from the 28th of May 2008, households served by the Sutton Coldfield transmitter that owned one of these boxes, found they were left with a useless set-top box. Boxes in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Tyne Tees region are also starting to fail. A potential third of a million Freeview boxes could be affected.

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Hopefully my Sony's are OK - still working at the moment.

I suppose set-top boxes are replaceable but if the built in decoder starts to fail then there's a serious problem.

Update:

Top Up TV boxes: It also appears that the Top Up TV Anytime boxes made by Thomson are also affected by these upgrades - but this is only a problem if users perform a channel rescan. A fix appeared at the end of July to fix this - Top Up v2.93 patch.

Sony TVs: Reports are appearing that some IDTV sets (TVs with built-in Freeview tuners) are having problems, most notably some Sony models. Sony are promising an over-the-air fix from 8th Sept 2008. Further details of products affected and fixes are available here: Sony television will not re-tune and locks up.

Phew - not on the list - KDL26A12U