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Needed to tell someone - searched internet and no news...

I walked into my front room after being away for an hour or so and the screen had a static message about not being able to recieve China TV as I did not have a card etc... BIG logo on the screen

Anyway, thought 'what the frunk' and changed channels.

Laters...thought I was going mad...

But on BBC channels there is a ghost image (only visible on a light screen picture)

Reading it it says:

Welcome to China Central Television

You do not have a compatabile card reader....

..................

Difficult to read it all as it is a ghost.

Is this just me? LOL

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Where are you?

All transmissions in the UK are now digital. 'ghost' images should be history.

However, several digital channels share each single frequency (actual a frequency band) in the radio wave spectrum. The frequency is time sliced - so channel one will get 5% of each second of transmssion time, channel 2 will get 10% (higher bandwidth channel) and channel 3 20% (HD channel) etc. Numbers are examples, not real data.

Additionally, some channels share the same time slice slot, so BBC3 transmits in the evenings and CBBC in daytime on the same timeslice, and
the TV has to work out which channel to display on the screen. On some TVs, if you leave them switched on when the transition occurs, the TV gets confused, and leaves the transmission displaying overlaid with the 'Back at 7pm ' message.

This might be what happened to you.