There was a flurry of confusion for television watchers in Dubbo and surrounding areas on Wednesday after channels were required to be reprogrammed two weeks before the scheduled date.
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The retune is part of Australia's move to digital-only television.
As part of the process, some TV channels will be changing frequencies and therefore digital TVs, set-top boxes and digital TV recorders need to be retuned to find the channels that have moved.
The Dubbo transmission tower is scheduled to be retuned October 1 but digital media was flooded on Wednesday with responses from residents who found their TVs already had to be reprogrammed or those who had lost some channels but could still watch others.
Most Dubbo residents would rely on the Dubbo transmission tower for their channels, but due to location, for example the signal being blocked by a hill, antennas can rely on different towers to pick up a strong signal.
Because of this local residents may have been affected by the Central Western Slopes retune which occurred Wednesday.
Dubbo viewers may have experienced additional interruptions to their TV signal yesterday, according to a statement on the government's digital ready website.
"These potential interruptions are due to testing following recent retune work at Central Western Slopes," the statement read.
"The services affected and timing of outages will depend on the work required at Central Western Slopes."
To further confuse TV viewers, the website states Dubbo residents could experience interruptions or need to retune on September 29 and 30, as well as October 1 and 2.
The interruptions are due to "work being undertaken at the site" and "testing following recent retune work", the statement on the government website stated.
Most TVs in Australia will be affected by the retune, excluding those using the Viewer Access Satellite Television service, while some TVs may automatically detect changes to the channels and reprogram themselves.
The retune will take place across the country until the end of 2014.
To find out more information, including the retune dates, go to www.digitalready.gov.au/retune.