Freeview Question

[Kinky Gerbil]

Thinking about getting a free view box at last, just a couple of questions though.

1. does it matter what box you get? do the cheaper ones have less recieving power?

2.when wimbledon comes can i select the courts i want too and watch interactive stuff?

cheers

 

[John Boy]

2. Yes

 

[seagurn]

You can also get onesthat record a different channel to the one youre watching but they cost about£120 compaired to £25

 

[Barrel of Fun]

1. I have a cheap box and it is not as good as the box my parents have. Basically a decent box will be much easier to use. My advice would be to go to wherever you are buying from and try them out.

 

[dougdeep]

You can get televisions with it built in now.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

1. I have a cheap box and it is not as good as the box my parents have. Basically a decent box will be much easier to use. My advice would be to go to wherever you are buying from and try them out.

Is that all it means, easier to use?

I really dont see the point of spending more money on something that does the same when only im going to see it?

 

[John Boy]

If you have an old TV ariel, you might need to have it upgraded

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Is that all it means, easier to use?

I really dont see the point of spending more money on something that does the same when only im going to see it?

I think the signal is generally stronger as well.

Have a browse over this...


http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_...s/Set_top_boxes_essential_guide_574_69750.jsp

If that links doesn't work - go to www.which.co.uk and search freeview.

 

[Gully]

I have a Pace Digibox, it is almost 5 years old, with a freeview card. I can't fault it at all, it is easy to use, even for a techno-phobe like me. I get all the Beeb (including the interactive and multi-screen stuff) and Itv channels, loads of radio channels, etc, etc.

Think it cost me about £100 when I bought it from new, reckon you could pick one up from e-bay complete with card for a fraction of that.

 

[Clothes Peg]

1. I have a cheap box and it is not as good as the box my parents have. Basically a decent box will be much easier to use. My advice would be to go to wherever you are buying from and try them out.

Strangely, in the same house and through the same aerial, the cheaper box picks up slightly better signal than the expensive at my parents' place. The cheap one was about £20 from Tesco. The more expensive ones sometimes have more features, like 7 day EPG instead of 24hours.

It is important that you have a good aerial and are not surrounded by obstructions. Even tall trees can make a difference in areas with poor coverage.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

You only get the choice of 2 extra courts (other than the ones on BBC1/2) when it comes to Wimbledon

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Strangely, in the same house and through the same aerial, the cheaper box picks up slightly better signal than the expensive at my parents' place. The cheap one was about £20 from Tesco. The more expensive ones sometimes have more features, like 7 day EPG instead of 24hours.

It is important that you have a good aerial and are not surrounded by obstructions. Even tall trees can make a difference in areas with poor coverage.

I was going for the tesco one!

 

[Clothes Peg]

I was going for the tesco one!

I found it fine to be honest. So go for it, plus you get Clubcard points

 

[clapham_gull]

I've got one of these


http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/sto...m=null&tm=null&sku=291542&category_oid=-28637

Actually about £15 cheaper than when I bought it.


I've had a cheap one and she went down on me after a couple of weeks.


Also - you MUST have a scart socket on the TV, only very few freeview boxe can use the older RF connection.

 

[Cian]

I have a Pace Digibox, it is almost 5 years old, with a freeview card. I can't fault it at all, it is easy to use, even for a techno-phobe like me. I get all the Beeb (including the interactive and multi-screen stuff) and Itv channels, loads of radio channels, etc, etc.

Think it cost me about £100 when I bought it from new, reckon you could pick one up from e-bay complete with card for a fraction of that.

Pace... digibox... card...

Thats Sky Freesat not Freeview.

 

[Gully]

Is it, OK, stand corrected...only bought the damn thing because I was living in the Netherlands and couldn't get cable, at least it gave me some live UK tv and radio.

 

[Marshy]

get one with a hdd

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I've had two in BN1. Neither got any of the ITV channels. Not the fault of the digibox, it'sdown to the aerial. But there's still enough good stuff on there to make it worthwhile. The cheapest are as good as the most expensive IMHO, apart from they maybe don't let you delete all the shite Bid-Up / Buy Shit Jewellery channels. Personally, I'd go for the cheapest, you'll still get about 30 TV channels and the same number of radio channels that you never had before. and all for a one-off payment of 20-30 quid. Be rude not to, aye?

 

[Wozza]

Freeview for a tenner - http://www.richersounds.com/showpro...-D2B-NEW&SID=bc53be732eaba67f988cfde0c63abb64

 

[London Calling]

or just look at one of those hi-fi/media/tv review magazines and look at the reviews...........