Freeview

[Kinky Gerbil]

Was thinking of getting it, is it worth it?

 

[Rangdo]

Was thinking of getting it, is it worth it?

Is it worth nothing? Yes it is.

 

[itszamora]

For a one off payment its pretty decent as it gets you some decent channels in digital, which is much better quality. Nothing like the choice of Sky though.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

do you get e4?

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Nope.

ITV 2 can be useful for a bit of choice when the Champions League games are on, and BBC 3 has the odd good thing on it, although the best bits come to the terrestial channels in time. It's okay, worth a poke.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

can i poke you?

 

[Mr Fridge]

No you have to pay extra for it. (E4 that is its on top-up tv).

Freeview is OK if you have nothing else, after all eventually we will all need something else as the current signal is getting switched off.

I have freeview in the bedroom (and on the main TV but only as its a DVB I don't use the DVB section as it is currently to difficult to record using the signal and I prefer the old clunkey text to digital text.)

 

[Safeway]

It's alright, I s'pose.

 

[Little Piggy]

You get a couple of music channels as well. They are just pop rubbish on a little loop really, but since most pop videos these days are an excuse to show women with hardly anything on, its all good stuff.

Go get it.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

yes pop shit rubbish that would be bad............

 

[Safeway]

Sky Sports News is probably the biggest plus. I can watch that for HOURS.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I got a Grundig Freeview and it's OK apart from it doesn't get any of the ITV channels. No ITV1, no ITV2, no Channel 4. Well it does once in a blue moon if I retune it, then it fizzes and squeaks and generally protests before blanking the picture out with a 'Bad signal' message. (Is there some other gizmo I should be buying anyone know?). But all the Beeb channels are crystal clear including BBC3, BBC4 and listening to Five Live on it now. Also gets Channel 5 - which is more than terrestial manages here in BN1. Loads of Hits-type audio channels and there's more being added all the time. OK most of them are crap like the Christian channel and the Country & Western channel - but it's nice to know they're there for some reason. Well worth it, especially now as they're about thruppence in Argos.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Mine struggles to get Sky Sports News or any of the Music Channels, so I guess it varies with area.

 

[towbarball]

Install a 10x booster on to your signall.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Install a 10x booster on to your signall.

Cheers Tho where would I get one? What would I ask for? What would I plug it into? What would it cost? Would it get GOSBTS ringtones? When are the fixtures out?

Well?

 

[ro's pants]

Cheers Tho where would I get one? What would I ask for? What would I plug it into? What would it cost? Would it get GOSBTS ringtones? When are the fixtures out?

Well?

get one from maplins on london road, start at about 15 quid

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

get one from maplins on london road, start at about 15 quid

Thanks

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

do you get e4?

You can now get E4

 

[surrey jim]

you can get e4 on freeview now, top-up-tv gets uk gold, eurosport, cartoon network, uk style, bloomberg, discovery channel and more for £7.99 a month
in my view not worth it

 

[Cian]

TUTV also only gets between 3 and 4 of those channels at any one time

Go for it, its free. I can get the BBC and ITV Freeview channels here on a good day, but even my dual high gain wideband antennas can't quite push the other muxes high enough to be anything but garbled noise. Which is odd, as I get the analogue UK channels quite well...