Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Guess the majority of peeps here are SKY Digital or summat but we've never been drawn by the lure of having to pay £30 per month on top of the TV licence & then pay extra for movies etc.

Anyhow, Ch5 here in the boonies has been cr@p & as its really good for kiddies in the morning, we've been missing it

So we got the local TV engineer in to have a look-see what he could do & he reckoned he could get Freeview, despite not being in an aledged cover area

Off to Currys for a £60 box, a new hi-gain aerial & we're digitised

Loads of extra choice + Ceebeebies [sp] which'll be great for Ez & its all FREE




Shame Broadband is not so available

dsmith

Puff - Almost all exchanges had a trigger level annouced yesterday.

I've got 102/250 (some are as low as 100 - some 500). There is light at the end of the tunnel (even it is quite dim, flickering and a long way off!)

http://62.172.198.79/broadband1/update/index.asp

Deano

jono400

Currys were doing them at £40. offer finished now thou, argos also have a £40 deal until this wed ?? but unfortunately all sold out already !! at least in scotland ??!! so but there may be other offers out there for these freeview boxes ?? believe sainsbuuys do them for £50 ?? anyone advise me anywhere else doing them cheaper ?? will possibly require two off them.

cheers,
john..

corradoboy

Richer Sounds have repackaged Grundigs for £40, or new ones from £50.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

Thanks Deano ya ho you

Get my hopes up only to have 'em dashed

60 people registered & trigger level of...




























































































































350

Not before the next fecking centuary

IWatkins

Thanks Deano.

Just found out my exchange has been triggered and is due in Feb 2004. About time too.

Cheers

Ian

dsmith

Ian, bragging wont win you any friends in the "Scoobynetters from rural suffolk with BB still a dream" society

Puff you fancy being chairman - I'll be treasurer . Andy can be secretary - until he deserts

Deano

[Edited by dsmith - 11/18/2003 10:10:55 PM]

Robertio

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Tried to get Freeview in the house, but it was having none of it Nice to have a chunk of my tv license going into channels I can't get without paying for cable

dr_ming

Aerial: £20 to £25 for a halfway decent one. Installer: anything from £50 to £250 depending on where they have to put it, the quality of the materials used, and the time/care they take over pointing it in the right direction.

[Edited by dr_ming - 11/18/2003 10:30:39 PM]

Adrian F

I have cable with the basic channels free can i just buy a Free view decoder or do i need a roof top ariel as well?

Gus M

Has anyone checked what is available on Freeview?
It's all crap, that's why you get it for nothing.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Gus

Its 30+ more channels of (cr@p) choice than we had before

IWatkins

Worth digital radio on its own, much better quality than DAB.

If your Freeview box has an optical/coax audio output, hook it up to your AV Receiver and listen to concerts in Pro Logic II. Makes it all worthwhile.

Also being able to receive CH5 makes it worth it (sometimes).

But best of all, on Freeview, just about everything is sent widescreen (unlike analogue terrestial).

Defo worth the money and hassle of setting it up.

Cheers

Ian

Diesel

ITS WIDESCREEN????

Well there is a clincher...

Is it proper 'anamorphic' 16:9 full frame widescreen and not just blown up in the box with a £5 chip????

D

(Curious)

gimlet

I pay £18/month for my sky channels. I don't have the movie or sports stuff.

The reason I went for it initially was because the local terrestrial reception was cr@p.

The picture quality we get now on satellite is excellent, so I'm very pleased.

I guess it really depends on what sort of TV channels you want. Personally, I'm happy with the cheapo package, as we get UKGold, GPlus, all the Discovery channels, kids stuff, news etc. In fact, I think the only things we don't get are the sky movies, sky sports and some of the Disney stuff.

grovesy

I pay £38 for the full monty on Sky very nice.

Plus 40 quid for the premiership plus. £1 a game very cheap.

I dont see the point in free view £80 for a box to watch 8 BBC channels that repeat BBC1 sh1te

IWatkins

Diesel,

Yep, pukka 16:9. OK, not every programme is sent widescreen but most (normal channels) are and they fill the frame on my Sony widescreen with the TV set to "Wide". I.e. they are not simply reshaping the image to fit, it is proper wide.

The only programme that I'm really suprised they don't do in widescreen is the ITV news. What's that all about ?

Cheers

Ian

Gus M

Puff,

At least you will get superior terrestrial channel picture quality.

[Edited by Gus M - 11/19/2003 9:06:08 AM]

Wurzel

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why is it called FREEVIEW when you still need a tv licence??????

Scoobychick

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Puff yhm

D6ale

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i wanted freeview, so i went down to speak to the bloke in comet. He said because i cant get reception for channel 5. I wont be able to get freeview.

stupid system if u ask me.

and i seem to remember when channel 5 came out, They said in about 3 years everyone will be able to recieve it? how come i still cant???

IWatkins

Do you really believe anything the guys in Comet (Dixons/Currys/PC World etc.) tell you ? I certainly don't

Can't get CH5 here on analogue terrestial, never have been able to. But we can get digital terrestial no problem and that includes CH5.

Cheers

Ian

Diesel

Agree Ian - this is why I watch BBC news; it fills my screen!!!

Also Parkinson is 4:3 - very strange that as any decent studio will have 16:9 switchable cameras.... They wouldnt survive otherwise! No broadcaster will take delivery of a 4:3 tape these days, and if you send them one it better have an antique certificate to get them off yer back! CD:UK is unfortunately 4:3 too but I'm in on that chat at the mo'

Off to get a box