I'm about five years behind but we got a freeview digi box last night and I'm most impressed!

Last week we had very poor reception on FOUR channels (!), then we got an engineer out, got the signal amplified (so FIVE channels) and now we have about 40 channels all with crisp reception!
A lot of cack but I like BBC3, E4 and a few others very much indeed.
Not much of a TV watcher but it's nice to have to choice now.

Splendid.

Back to my cave....

 

Welcome to the real world

A lot of repeats and rubbish, but if you weed out the chaff then there is some good viewing to be had.

Oh, and Film4 is the place to be.

 

That's why I still don't have freeview, or Sky, Cable etc.

Too much sh*te on 5 channels, let alone 500 channels.

TBH I've thought about freeview, but looking at the listings most of the BBC3, ITV2 etc is all repeats of BBC1,2 & ITV1 programmes.

When they allow Hardcore **** to be screened legally, then I'll sign up


Just to see what all the fuss is about .......... of course

 

Stilover - it improved our picture a fair bit too which was handy.
Not into commercial cack (Paul McKenna pushing some crappy diet thing for ages last night!!) but I'm getting a bit old now so the odd documentary and 24 hours news suit me fine whilst I've got my slippers and beige cardigan on!

 

Matteeboy, are you listed as being in a freeview area? we're not so get intermittant reception and wondered if theres something that could be done

 

i recomend Sky+, i work shifts and dont miss anything! plus pausing live tv to get another beer is great!

 

Freeview is fab for nothing. much better than getting ripped off by cable for the same channels.

thing with digital TV is you either get a perfect picture or you get nothing. if you have ok ish reception it should be fine.

5t.

 

Were not listed as a freeview area, i upgraded to a high Gain ariel & that improved things considerably
Buy Philex Large High Gain TV Aerial. at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for Television aerials and boosters, Television aerials and boosters.

Cheers

Dean

 

Despite being in Cornwall, we get the full range of channels.
See, we're not ALL backward!

However we did have cack "normal" reception so got an engineer round who fitted a high gain amplifier which worked a treat (and got the aerial re-routed) - he had some device which showed a good digital signal but it needed amplifying.

 

Have to agree, Freeview does the job and keeps my little daughter happy with CBeebies.

So many of my mates have SKY and all they do is channel hop! Sometimes they SKY+ things and never get around to watch what they have recorded.

 

Cheers will look into that. We are in a crap reception area next to woods so normal tv is fuzzy even with booster box, so somethings up with the aerial im sure. Will get an engineer to check to see if its worth upgrading to one of these high gain aerials & also to cable into the bedrooms as all the connections dont seem to work (have recently moved in - i think they were 'fake selling features')

 

I recommend a Freeview PVR. You don't pay a subscription, you have pause/rewind live TV, record 100+ hours of programs and with the model I have, record two things at once while watching a previously recorded program. I can even move stuff to DVD if I really want to keep it long term.

 

I've not got one but im thinking of geting one tho.. which Freeview PVR would you say is a good one to check out or get ??

 

PVRs are great - transformed our viewing, ours is a Digifusion, but they don't make these any more. I found this site very useful

Personal Video Recorders - Digital Spy Forums

And the AV forums as well

BTW we live in an area where the reception is poor and we're not supposed to be able to get digi, but we can

 

I can only comment on the one I have. It's a Topfield TF5800 PVR (160gb model, though they do a 250gb one as well). It's not the cheapest, and they may be other out there that can do similar things, BUT the thing I really like about this one is that you can download and install additional programs called TAPs that can change anything from the way certain features look (eg, the EPG (electronic program guide), timer listings screen, program archive), to adding new functionality (serial linking, program searches, modifying the font panel display, MP3 playing, photo slideshows). There's even some modded firmware available. Take a look at Welcome to Toppy.org.uk. There's a forum there that is quite active as well.

I actually recommended the Topfield to another Scoobynet user. See links

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...recorders.html

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...grrrrrrrr.html

As I said, you can probably find other twin tuner PVR about, but I doubt you would get the same level of user contributed advice and with the addition of the TAP functions it's a "can't live without" piece of kit in our house now..

 

This is starting to hurt my head now!

PVRs, TAP functions?!

It's only a bleedin telly!

 

It is if you still live in the 20th Century...

 

I'm a hifi man, not a TV man - Got a flatscreen to hide the thing away!