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13 June 2007, 02:27 PM
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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....
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....
13 June 2007, 02:33 PM
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13 June 2007, 02:49 PM
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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....
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....
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
13 June 2007, 03:19 PM
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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!
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!
13 June 2007, 03:51 PM
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In my case in deepest darkest Wokingham we had a very poor CH5 reception. Other channels were fine. Got Freeview (got it this year so behind the times as well ...) and all channels are dead clear. Worth it just for that. But they also have Ceebeebies etc for the lil' 'un ......
But it gets as bad as the US. Ads come on so you flick over to avoid them and they're on EVERY channel at the same time!! Aaarrggghhh ......
Dave
But it gets as bad as the US. Ads come on so you flick over to avoid them and they're on EVERY channel at the same time!! Aaarrggghhh ......
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13 June 2007, 04:28 PM
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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
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13 June 2007, 04:48 PM
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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.
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.
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13 June 2007, 04:53 PM
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Buy Philex Large High Gain TV Aerial. at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for Television aerials and boosters, Television aerials and boosters.
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13 June 2007, 04:59 PM
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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.
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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.
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.
14 June 2007, 10:26 AM
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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')
14 June 2007, 10:42 AM
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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.
14 June 2007, 11:35 AM
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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.
14 June 2007, 12:17 PM
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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
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
14 June 2007, 03:03 PM
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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..
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