Freeview

[Cyfr]

Just been to Agros to get freeview box so I can watch Little Britain tonight on BBC3.. they asked for postcode and said 'It might work, but you might need a new areial' and theres no money back on it, so if it dosnt work you are fucked unless you want to lash out on a new areial? What sort of crapy shit is that

Surly nearly all items should have money back guarantee?

I want to watch Little Britain

I'll just have to get it via other means if they are going to be silly about it

 

[babs]

Why don't you try it first and see, worry about the rest later.

 

[Trem]

I use mine on a crappy internal aerial. I don't get all the channels but the BBC ones are spot on. Just go and buy it and stop worrying, it will be fine.

 

[Clown]

If your regular channels are fine through your aerial then chances are most of the freeview ones will. I would probably get one if our aerial actually worked here. Had to get cable just to have decent (very good now) reception for the terrestrial channels.

 

[Cyfr]

Why don't you try it first and see, worry about the rest later.

because Ive either lost £50 from the freeview box or have to spend yet more money on a new areial

Edit this is what freeview.com says:

FREEVIEW covers your area for the postcode xxx xxx but you probably need a new type of aerial.

The search indicates that FREEVIEW covers your postcode but as well as an box (or integrated digital television) you probably need a new type of rooftop aerial.

Why a different aerial?

Because FREEVIEW signals in this area use a different transmitter or frequency than your existing analogue television. Unless you already have one, you need a different type of rooftop aerial for digital reception. We recommend a "wideband" aerial.

 

[Brynn]

I was hoping this was gunna be about freeview on the porn channels

 

[Bodhi]

Freeview is unbelievably shit.



Oh and so is Little Britain.



Makes sense that Cyfr wants the former to watch the latter then innit.

 

[Mobius]

Little Britain is good, but Freeview is shit. Have you looked for a feed online? I know people have foreign sports channels and some porno channels playing on the internet.

 

[Wij]

Little Britain is good, but Freeview is shit. Have you looked for a feed online? I know people have foreign sports channels and some porno channels playing on the internet.

gifv !

 

[~Yuckfou~]

There's porn on the internet?

 

[Jonaldo]

Where is the internet and what does it do?

 

[inactionman]

I want to watch Little Britain

I'll just have to get it via other means if they are going to be silly about it

Yeah download it off emule like I don't do to US shows....

 

[Tom]

They won't give you any money back because there is nothing wrong with the Freeview box. What you're suggesting is like if you bought a car, and then demanded your money back because you lived in a cave and you couldn't drive the car up the mountain.

If you can receive C5 ok then you should be alright. It only costs about £30 to get a new aerial installed anyway. Even so, you might get away with a high gain antenna for about £20 and pointing it in the right direction in your loft.

 

[rynnor]

They won't give you any money back because there is nothing wrong with the Freeview box. What you're suggesting is like if you bought a car, and then demanded your money back because you lived in a cave and you couldn't drive the car up the mountain.

This is true but there is a way around it - if you state at the time of purchase that you want it to do x then this becomes part of the contract and if your new purchase doesnt do x then you can get your money back (or sue em for mis-representation).

In this case I'd try a few different shops for one that assures you it will work where you live then if it doesnt you can take it back...

 

[Tom]

I doubt that would work unless you were also paying for them to install it. So long as they say 'it will work fine provided you can receive an adequate signal' then you've got no chance.

 

[Ch3tan]

Why not just get it from another retailer who will exchange and or refund if it doesnt work with your ariel?

As long as you bring it back in its original condition, with its nice packaging its fine. Just be honest and ask when you buy it and you'll get an honest answer.

I have taken back lots of freeview boxes from customers who couldnt use them, its unfit for the purpose it was bought for if they cant receive the channels they want.

 

[WPKenny]

If the website says you can then they should do a refund if it doesn't work. Dixons refused to sell me a box when I told them I'd checked online and it said I couldn't receive it. Yet I got hold of one from Safeways (when it WAS Safeways) and it worked-ish. Good enough to watch little britan I suppose.

All I had to do first was hook my tv cable up to my neighbour's aerial cos our's was pointing at the "best" transmitter, only it doesn't send a digital signal so I had to use a worse transmiter that did provide a digital feed.

The box went tits up after a while and now we've got Sky.

 

[caLLous]

If you can get it "via other means" then why bother with any of this bollocks?

 

[tRoG]

I like Freeview. For what you pay (If you can get all the channels ), it is good.

That is all.

 

[Cask]

Bit of a cuntish thing to do making us pay for our television license and pay for a freeview box as well to watch their digital channels. Surprised they aren't pushing the freeview boxes themselves.

I want a discount on my TV license seeing that I only get half as many channels as the rich freeview box owning aristocracy with their country mansions and luxury yachts. Bastards.

 

[WPKenny]

Newer tv's come with digital tuners built in. Upgrade to the new millenium man!

 

[dysfunction]

Newer tv's come with digital tuners built in. Upgrade to the new millenium man!

Its funny how those TV's cost £50 to £100 more than the ones without...

 

[Bodhi]

Well not really. The digital tuners are more parts they have to put into the telly, which means they cost more to make, a cost which is punted on to the consumer. How business works innit.

 

[dysfunction]

Then you might as well just buy the freeview box...is what my point is

 

[WPKenny]

Not if it needs another plug and somewhere to put the box. It's far neater to have it in the telly itself. Or do you still have a CD drive, a CD-rewriter, a DVD drive and a seperate DVD writer?

My point...why buy 2 boxes when one box contains all you need?

 

[Guest]

Get a job, pay for NTL/Sky, nuff said

Altho buying a freeview box just to watch one tv program you cant get atm is like buying a new pc with a uber gfx card just so you can play Doom3.

 

[Tom]

Do the integrated sets offer audio/video out for recording with a VCR?

Does that mean you need the TV on to record the digital channels?

 

[babs]

Get a job, pay for NTL/Sky, nuff said

'I'm sorry sir, that tree in your front garden is too big, no signal, you can't have Sky I'm afraid'.

That angered me a few years back.

 

[venus]

me and SAS have got freeview and we have just set it up through the tv aerial we already had and it works fine. We dont get all of the channels but we get itv2 all the bbc channels, few music ones, the news ones and sport. If the weather is particularly bad then sometimes it kicks up but generally its ok.

 

[nath]

Cable/Sky is awful tbh, utter criminal waste of money :\