For £30 - £40 you cannot go wrong. That's just like a Friday night out.

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Originally posted by antonOO2
i got one of these boxes in my room .
the best channels that i can get are

itv2
bbc3
sky sports news
2 music channels
the travel channel at night

there are quite a few others ,but they aint great

i had to get a new ariel

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so is it worth it or not?

what box recomended? bearing in mind i have to connect it somehow to my tv, dvd + s-s, ps2 and a vcr!

For some reason my channel 5 through my freeview (old ondigital) box doesn't work, but my ordinary channels 5 isn't too bad:lol:

It's not all that great, i agree with anton002.

i work for hughes electrial in east anglia, the cheaper ones as saxo said have one scart, the best one is the sony - £130 which has optical output but i always reccommend the panasonic at £99 as its easiest to use, we sell a pace one for £70 which is good to,
www.freeview.co.uk tells you how strong the signal is in the area not how good the receiver is, if you have a loft or rooftop ariel most people are fine

I work at Currys, the Ferguson one at £39.99 is no longer on offer at that price, there's one at £59.99 and £79.99, the main difference being that the one at £60 has only one scart socket and the other has two...

i got one of these boxes in my room .
the best channels that i can get are

itv2
bbc3
sky sports news
2 music channels
the travel channel at night

there are quite a few others ,but they aint great

i had to get a new ariel

ive got a set top box works fine with old aerial

Yep, personally i wouldn't get one cause the new channels are pretty wank, ITV2 only one worth getting, and maybe BBC3 other than that, their shit

shit thats expensive on ebay and in currys etc for some extra shitty channels

exactly, like i said, you probbly don't need an upgrade, but u won't be able to tell until the box is installed and setup n everything...

Get to Curry's or Dixons and they should be able to print you out a full list of the channels available to you

Basically for them to have made their checker they would have sent a team out everywhere with a device and also looked at the buildings to see whether they had a suitable aerial, only way they could do it IMO.

Also they would have had a device to determine whether that particular area had a strong enough signal strength for digital terrestrial.

[Edited on 19-11-2003 by AustinPXX]

All over the place on Ebay HERE

doh, I was looking at the one in currys for only £39 :D

on the freeview site I got this message?


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

do you think it says that to most people to cover its back? or is it just me?

thats shit everyone who pays tv licence shud get it free i mean wtf are we paying for then????

Did have some half price £40, but they sold out on the same day as advertised, company as a whole sold about 20,000 in one day apparently, cheapest now is £70-80 or so in Currys :p

u have to pay tho for the box thats wank

Yeah, get into Currys (or go to www.freeview.co.uk) and do a check on your post code, i know that i'm unable to recieve all the channels...

I personally, can't get ITV2 and that's the only real reason to get one.

As far as aerial upgrades go, very few people have to upgrade their aerials, although u won't know until you get the box and install it...

The channels are pretty wank really, ITV2, BBC New, Parliament n all that shite, BBC3,4,5 etc..etc... That's about it really... QVC, some other shopping channels, and then a few radio channels...

[Edited on 19-11-2003 by Cavey]

Anyone got this?

I'm considering buying one of these free view digital boxes, because they're quite cheap now and I get bored only having 5 channels. Even though the extra channels you get are a bit crap, its still a change and there's supposed to be more coming soon.

The thing is, how many of you who have this have had to have your ariel changed?

I read somewhere that some people that buy the box won't be able to use it on their existing ariel? anyone know if this is true?

Paul J