Freeview

Advantages: good amount of channels
Disadvantages: need a good aerial

...Freeview is a supplier of Digital TV within the United Kingdom which requires no subscription, and no annual contract History of Freeview Freeview was originally launched on October 2002 at 6am, after it took over the DTT licence to broadcast on the 3 multiplexes which were from the defunct ITV digital service, and ONdigital. As part of a survey, undertaken in 2007, it was revealed that over 36% of the UK were receiving freeview, as a source of their digital TV. In the future, High definition programming is expected to launch on the freeview platform Equipment There are various different set top boxes available, which acts as a freeview receiver. The price of these varies, some as cheap as £10! However, nowadays, freeview offer a new type of set top box, called FREEVIEW PLAYBACK, which enables you to pause, rewind...

RyanC92 14.04.2008 · Read review
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  Freeview - Jump Before You're Pushed

Advantages: Just one up-front cost. No subs. Extra channels. Proper widescreen output
Disadvantages: Needs a good aerial. A limited list of subscription channels muddies the waters somewhat.

...existed before, even via an aerial, and OnDigital, later ITV Digital (and then OnDigital again*) were the first to try this. Their offering was a mixture of free-to-air (e.g. BBC and ITV channels) and subscription channels, like Sky One. There were even a handful of pay-TV movie channels, although compared to Sky's Box Office, with the same movie starting every 30 minutes on a clutch of channels, this facility was definitely the poor relation. *They changed it back to OnDigital once the receivers were called in to save the 'good names' of Carlton and Granada. Good name?! Anyway, the fact that OnDigital folded in a spectacular manner is well documented. I guess Freeview could be called 'son of On', but with a few major changes. One, there were less channels, which gave the launch of Freeview a boost in picture quality allowing...

BNibbles 03.11.2003 (23.04.2008) · Read review
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Freeview - The clue is in the name!

Advantages: Lots of choice, up to date TV guide & text services.
Disadvantages: Have to buy a box of course!

...When a friend of mine decided to upgrade to Sky + with HD I inherited his Freeview box for free. It was around £29.99 brand new about 3-4 years ago from Tesco. Freeview is very simple to set up, you just connect it to your TV by a scart lead & then plug your TV aerial in to the back of the box. You can then do a scan and it will pick up all channels in your area. If you do not have the best signal you can use a signal booster or a signal amplifier to enhance your signal but please note that this will not work if you are not in a Freeview receiving area. I will not bore you with channel lists etc, if you want to see what channels are available as well as see if your postcode is a Freeview enabled area then please visit www.freeview.co.uk The website is very informative and I have used the Freeview box in 4 or 5 seperate locations...

katyeverett 23.05.2009 · Read review
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  Freeview - The TV Service Of The Future.

Advantages: More Choice, Better Quality, Radio & Interactive Services
Disadvantages: Only covers 74% of the UK

...and in October of next year Whitehaven will have completed its DSO. However, its not all that scary. Digital Television is not about confusing buttons, dialogues and hefty remotes; in fact there is no need to be scared - Digital Television can truly be as simple, if not simpler than your current analogue television. For a one of payment, usually from as little as £30 you can purchase a Freeview receiver which will connect to your current TV as long as it has a scart socket and a good analogue reception. Freeview can currently be received by an estimated 74% percent of UK homes and this figure is the maximum capacity which can be achieved until DSO is complete in 2012 when the government estimates that 98.5% of UK homes should be able to receive Freeview. The best way to determine whether or not you should be able to receive Freeview...

Ross-Murray 27.10.2006 (03.03.2007) · Read review
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Freeview

Advantages: Free TV Guide, Exellent Picture Quality, No Subscription
Disadvantages: Needs a digital aerial (£20-£30)

...I have recently bought a freeveiw reveiver and am amazed with the quality of the picture and features included with it. First off all, you get Interactive TV without have to pay a single subscription fee. The interactive feature is very useful as you can check, for example: What is on TV (now, next or later on) The results of your football or rugby team. The news and weather The lottery numbers, and much more. Also, with Freeview, every channel has the capability of subtitles for the hearing impaired and a descrition of the program that you are watching at the moment. When I first used my Freeveiw set I was amazed that I was able to achieve high quality digital pictures from a small box which can be set up in under two minutes. Before I had my Freeview recivever I had to bear with a regular reception which was not...

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Long time Freeview

Advantages: Anamorphic Widescreen, no fee, good range of devices, not proprietry, good colour performance, 7 Day Electronic Programme Guide (EPG).
Disadvantages: Poor bit rates and resolution on some channels, often need new aerials

...? ---------------------------------------- Signal quality is more important than strength, too much signal boosting is worse than not enough, if at all unsure get a good aerial installer to check the system. If you have old coax you may need new cable CT100 is what you need to use as it is better shielded than the old brown cable. There are also advanced aerials to improve reception, a digital aerial is a misnomer, there are no differences. What can I pick it up on? --------------------------------- Integrated Digital TV (IDTV), seperate box, PVR, some DVD recorders. Seperate boxes appeared in 1998 with the launch on OnDigital, these boxes will still work but are slow and bulky compared to todays, IDTVs appeared in 1999 with the first Sony ones being good sellers and the first premium digital TV product, PVRs appeared about a year after Freeview started with the arrival...

MartinImber 14.03.2007 · Read review
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A little box called FREEVIEW

Advantages: One of payment , NO CONTRACT!!!
Disadvantages: SEE REVIEW

...Freeview is a new television package, which allows you to update your television from the normal BBC1+2, ITV1 and CHANNELS4+5. This little box is amazing it give you more of a selection of programs to choose from. Freeview has something for everyone. Even children of all ages. ***Channels Included in Package*** BBC 1,2,3 + 4 (BBC 3 = Comedy Channel) (BBC4 = Learning Channel) ITV 1+ 2 (ITV 2 = The only way to get this is by getting Freeview) Channels 4 + 5 Some restricted Sky channels like: Sky Travel, News, Sports News (Please note you can’t watch full feature games on these) UK History QVC TV Travel Shop (See holidays Online The Hits (Music Channel with videos) UK Bright Ideas (Not during the night time there is not) FTN TMF (Music Channel with videos) Bid-Up TV (Auction like TV) Price-Drop TV (Buy products...

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One stop HDD/DVD recorder and Freeview with photo support

Advantages: It's a Sony, fully compatible with existing kit and buckets of features
Disadvantages: Not as cheap as third party units

...The Sony RDR-HXD995 is a combined DVD and hard disk recorder with built in analogue and freeview tuners with analogue and digital outputs. It could be seen as providing the same functionality of several ?set top boxes? namely a freeview receiver, DVD player/recorder (as well as supporting Audio CD) and a Hard Disk recorder ? giving essentially the same functionality as a VCR machine. The main advantage of such a system is that it greatly simplifies wiring it all up to your TV set, as well as providing a much neater package, and of course, works from a single remote control. Additional benefits include support for USB devices, allowing audio and picture files to be transferred from mp3 players, cameras etc, as well as letting you print directly to a ?pict bridge? printer, obviating the need for a computer. Being Sony, it...

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Freeview, Free channels yessssssssssss.... Y E S

Advantages: Film 4, Sky news, History channel
Disadvantages: Maybe those annoying QVC channels, no Sports channels as of yet.

...At last we now have the house completely conquered by Freeview. The 4 and a bit TV channels have now gone 30+ channels overnight with no more fuzzy vision. Freeview is a giant step in the right direction for all us telly addicts (news buffs), it now allows us to access endless amount of channels from the use of our existing outdoor/indoor ariel, various stations you can pick up whilst using a freeview box are 2 News channels (sky news,BBC 24) , 2 pop ,4 qvc's, 2 kids, 1 film (film 4), ITV 2.3.4 , BBC 3.4, History,E4. More 4 and 3 US channels to name a few also you will have many radio stations to choose from that you also can hear from your exsiting TV set. (awesome) Being that this is Freeview digital which works in a completely different way than the old analogue, the days of blurred or fuzzy vision are over for good. From now...

RED_WINE 22.06.2007 · Read review
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A - Z of Freeview

Advantages: Cheap, feature packed, easy to use!
Disadvantages: Not in all areas, yet.

...There's been a lot of confusing information regarding Freeview, so I'll put it to rest and give you the A-Z of Freeview. Well, it's a joint venture between the BBC and British Sky Broadcasting, aiming to get everyone digital as soon as possible. That's right; Freeview is digital television via your aerial. To cut a long story short, digital television has far great capabilities than analogue (not digital) television. Most aerials will do, roughly speaking if you can get Channel 5, even if it's poor, your aerial is good enough for Freeview. You need to also check that you’re in coverage for Freeview. You can do this via www.freeview.co.uk Once you know you’re in good coverage, and your aerial is ok you need to buy a Freeview box. This could come in the form of a set top box, or inbuilt into your TV. Actual...

shellb256 12.06.2003 · Read review
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