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14-03-07, 07:40 PM
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Freeview box help
Has anyone got a reliable Freeview box that they can recommend? I'm tired of buying rubbish boxes that fail for one reason or another - my latest, a Philips, keeps freezing and coming on at strange hours on channels of its own choosing.
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14-03-07, 07:46 PM
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Re: Freeview box help
Welcome to freeview. that is why it is free, because nobody would ever pay for such a poor, unreliable service. They need to treble the signal strength. How the goverment can ever contemplate switching off the analogue signal with no usable alternative except to pay Mr Murdoch a fortune......Oh damm now I understand why they want to turn it off.
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14-03-07, 07:53 PM
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Re: Freeview box help
the ntl row seems to be taking forever aswell. It appears i'm now paying for freeview!
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14-03-07, 07:59 PM
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Re: Freeview box help
Could try the Sainsburys cheapy c£20.... (I)mogen?... small thing & works on lowish signal..Folks one hasn't broken yet. Had a Goodmans one that was Sh*te.
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14-03-07, 09:48 PM
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Re: Freeview box help
We have a Ferguson one that was free with our TV from Currys. It has a very good menu system, and our signal seems to be fine. It does get a bit pixelated during storms, but it is the only way to watch Channel 5 in Brighton!
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14-03-07, 10:28 PM
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Re: Freeview box help
i got a decent one PACE model and that was still p@@ so i got SKY.
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14-03-07, 10:56 PM
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Re: Freeview box help
£20 cheap Sagem bought bout a year and a half ago bought at Richer Sounds (Boy did i have an argument there, wanting my name and address for the 'Warranty', happy to give it as long as they specificaly gave me in writing a solem blood oath not to pass my details to the BBC...LOL - in the end they just accepted a 20 quid note and told me to leave...LOL) no probs with it ever.
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14-03-07, 11:02 PM
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Re: Freeview box help
Don't you pay your licence fee then? Sellers get fined heavily for not getting details, it's not their fault.
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15-03-07, 09:33 AM
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Re: Freeview box help
I've got 2 freeview boxes - a Thomson T1000 (I think that's the model - it's certainly something-1000) which has proven to be very solid.
I also have a PVR - a Topfield, which tho expensive, is outstanding. You can write software got it, replacing features you don't like, or indeed, download software other people have written, much of it very high quality. I'd recommend both. |
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15-03-07, 09:37 AM
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