USB Free-View Receiver stick advice wanted

a-p_2 · 28 April 2007 at 9:57PM

hello all,

i am considering buying a USB Free-View Receiver stick - http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=26966140763&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=101969
, but before purchasing are seeking advice/reccomendations.
so, if anyone has experience of such things could you let me know your thoughts.
thanks

U've_been_framed · 29 April 2007 at 6:34AM

There are over 30 customer reviews on the ebuyer website. What do they say?

a-p_2 · 29 April 2007 at 1:23PM

u've been framed,
i know there are reviews on the ebuyer site, i was seeking opinions that could be considered a little more independant.

cookie_monster_8 · 29 April 2007 at 4:27PM

I have a free link one, works fine now but setting it up was a nightmare. The aerial i got with it wouldnt pick up anything, then the normal tv aerial picked up a good few. i then tryd an old aerial i have that really is a wire circle with no fancy boosters and works great. then tried with roof aerial and turns out the small circle aerial works better lol!!

what im trying to say is that it really is hit or miss. i bought mine for £30 from pc world but i htink its only 20 on ebuyer

Jon_01 · 29 April 2007 at 5:35PM

My daughter got one like that (a freecom one) from ebuyer. We tired for 2 days to get it working, not a hope. The supplied aerial didn't pick anything up and even pluging it in to mail house lead (on it's own) give a really poor picture, even though the freeview box on the TV works fine...

BizzyB · 1 May 2007 at 5:25AM

waste of money imo. Spent ages trying to get the set-up working for mine, crappy supplied aerial came with pack but no luck with that then ended up re-routing an aerial lead from the main house input socket to get a picture - which sort of defeats the purpose of being able to view anywhere.

Eddington · 1 May 2007 at 8:23AM

I have a freecom one, bought from ebuyer.... works great for me

sco0ter · 1 May 2007 at 10:09AM

Got a freecom one from PCworld and it is brilliant. Now they have released better (BDA) drivers. It also works in VISTA just by plugging it in no need for drivers at all. Picture quality is great and recording function works perfect and all on my little 1.5GHz laptop..

daleyd · 1 May 2007 at 10:18AM

Got one from ebuyer about a year ago - worked fine but as said the aerial supplied is not great.

The only problem I have is that when I bought it I thought I would use it loads, but in reality haven't used it that much at all - I would say if you're sure youre going to use it go for it (But maybe consider also getting a better aerial).

HTH

USB Free-View Receiver stick advice wanted

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