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Thinking of switching to freeview

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milanoli
milanoli Posts: 3 Newbie
in Techie Stuff
Today, with great pleasure, I cancelled my Sky subscription. Escalating costs and terrible programmes have encouraged my to go free view. To this end I am thinking of purchasing the following set top box/recorder. Has anyone any experience of this or other cheap models?

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Set-Top-Box-Shop_W0QQssPageNameZviQ3asibQ3astoreviewQQtZkm

Thanks,

Miles
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  • Midas
    Midas Posts: 597 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    Can't you just continue to watch the free channels through your sky dish?


    :)
    Midas.
  • Northtim
    Northtim Posts: 180 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    Just hang onto your sky card and you have most of Freeview (except E4). Sky don't ask for the card back and there are a lot of channels that still work.
  • Happy_saver_4
    Happy_saver_4 Posts: 682 Forumite
    Am I missing the point here?

    I recently bought a Freeview digi box from Tesco at under £40. Why spend nearly £100; what does it do?

    Mine receives loads of channels and if connected through a recording device I assume it will record what you want?

    It's great value and I'm happy with it it's a Bush.
    You don't stop laughing because you grow old, You grow old because you stop laughing
    " Large print giveth - small print taketh away. "
  • Darksun
    Darksun Posts: 1,931 Forumite
    Happy Saver, it's also a Harddisk Recorder, you can record programmes onto it, and use timeshifting as with TiVo and Sky+
  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I recently bought a Humax 8000T/80G PVR that I use like a low cost alternative to Sky +, you can only record freeview channels, but thats fine by me. If this link works : http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/freeviewreceivers.html

    You can see most of whats out there. BTW I think that the Pace PVR has been discontinued, might be wrong though.

    Note that you will get E4 on freeview but not on Freesat from Sky.
    That gum you like is coming back in style.
  • alanrowell
    alanrowell Posts: 5,386 Forumite
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    Pace Pumas/Twins have a small hard drive so you can only record 10 hours of programs and the software is a bit flaky. You can, for a price, easily fit a larger hard drive though but that ruins the warrenty

    It's main advantage is that it has 2 freeview tuners so you can record one freeview channel & watch another at the same time.

    If I was you I'd have a read of http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/forumdisplay.php?f=90 before buying
  • Happy_saver_4
    Happy_saver_4 Posts: 682 Forumite
    Darksun wrote:
    Happy Saver, it's also a Harddisk Recorder, you can record programmes onto it, and use timeshifting as with TiVo and Sky+

    All is clear now. All very upmarket and a bit too techie for me ! Perhaps that's why it's on the Techie forum ;)
    You don't stop laughing because you grow old, You grow old because you stop laughing
    " Large print giveth - small print taketh away. "
  • cheghead
    cheghead Posts: 849 Forumite
    milanoli wrote:
    Today, with great pleasure, I cancelled my Sky subscription. Escalating costs and terrible programmes have encouraged my to go free view. To this end I am thinking of purchasing the following set top box/recorder. Has anyone any experience of this or other cheap models?

    http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Set-Top-Box-Shop_W0QQssPageNameZviQ3asibQ3astoreviewQQtZkm

    Thanks,

    Miles

    Well Done!
    Sell your sky digibox in the local small ads and put that towards Freeview box. Haven't missed sky since cancelling several months ago.
  • Hunnymonster
    Hunnymonster Posts: 751 Forumite
    It's hardly moneysaving though is it ? For £0.00 and no effort you can continue to watch digital TV, with superior interactive on the Sky box that is already installed with the cancelled viewing card.
    There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't

    In many cases it helps if you say where you are - someone with local knowledge might be able to give local specifics rather than general advice
  • snowwhite_2
    snowwhite_2 Posts: 53 Forumite
    Buy freeview from asda for around £32.00

    Try it out for a while.

    I have freeview and I just plugged it on and it works great, I then bought it for my parents who live only a few miles away, and it did not work without them getting a new ariel.

    At least if you buy it from asda you have not lost anything, if you can not get it to work in your area you can get a refund at asda.
    :beer: Mistakes dont matter, as long as you learn from them.
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