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All your questions answered in one place
All the questions on this forum can be answered in the TV Viewers’ Guide, £6.50. Google it. Plasma or LCD and why? Screen size versus viewing distance? What channels are available and where? Do I need a new aerial or not and why? What type? There is no such thing as a Digital aerial. Freeview, FreeSat, FreeviewfromSky,…
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Sky HD Help!!
Hey Guys, I was wandering if someone can help me. My friend is moving back to America as he came here to work in the UK, but due to the recession he lost his job! He sold me his Sky HD Box for £10... bargain if you ask me!! However... I am currently with Sky in the place I live and I only have the basic Sky box... If I…
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Problems with switchover in flats
Hi I'm having some troubles with my housing association with regards to the switchover. I live in Devon and am due to switchover in a month. I live in a block of flats and get virtually no reception from the aerial point in the wall in my flat. I currently use an internal aerial plugged into my tv, the reception is still…
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Freeview HD - not until 2010 ?
Hi i was reading the BBC HD webpage today and it said BBC HD wont be available on Freeview until 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbchd/what_is_hd.shtml I've read (cant find the link now) elsewhere that Freeview HD will be available by mid-2009 ? Anyone else got any more info on this ? :confused:
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Sky+ and Freesat issues
Hi Wondered if you could help. I have read quite a bit of info from this forum, but still in the dark to a certain extent. I'm thinking of dumping my Sky+. I'm out of contract and no longer want to pay £45 a month. I also have Sky Broadband base which is costing £5 a month. The questions I have are: a) If I cancel Sky+, am…
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Sky charging for "Free installation"
I would appreciate any help with this, Sky have billed me for installation yet I was offered it for free on the phone. I moved house and phoned Sky to ask to cancel their services as they wanted £60 to install it it my new house, to stop me from cancelling they said they would wave the £60 and we would have it installed…
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What's the best value Freeview PVR?
Fairly open question this so all answers welcome... What's the best value Freeview PVR? And where's best to get one? Note: best value, not necessarily cheapest. Thanks in advance!
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FAULT Sky digital
I dont really watch much TV but my OH decided she wanted me to take the freeview box out and put the sky digi receiver in. It hasnt been in use for maybe a year or so and has a skycard but no subscription so freeview only. Anyway,connected up,checked setup menu, no sig, no lock ,no transport stream. Ladder up,unscrewed…
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virgin media SMT2100C box, how old?
I had Virgin media installed last wednesday and they installed a Samsung SMT2110C, this died by Saturday, no power to it at all, so they sent an engineer out on bank holiday monday, and he installled a larger replacement box, an SMT2100C, I was a bit surprised that the install menu all came up with NTL, but he assured me…
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Can I record videos from a freeview box
Hello I hope someone can help, I'm trying to get my 92 year Dad sorted for digital. He's now got a tv with freeview in but he still wants to record on his old video, am I right in thinking that we can get a seperate freeview box to connect directly to his video and then he can record from that and watch a different…
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freeview hard drive
looking to buy a freeview hard drive and wondered if anyone could recommend one please, looking for a cheapish model as on a budget. my tv already has inbulit frreview but would like to record on to a hard drive instead of tapes etc. how would i connect it to the tv as i want to connect the dvd player and harddrive freview…
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Problem with my freeview
I have had my TV (I cant remember the make at the moment but will check later) with inbuilt freeview for about 6 months. (brought from costco) all was fine until about a week ago I turned it on to find a lot of the channels were missing. I did an auto scan and it picked up all the missing channels. The next time I turned…
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Do I need a TV licence?
Thankfully the region I live in will be the last to have digital switchover. I cannot afford to pay for Sky or equivalent, in fact at present I couldn't even afford to buy a freeview box - I'm spending more than I earn (but working on it). I believe the freeview signal here is rubbish anyway. So I'm thinking about not…
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Help - trouble in the sticks!
I Live in the country (Suffolk) and have done for 30 years but have finally come to a grinding halt when it comes to joining the 21st Century. I have max 1.5mb broadband and freeview but really want to get a faster broadband and some kind of freesat service, to get the HD tv and some of the other channels available, or Sky…
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How do I train a pensioner?
Gran is 101 and lives alone...How on earth do we teach her to use the Freeview? She can't use the CD player she got 10 years ago yet. I see her loosing her only enjoyment of watching her soaps :confused: Any older men willing to stay and teach her? :rotfl::rotfl:
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Sky dumped...Freesat?
If i get rid of Sky does my box and/or viewing card revert to being able to get Freesat channels, or do I need to buy a Freesat viewing card?
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TV is dead. Long live TV!
I thought you might be interested in my TV experiences, as they might be a little unconventional but I find people are quite surprised. It's also in response to a lot of the comments I've read on here in a way - especially the person wondering how to get TV as 'good as it was in the 70s'! I'd argue it was bl00dy awful in…
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is it possible to hook up a hard-drive recorder to sky freeview?
i really don't want to pay for sky - i wouldn't get the value from it as i only watch the usual channels anyway (c4, itv etc). however, i'd really like a hard-drive recorder but as i said don't want to have to pay a regular fee for sky+. is it really impossible to connect my skydish-skybox to a hard-drive recorder that…
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Virgin HD?
Anyone got an idea when Virgin will be putting out some useful HD? They're gonna start losing customers if they don't do something this year!
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European digital channels on Freesat?
Do either of the Freeview satellite offerings include the ability to watch free digital European channels, eg German sports and general French and Spanish programmes. If yes, which ones? If not, is there a way to get these without subscription? We live in East Anglia and have Freeview via the aerial. TIA
