Does Freeview Box work in Europe?

frugal_rock

Evening all

We have a Phillips made UK Freeview box.

We have a house in Spain and were wondering if it is worth taking the Freeview box over at Xmas.

Will it pick up any digital channels in Spain, or are the signals completley different?

Cheers in advance.

Poppycat

Here you go

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=490325

Browntoa

you need a spanish box

frugal_rock

Poppycat wrote: »

Here you go

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=490325

nice one, thanks.

the link is from 2006 and I know some of the channels hae got new names, but hopefully the technology hasnt changed..!

Poppycat

Its seems you may get freesat

http://www.freeviewinspain.com/

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=575925

before_hollywood

frugal_rock wrote: »

nice one, thanks.

the link is from 2006 and I know some of the channels hae got new names, but hopefully the technology hasnt changed..!

nope, not changed one bit, same frequencies and setup

Inactive

Browntoa wrote: »

you need a spanish box

Not true, I took an English Freeview Receiver to Spain and it worked just fine.

However, Spanish TDT Receivers are far more flexible than UK Freeview one's and are only around 20/25 Euro's, so I wouldn't bother taking one.

Spanish TDT is basically fairly poor, compared with our Freeview, fewer channels etc.

frugal_rock

Thanks again.

We already get TDT through the inbuilt Freeview on the TV we shipped over, but will be good to have in another room.

jammin_2

Poppycat wrote: »

Its seems you may get freesat

You'll definitely get Freesat in Spain, with a big enough dish.