Daily Mail "free" freeview box offer

vyle

Sooler wrote: »

same for any Freeview box

Set top box:

• As of August 2009, there are no Freeview set-top boxes capable of getting Freeview HD on the market.

http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/freeviewhd.html#

The only thing I know of that MAY be able to receive freeview HD when it comes out is the new philips 9 series TV as it has an MP4 decoder in it and is used to pick up the german/other european equivalents of freeview HD.

Besides, most HD tvs have freeview decoders in anyway, so it would only be worth getting the box to record and if you're doing that then HD would be irrelevant anyway as there would be no way to record to a DVD or VCR in HD.

mrcol1000

To be fair a lot of Daily Mail readers are elderly and probably don't realise they can get freeview boxes so cheap. Also all newspapers are one sided and bigoted its just wether you agree with their views or not.

To be honest if people want to buy Daily Mail and collect 40 tokens for something they can get dead cheap then let them. Its their choice. People taking a smug moral high ground on the subject just makes them look embrassing and small minded.

tomwakefield

Surely it is free (bar P&P) if you buy the paper daily anyway

roddydogs

Whoopie the DM discovers "Freeview" just when its going to be obsolete

danmanchester

roddydogs wrote: »

Whoopie the DM discovers "Freeview" just when its going to be obsolete

erm ??? ??? I think you're confusing Freeview digital with analogue transmissions.

woody01

theduke88 wrote: »

collect 60 tokens until November and pay the postage (doesn't say how much that might be!)

or 10 tokens and £17.99 (again the going rate for a box)

or pay £24.99 without tokens!

what gets me really annoyed is that come 2012 and probably before that there will be companies that will give away freeview boxes for nothing just to publicise the digital switch.

and don't forget that this will be effectively useless to anyone who has an hd ready tv as it will never be able to carry and hd streams.

this is the sort of offer that screams "bad deal run away" yet it is deemed appropriate for a middle class newspaper?

and to top it off the waiting time for delivery of the box is 56 days!

in 56 days i could...............

Thanks for the laugh.
'Middle Class' newspaper?
This comic is the lowest of the low.

It's designed for people that 'think' they are middle class'.

oldone_2

I just love these posts from tree hugging lefties whinging about the Daily Mail. It must be doing something right to get the Thatcher hating socialists hot under the collar. Sales are holding up well, which in a free market economy is a good indication of its success .
Here is a sobering thought. If Local authorities,the BBC and govenment were not compelled to advertise jobs in the Guardian and nowhere else, that newspaper, the mouthpiece of the left, would fold overnight.

Halloway

oldone wrote: »

I just love these posts from tree hugging lefties whinging about the Daily Mail. It must be doing something right to get the Thatcher hating socialists hot under the collar. Sales are holding up well, which in a free market economy is a good indication of its success .
Here is a sobering thought. If Local authorities,the BBC and govenment were not compelled to advertise jobs in the Guardian and nowhere else, that newspaper, the mouthpiece of the left, would fold overnight.

Yes, I can see that the Daily Mail would appeal to someone like you.

mrcol1000

Halloway wrote: »

Yes, I can see that the Daily Mail would appeal to someone like you.

Obviously a BBC employee who reads the Guardian.

dacouch

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