Digital Freeview boxes for under £22

Martyn321

Do any of these other Digital tv providers allow you to get sky one, or is this ONLY available via a sky subscription???

BexTech

Sky One is available on NTL : Telewest.

Same as NTL : Telewest's channels (Living, Bravo etc) are available on satellite.

For ex-Telewest areas : http://www.telewest.co.uk/html/sorter/channels_full.html

For ex-NTL areas: http://home.ntl.com/html/sorter/channels_full.html

Sky One is available from the Free package up on ex-Telewest and from select package and up on ex-NTL.

penpusher_2

I purchased the DIGIHOME DVB915 from Amazon a few days ago.
To my mind it is worth double the £21.98 price.
Very very easy setup, minutes literally once you have connected your scart cables etc.

spook

Anyone had any experience with any of these boxes over the long term?

Personally I had one of the Asda "Durabrand" boxes - think it's about £24 now. Crashed every week or so, and eventually died completely, only 3 weeks before warranty ran out.

Fortunately Asda were quite happy to exchange it - I got the impression they exchange an awful lot of them...

Lugh_Chronain

Not had a reply I’m afraid. I will try again hopefully with some luck this time. Sorry

Lugh_Chronain

WOW!! Don’t think I’ve seen so many users online as this 3599 in total.

I got a reply at last

I was hoping to post the thread the person I contacted would send me but unfortunately he can’t find it. I’ve ask him to send me his username so I can try to look up his past posts. Don’t get your hopes up to much though because the administrator has disabled the list of members. I will email them if needs be and hopefully they might help me out with any luck.

Anyway, what he did was:

1st of all have a look at the Special Note for Telewest/NTL users

He did the NTL thing saying he was leaving and going to Carphone Warehouses talk talk (need to find out how much this is now). Was paying £40 and also charged for calls made on top. I guess that's for the month.

What he got was

Upgrade to 2Meg (p.s. now 4Meg) broadband (reduced from £25 to £12.50).
Base TV digital package (reduced to £5.50)

Phone line rental (£10.50 standard charge)

TalkUnlimited 24 package (worth £15 but got it free!!!! Free calls forever 24hrs a day to landlines)

NO CONTRACT as he has been with them for years.

He tells me prices may have varied a bit since then.

Hope this helps. I will post is the thread here for you regardless.

Lugh_Chronain

These are not threads he posted on here; he says he never post anything anywhere. He just saw what others were doing and asked for more. Not sure what the latter means, maybe he means from NTL.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=1136799#post1136799

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=2038521

Good luck

Lugh_Chronain

Oops! Posted twice by accident Sorry, Pls delete

jstallan

See my post here
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=4042312&posted=1#post4042312

Not under £22 , but £25 and very happy

marzouk

glyn_s wrote:

does anyone know of a cheap freeview box that shows the channels on a display on the front rather than on-screen? i want to plug one into a stereo so i can get digital radio stations on it - i hope to use a splitter from my existing freeview aerial - but i need a display on the front to show the channel numbers or names otherwise i won't know what channel it's on - anyone know of one please?

I bought a Goodmans freeview with 80gb HDD from ASDA. 2 channel(so you can record one programme and watch another) excellent quality recording. It has a front display. I use it for the radio through my stereo system.
You can also watch one recording whilst recording another. Can't remember model no but got in ASDA Swindon.:T