E4 Now on freeview (boxes @ £35)

cheghead

Errr https://www.currys.co.uk

onedah

Hi,

I recently bought a free view box (ALBA) I recieve Men & Motors but can not find the E4 channel. any ideas?

ka7e

Cheapest I've found is this £37.99, at Amazon with free P&P if you use the Super Saver Delivery.

JimArnold

onedah wrote:

Hi,

I recently bought a free view box (ALBA) I recieve Men & Motors but can not find the E4 channel. any ideas?

If you can't find it you have a problem but more likely your box can find it but not show it as its encrypted

Patience - try again at the weekend when it should be unencrypted - hopefully forever!

ManAtHome

E4 is on channel 14 - currently just showing a blank screen.

KINGAKNAA

heard its gonna be available on 27th when big brother starts.... :wall:

Otago

To give you a rough idea I paid around £45 to get my aerial upgraded. I was missing half of the channels otherwise and its definitely worth it, especially now E4 is on the way for free! :beer:

telly-addict

BigAde wrote:

I've not known one case where a new aerial has been required, I've even successfully used a set-top aerial. In other words, the postcode checker on the freeview website needs to be taken with a fairly hefty pinch of salt.

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According to the Freeview website, they don't reach our postcode, although it does cover an area 3 miles away. Does anyone know how accurate it is? Not sure if it is a similar thing, but we can't get Channel 5 without Sky here - are we just in a poor reception area? Medway towns, Kent, hardly out in the sticks!

Arfa_2

telly-addict wrote:

According to the Freeview website, they don't reach our postcode, although it does cover an area 3 miles away.

Try borrowing a Freeview box or a digital radio off somebody and see what sort of reception you get. As I understand it, the Freeview website does err on the side of caution so you may be OK.

telly-addict

Thanks Arfa. Is there anything that would make a Freeview box 'unreturnable' to the store if it didn't work? If we bought it and just plugged it in to see if we got a reception, would there be anything else that needed to be done? Then if we got no reception we could take it back to the store?

I didn't know that about digital radio - so if I could check to see if we can receive that (BBC website?), it could help?