Freeview box with Setanta £29

dc

Tesco are selling the Sagem Freeview box with TUTV card slot and Setanta card. Has 1 months free sub to Setanta. This will be the cheapest "future-proof" box as when analogue TV ends, lots more pay per view channels will hop on board.
Price is down from £49 to £29 till 22nd Jan 2008.


"The Sagem ITD68 Digital Freeview Receiver comes with a viewing card which provides access to Setanta Sports. Setanta Sports offers premium sport on a digital receiver giving you access to 46 exclusive live Barclay Premiership League Matches, US PGA Tour Golf as well as top European games and more.

This Sagem digital receiver comes complete with free initial connection and first month’s viewing, a subscription charge applies thereafter. It provides access for up to 40 Freeview channels. Now & Next Electronic Programme Guide enables you to plan your TV viewing. Further features of the Sagem ITD68 include an RF loop, Auto set up, 1 SCART socket as well as a remote control"

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-7833.aspx

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dc wrote: »

. This will be the cheapest "future-proof" box as when analogue TV ends, lots more pay per view channels will hop on board.

Which is due in 2012, five years away.;)

dc

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Which is due in 2012, five years away.;)

Only for some, they keep putting it off ( chickening out really, as should have all been completed in 2006) but Whitehaven though small got switched off this Autumn and the switchoffs will go roughly anticlockwise round the country with Border region next year ( was going to be this year), then Granada etc ending up in Tyne Tees in 2012.;)

sco0ter

That and HD freeview will be due around then as well so it will need replacing with a HD freeview box

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dc wrote: »

Only for some, they keep putting it off ( chickening out really, as should have all been completed in 2006) but Whitehaven though small got switched off this Autumn and the switchoffs will go roughly anticlockwise round the country with Border region next year ( was going to be this year), then Granada etc ending up in Tyne Tees in 2012.;)

But they cannot free up any bandwidth until all area's are switched over, and then most of it will be auctioned off by the government.

I don't think your " future proofing " claim will hold water by then.

dc

Nothing is totally futureproof hence the OP has quotation marks. perhaps most "futureproof" would have been better wording.


So you think the Broadcast companies are going to leave millions of pounds worth of high power transmitters that power BBC 1, BBC2 ITV CH4 and 5, to "rust" away for 4 or 5 years whilst continuing to run the very low power Freeview in the corner on "batteries" ? I think re-engineering will be in progress from the start, if not only to improve the current low level Freeview transmission power and with extra channels. A frequency was never left cold (off) or illegal transmissions moved in.

piggeh

This is also available at richer sounds, and you can use the voucher (bottom left) to get some free sennheiser headphones

piggeh

should really supply a link lol

http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=SAGE-ITD68-SETANTA

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piggeh wrote: »

should really supply a link lol

http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=SAGE-ITD68-SETANTA

But it's literally twice the price

paul.carter

Saw it in two stores for £24.50 yesterday.

musicboy

That box has been in HMV stores for a few months now at that price. I should know, I reduced 'em in ours .. hehe .... participating stores while stocks last blah blah blah