Freeview

pheonixp

Forced by circumstances to cut back drastically, I cancelled sky (family pack),
sick of watching repeats anyway. Was informed that I would be left with freeview, great, I saved £30(argos) by not having to buy a new box.

Been looking into 3000+ channel recievers, very expensive.
Checked out Maplin, they do a satellite kit for £99.99, recieves 4000 european freeview channels. Kit incudes reciever and dish. Also they do a motor for positioning the dish for £59.99.
Then I noticed their B grade stock (returns with 12 mth guarantee) Kit £69.99 and dish £39.99. With their £10 off for £100 spend and Free postage for spending over £30 = £60 saving equivelant to a free motor.
You also need a fixing kit £24.99, not seen one B grade yet

Because B grades are returns, you have to keep an eye out for them.

Worth checking out for other technology as well.

alanrowell

Freeview is a specific term referring to terrestial UK free-to-air channels, most of these satellite receivers will only receive free-to-air (ie unencrypted) channels and will not receive the UK Freeview channels.

If you go to the "get it while you can" branch there's a 60 quid kit including receiver, 2 dual LNB & dish from one of the low cost supermarkets

busymum1

we bought Freeview for our bedroom but we got only portable aerial i asked few ppl and they said we have to have roof aerial to receive freeview in our bedroom as there is no signal with the portable. Can you plz let me know is there any other way to get freeview in bedroom without having to put roof aerial as its gotne cost me £65 or £99+vat for aerial and i already got the freeview box. Many thanks in advance.

SPembo

It depends how far you are away from the transmitter’s tbh. A loft arial if your in decent range is usually the cheapest method as you can do it easily yourself.

helen21_2

busymum1 wrote:

we bought Freeview for our bedroom but we got only portable aerial i asked few ppl and they said we have to have roof aerial to receive freeview in our bedroom as there is no signal with the portable. Can you plz let me know is there any other way to get freeview in bedroom without having to put roof aerial as its gotne cost me £65 or £99+vat for aerial and i already got the freeview box. Many thanks in advance.

Hi busymum1

My daughters freeview box in her bedroom is on an aerial in the attic and it works perfectly!!

Poppycat

You might be interested to know that both ITV and BBC and launching early next year a free satellite service, details are to follow.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4221722.stm

ivanwilson

Poppycat wrote:

You might be interested to know that both ITV and BBC and launching early next year a free satellite service, details are to follow.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4221722.stm

Interesting - I wonder if this service will need a different receiver or will the Sky digibox work?

Poppycat

I did a post in Tech forum with some links

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=89081

Looks like you need to buy the dish and receiver. It would be nice if you could still use the sky dish and get a new box. Also HDTV is going to take off soon so satellite is the ideal medium for broadcasting for this.

mervyncp

Where is the cheapest place to buy a Freeview box. The cheapest I've seen is £39.99 at Comet and Currys.

Also what do you get for the extra money if you buy a more expensive one

pheonixp

Argos £30 but no scart lead , Asda £33 with a scart

Saint_Chris

Poundland have scarts for...................a pound