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Why haven't you got Freeview yet?
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Chatting to some people on MSN it's surprising how many of you don't have a freeview box on any TV in the house .. for a one off £20 to £30 or so these days you can pickup a box and get loads more channels - how what's stopping some of you?
I'm always a day ahead of everyone in Hollyoaks cos I'm watching it on E4 and everyone else only has Ch4 ... and already been moaned at for telling a certain someone what happened one day early.
I'm always a day ahead of everyone in Hollyoaks cos I'm watching it on E4 and everyone else only has Ch4 ... and already been moaned at for telling a certain someone what happened one day early.
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At my uni house, we don't have Freeview (although we have 2 boxes!) because the house aerial is fucked and we can only get BBC1 and ITV.
And i live in London
We get E4 etc. with digital which is far superior anyway,
Which part of London?
I've found the thing that stops people I know getting a strong enough signal isn't the Areil on their roof but the crap wiring in their houses.
We went to my aunt's house and totally replaced her old antenna for a brand new modern one and the signal wasn't much better at all - then we replaced the coax with ct100 cable (the kind that use to connect a sky digital box to the dish) and the signal became about 8 times stronger.
The good cable has a silver foil inside which helps shield it from stray interference and also you loose less signal over a given length.
http://www.megalithia.com/elect/cable/index.html
I'm not impressed with it tbh. I think I'm spoilt by having Sky downstairs. All the channels I do have on freeview, seem to only work during the day and turn to those awful quiz programmes late at night.
It is good to have E4 in my bedroom though - I can watch Skins without my dad tutting all the way through it :hyper:
At my parents house, you cannot get a freeview / digital signal at all.
I don't need any channels on my TV, thank you very much :P
I had it in uni on an indoor aerial. It was surprisingly okay, but it fucked up whenever a bus went past, and you had to remember where to point the aerial for each channel.
You can get Freeview of PC's - plugs into your USB 2 socket and lets you watch TV on your Desktop / Laptop - even lets you use your PC to record the TV shows.
Some even come with a little remote control .. like below:
Tsk, the youth of today
My freeview box is in the living room of my shared flat as I don't have an external aerial for my room... my signal is so shit I can't even have a video recorder connected
You have 3 Sky Boxes?
I'm not sure i even have an outdoor aerial. I have to have one of those on-top-of-the-telly jobbies and even that gives a crap signal on the usual channels. I live in emergency housing (hopefully not for very long) but when i start renting my own flat i'll make sure i have an aerial on my roof as well as proper wiring!
North London, btw!
We have a sky+ box downstairs and in my bedroom, while my in my brothers room he randomly has cable because the ntl bloke rang us up one day and said because we have the internet and phone it would be an extra pound a month for the cable, so why not!