The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on September 10, 2012, 08:14:15 pm
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Does anyone else finds that the freeview reception is getting much worse by the day? I wonder if they want to put us all off to watch everything on-line....if we are lucky we now get itv and channel 4 programs but later in the night they all diappear (breaking up first) gradually. Very annoying :rant: :&>
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I get a lot of 'no signal' on my big new TV with Freeview built in, but my old one with a separate box never breaks up at all says she touching her oak desk :fc:
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mines crap too. retuning can help, but i think im gonna have to bite the bullet and fit a proper aerial. not that its a major loss now star trek isnt on. ::)
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just retuned and now only have 800 - 804 left , channel 4 and children ::) :&>
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hey dont blame me!!! :innocent: :D :D :D
dvd?? ;)
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and there was me thinking it was just my freeview box that was crap both boxes were replaced with new ones and they have worked alright for a few months now it is intermittent that stv and up fragment be interesting if there is any techice ones out there :farmer:
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interesting that the website says there is nothing wrong with the transmitters ::)
DITW, you're off the hook , I retuned before you said so :roflanim:
dvd (thanks , lovefilm), although it's French with subtitles and a bit much, after that i-player, I suppose or early bed with a book :&>
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We have Freesat since Sky put their prices up once too often. It's enough for us, just lose the signal a bit if the weather gets too bad, but on the whole it's fine, I'd recommend it,
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;D Just chuck the TV out of the window!!! We haven't had one for nearly 6 years now, also too slow broadband to watch anything on Iplayer - but don't miss it at all. We go to the library at least twice a month, I do my fibre stuff :knit: and anyway on a recent holiday when we had a TV in the B&B - there was only cr@p on... and if we really want to watch a film a DVD on the computer is great - no adverts either!
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Freesat is better than Freeview, get the slightly bigger dish to avoid problems with break up in bad weather.
Sky put a cheapie in as there standard installation.
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I've been nearly two years without TV as well as don't miss it. If I want to watch anything (which is rarely more than Corrie and Casualty) I use iplayer and ITV player. Sounds like I'm not missing much now we're all digital.
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Ours is hopeless, too. We only get about 6 channels including BBC and ITV, and on nights like tonight, with high wind and heavy rain, you can forget seeing anything. Most people round here are in the same boat with their free view reception.
What was the point of us all upgrading tellys and buyingboxes!!
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We are not ready to ditch the tele , if I was living on my own I might be...
Do you need a dish for freesat or does a receiver do it? We couldn't get sky (and I wouldn't pay Murdoch a penny if I had to ;) ) because of the hill so freesat wouldn't work either I suppose... :&>
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mine can be rubbish too..especially the music channels which i like to blast out while doing my housework when i on my own ...haha..get it sorted freeview.!... :rant:
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Next time any of you go to europe on holls , just buy the big dish and box and tv , most of the country is within the eurosat footprint , for free......all you have to do is learn a few languages. :thumbsup:
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I've been nearly two years without TV as well as don't miss it. If I want to watch anything (which is rarely more than Corrie and Casualty) I use iplayer and ITV player. Sounds like I'm not missing much now we're all digital.
Correct me if i am wrong, no telly no licence?
Iplayer- played through the computer :dunce: , who has a licence for it
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I've been nearly two years without TV as well as don't miss it. If I want to watch anything (which is rarely more than Corrie and Casualty) I use iplayer and ITV player. Sounds like I'm not missing much now we're all digital.
Correct me if i am wrong, no telly no licence?
Iplayer- played through the computer :dunce: , who has a licence for it
Only need one if you are watching programmes LIVE. (as per one of the regular letters I get telling me I am breaking the law.... ;D ..) I-player is (usually?) only available after the normal screening time I think?
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If you are having trouble with Freeview it may be to do with the digital switchover which takes place here in the tyne-tees region starting today so all boxes/tv's need to be retuned we keep getting messages to remind us when we switch on every night. If your region has already switched it may becoz of that and the digi people may be worth a call.
We have freesat on our main telly and have to say its excellent, the odd scramble when its blowing a gale but its just thro a regular sky dish on side of house.
HTH or not as the case maybe!
mandy :pig:
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We switched over quite some time back and, although digi signal does break up in bad weather, mostly it has been OK.
The only point it was bad was when were on the cusp of the switch-over so, until the official date, we stayed on analogue.
Considering where we are I have been quite impressed. We don't get a vary number of channels but it is nice to have a little extra for those rare Nights of TV.
Rgds
Sskye
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We have Free Sat too. Last night a storm woke us at 04:00. Unfortunateley Free Sat does not work in heavy rain so we had to sit and watch the lightening. probablet just as entertaining at the TV shows on Free Sat.
;D
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I've been nearly two years without TV as well as don't miss it. If I want to watch anything (which is rarely more than Corrie and Casualty) I use iplayer and ITV player. Sounds like I'm not missing much now we're all digital.
Correct me if i am wrong, no telly no licence?
Iplayer- played through the computer :dunce: , who has a licence for it
Only need one if you are watching programmes LIVE. (as per one of the regular letters I get telling me I am breaking the law.... ;D ..) I-player is (usually?) only available after the normal screening time I think?
I only ever watch after it has been screened on TV so I am safe.
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just reviving this thread ;)
since the last required re-tune in September we keep losing all itv and C4s . This means we have to retune each time we switch it on, very exasperating! Anyone experience this as well or is the box a goner??? :&>
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I've only retuned once and mine is fine on both TVs - one is a box, the other built in.
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just reviving this thread ;)
since the last required re-tune in September we keep losing all itv and C4s . This means we have to retune each time we switch it on, very exasperating! Anyone experience this as well or is the box a goner??? :&>
We lost all our bbc channels when our region went digital last month, rang the helpline and they said ring the tv manufacturer. The tv was one of the first digital ones purchased in 2004 a Sanyo, rang them and they said oh yeah it won't work with the new digital system you'll have to put a freeview box on it, so we have and it now works! Technology has obviuosly progressed.
Mandy :pig:
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I received a message on screen yesterday to retune again after today. Don't know why.