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Post by everso on Oct 11, 2010 23:00:48 GMT
I've just stomped upstairs in disgust at our effing television. Tonight all we can get is ONE fecking channel - BBC1. The signal is non-existent on all other channels. If we try analogue we can only get BBC1, 2 and ITV1. Channels four and five are too fuzzy to watch and the other three are like watching it through a snow storm.  I feel like I want to slap someone hard. Not Mr. E. though - he just made me a cuppa tea.  I positively refuse to get Sky. |
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Post by rjpageuk on Oct 11, 2010 23:16:37 GMT
Get freesat?
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Post by everso on Oct 11, 2010 23:49:34 GMT
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Post by Patrick on Oct 12, 2010 7:53:20 GMT
Hopefully - with the High Pressure area and the sunny weather it must be down to atmospherics. Your box might also be giving up the ghost too! Our first Freeview box lasted just under two years. Thank Goodness for Argos's three year guarrantee! The next one lasted around four. It still works, it's just bloody temperamental and kept resetting itself every day. The DVR/Freeview we have now is the best so far (touch wood) and a snip at about £20 - Over half the price it would have been in the shops (Thanks ebay). When this dies though - as I'm sure it will - we will go to Freesat as well. Though I might have to paint the name on the Satellite dish so people know we haven't got Sky. It annoys me that Freesat comes with all the +1 Channels because they can't fit them on Freeview One would have thought the whole point of switching off the analogue (as they have here) was to make more room on the channels for the extra channels, but no, Freeview has become the poor man's digital telly.
Edit: It must have been a glitch Mrs E. Friend of mine posted on F/B that that they had no signal last night too - Though she's in Brighton she gets her signal from London./Crystal Palace. Not your transmitter either, obviously, but it must have been "their" fault.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 12, 2010 9:22:20 GMT
Satellite dish, satellite receiver, £60 the lot at ScrewFix. Hundreds of channels including all the usual ones (they're the only ones you'll watch), plus radio. Perfect reception all the time (unless the dish gets overgrown like mine did in the summer -- it's in the garden). Nothing more to pay, nothing to do with Murdoch. You know it makes sense. Google freesat. Took me an hour or two to set it up, run the cable, find the satellite, etc. Your mileage may vary. |
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Post by everso on Oct 12, 2010 10:14:29 GMT
Thanks! That might save all the effing and blinding of an evening.
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Post by rjpageuk on Oct 12, 2010 11:56:41 GMT
Sorry I was a bit short, I was posting on my phone and couldnt be bothered to write more. Weyland cleared it all up for you anyhow  |
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Post by everso on Oct 12, 2010 13:46:50 GMT
Thanks Rob and Weyland. I shall discuss it with Mr. E. this evening.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 17, 2010 14:02:35 GMT
Freesat channel Film-4 today, from 14:00 to 01:40, wall-to-wall Star Trek movies, not all of which are crap. I won't watch them all. Only the last three. Film-4 is showing ten ST films this weekend, including the original ones with Fred Astaire as Spock, Ginger Rogers as Doctor McCoy, and Cyd Charisse as the Klingon ambassador . . .  I dare say Film-4 is on Freeview as well. |
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Post by Patrick on Oct 17, 2010 18:14:40 GMT
The odd thing is that one of the ITV channels has spent the last few weeks working through all the Star Trek Films too. They only finished a couple of weeks ago.
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I feel like I want to slap someone hard. 
