The thing to remember with Freeview, Glynis, is that the reception is only so good as the digital signal in your area and your aerial. So before doing anything check out the strength of the signal and whether your aerial is good enough. I'd never had that good a picture even while we were still on an analogue signal and digital reception was even worse - though the TV had a built in Freeview box. So faced with the choice of either spending a lot to have the aerial upgraded in order to get a decent signal or ditch the Freeview, I decided to bite the bullet and go with a complete Virgin cable package.

Not necessarily the cheapest way of doing it but the service from Virgin has been very good - my V+ box has fried itself twice and Virgin replaced it without question within 24 hrs on each occasion, including coming out on a Saturday morning. I'm not interested in the Sky channels but could buy them as an extra if I wanted to. Given that it includes the TV, Broadband, telephone line rental and all calls 24/7 plus my mobile package I reckon it it not bad value. And certainly a lot less hassle than I would have had to go through to upgrade the aerial so I am happy with it because a good fast, reliable Broadband connection is as important to me as the TV etc.

SM

Just another point about Freeview, we have a great signal on Freeview as the transmitter is only a mile away, however, and it is a BIG however, we only receive 20 TV channels as that is allegedly all the transmitter is capable of handling without an upgrade which they won't do for financial reasons.

I know some areas can get something around about 80? Freeview channels, so do enquire how many Freeview channels you can actually receive via your aerial and local transmitter before deciding to go down that route.

Found this which might help http://www.freeview.co.uk/availability

Thanks SM for your input

We have a decent aerial as when we had to change it we got a digital one (I think that's what he said) lol.

I think we'd like to keep Netflix at £6pm but I don't want to add to our bills. I suppose we could drop our sky package to the basic one that will include Sky+ so we can still record, at £21.50. Then take Netflix at £6 so roughly the same.

Decisions

Kiltman HT Mod wrote:

Just another point about Freeview, we have a great signal on Freeview as the transmitter is only a mile away, however, and it is a BIG however, we only receive 20 TV channels as that is allegedly all the transmitter is capable of handling without an upgrade which they won't do for financial reasons.

I know some areas can get something around about 80? Freeview channels, so do enquire how many Freeview channels you can actually receive via your aerial and local transmitter before deciding to go down that route.

Thanks Graham, have used your link and we should get 80 freeview, 6 HD, 24 radio.

Thanks Graham, have used your link and we should get 80 freeview, 6 HD, 24 radio

That's nice ...........................

Kiltman HT Mod wrote:

Thanks Graham, have used your link and we should get 80 freeview, 6 HD, 24 radio

That's nice ........................... :rofl

Just had a word with my friend son who suggested Roku. But it's all just confused me further

I'm wanting everything cheap, that's my problem...lol