Freeview TV

[Deleted member 1258]

You can stick in a fire stick in if you want to get streamed channels via the internet or use an Xbox etc if one is attached without buying a smart TV.

Shaun

Yes thats what I've got, the Roko one, I don't watch a lot of TV but I've a linux computer and don't get all the catch up services on it, the stick gets me all but one of the catch up services

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and...roku-3500eu-streaming-stick-22067491-pdt.html

 

[fossyant]

Or get one of the Android boxes that plug in like Roku and the fire stick, but aren't 'locked' so you can put Kodi etc on it.

 

[PeteXXX]

There seems to be plenty of options for me to explore, thanks folks.
No doubt MrsXXX will find something wrong with them

 

[phil_hg_uk]

There seems to be plenty of options for me to explore, thanks folks.
No doubt MrsXXX will find something wrong with them

Of course you could just turn off the TV & do something else

 

[summerdays]

We've never had Sky or any other subscription TV other than the TV licience and recently Netflix for the teens.

I watch too much TV as it is, and have loads recorded to watch sometime. We have freesat because we were having problems with our ariel.

 

[Drago]

Watch all our TV on ToView via the internet now. The naughty ShowBox app is brilliant for newly released movies, vert much like Kodi.

 

[Turdus philomelos]

I have freeview and Google Chromecast for cyclinghub.tv

 

[ColinJ]

I like my Humax Freesat box and I can get Netflix, Mubi, Eurosport etc. on my Samsung smart TV.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I have freeview and Google Chromecast for cyclinghub.tv

Same low-tech solution here. Chromecast has added to my time wasting with far more sites than cyclinghub.tv though.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I've only ever had freeview so can't comment on what you'll be missing but as a not much of a TV viewer I can always find something to watch when the mood takes me.

 

[TheDoctor]

Freebies and a Chromecast here. Anything I can watch on the tablet I can watch on the TV with loud sound. Should it need loud sound, of course.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Freeview here, with smart TVs for Netflix. I also have a Chromecast for when I want to watch web video on a big screen, and a NowTV box for a smattering of what Sky offers, and access to all the catch-up TV (my Panasonic telly only has iPlayer).

 

[robjh]

You can find a huge mount of crap to watch on Freeview, I see no reason to pay to have more.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

I sacked Sky off years ago. They used to have me trapped, like so many people with crappy Premiership football (the best football league in the world , as they kept saying). Then it dawned on me, what a pile of crap it was, how money had ruined it, how much cheating went on, how bad the referee's were, blah, blah. I just stopped watching it and ditched sky. Never looked back. My tv has built-in Freesat and Freeview, my dish has just corroded to death, so I've swapped to freeview. It's got slightly less channels, but the best few, that I only ever really watched are there, so I'm not really bothered.

 

[ColinJ]

One thing that I forgot to mention is that a significant minority of the UK (including us here in the Calder Valley) are fobbed off with 'Freeview Lite'. We only get about 11 or 12 of the main channels. Freesat gives a much bigger selection.

Oh, and I think the picture quality from my Freesat box is better than it is on many Freeview systems.