Can any of you boffins give us a lead on a box.Our Dan is coming home for a week.He has told us he can only get bbc on his telly in the house he shares.So we are going to buy him a set top box.But i am baffled as which one to buy.Any suggestions will be welcome.Mrs Postman says not more than £100.Many thanks in advance.
Freeview,YouView or Freesat boxes.
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twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Could it be he doesn't have the correct aerial? Or are you saying his current box is dying?
Spiderweb
Not So Special One
- Location
- North Yorkshire
It could be an aerial issue. We couldn't get all the freeview channels on the TV's which weren't connected to the satellite dish. We had a new aerial fitted, everything is fine now.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
What is he using to only receive the BBC? There are no analogue broadcasts any more so he must be using a digital receiver of some kind. He should try getting it to scan for channels and make sure that all the ones that he wants are enabled. I have disabled lots of the channels that I will never want to watch, such as all of the children's channels. I don't even see them in the listings any more. It might be that some non-BBC-hating person has done that to all non-BBC channels on his current system.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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- Armonmy Way
If there's a reception problem but he has reasonable broadband it might me easier to get something like Chromecast and stream from laptop to the television. I got one earlier this year and it's had a surprising amount of use. £30.
