goldenfleece Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 1) If my local area is a good indicator, people are binning their SKY dishes by the truckload......thats three more this week in my street alone who have switched to either Freeview or old fashionaed analog TV, and ditched the old dish for good. Everywhere you go you see SKy dishes in skips and bins...there is one kicking around in the field opposite me as I speak... 2) No sattelite signal is being received..... 3) No sattelite signal is being received....AGAIN 4) No sattelite signal is being received...EVER! 5) WHy pay for 300 channels of crap when you can have 20 channels of crap for free! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princess_rockchick Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Heheheheehe! Thats rather interesting and funny. I don't have sky, i have the wonderful and crappy freeview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordChaverly Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 I have seldom had a problem with mine, except during inclement weather (particularly heavy rain) when the picture sometimes breaks up. Sky plus is a very good feature, enabling you to pause or rewind live TV or to record two programmes at the same time and watch another. Moreover, to record, you just need to press one button. No fiddling with disks or tapes either. You can record up to 100 hours of programmes on to the hard disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blade1983 Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 - we can't even get freeview in s26 according to their website. - we can't get Cable - think they're waiting until after the roads and pavements have been re-surfaced, then they may come and dig them up again to put Cable in - and we don't have a TV Arial - so we're pretty much stuck with Sky (although we could go for the free sky option, but we pay a radicular amount a month instead) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 I'd rather have telewest with TVDrive (sky+ equivalent) and the channels that I watch (sky one, ukLiving) than freeview that i'll just never watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuff Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Freeview is crap. Sky rules. Sky+ is excellent. Sky Movies and the Sports channels aren't available on Freeview. Freeview is for cheap people who can't afford Sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princess_rockchick Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 There is one film channel on freeview, which frankly makes it a little better than it used to be and who knows channels you pay for on sky may also be on freeview someday.... It could happen. My parents have Sky, My brother has sky. I can't be arsed to get sky at the moment. Maybe one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenH Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 I cold live fine with just the BBC. When I was on holiday in the summer I stayed somewhere with lots of channels and found the only thing worth watching was either a repeat of an old BBC programme (or perhaps ITV such as Morse) or GemTV. GemTV is so funny it is worth watching for a few minutes a day to cheer yourself up but otherwise it all seemed like rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenfleece Posted September 27, 2006 Author Share Posted September 27, 2006 Freeview is crap. Sky rules. Sky+ is excellent. Sky Movies and the Sports channels aren't available on Freeview. Freeview is for cheap people who can't afford Sky. I can afford SKY but dont want it. Sports channels? Who need em? Not me... Sky Movies and Box Office show nothing but the same stuff you can rent CHEAPER in your local Blockbuster.. Bye bye dish......maybe I can make a museum exhibit out of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Try to find the latest series of the simpsons, greys anatomy, battlestar galactica, my name is earl or ER on freeview or terrestial. You'll be disappointed. Use series record and I don't have to worry about missing one or when they are scheduled to show, I can watch one whenever I feel like having 30 mins in front of the tele. And I can skip all the adverts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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