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Bowdon:
I predicted this years ago that eventually Freeview would be dumped once we had fast reliable connections.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/02/freelys-new-live-uk-broadband-tv-service-to-launch-q2-2024.html

https://www.freely.co.uk/

Alex Atkin UK:
What a waste of bandwidth.  Though I guess on the flip side if over the air broadcasts go entirely, it can be re-farmed to long-range 6G?

Bowdon:
I'm glad we're moving away from Freeview because not every house could get the full range of channels. The transmitter that is the local one to my town is like that. I had to get a bigger aerial and pointing to Winterhill to get all the channels.

Alex Atkin UK:
I'd forgotten about that as I barely used it so unplugged the antenna as one less path for lightening.

Being on a hill I can get a signal from the local transmitter and the regional one, so get duplicated channels and have to pick which transmitter I want during setup.

If I pick the local one I can get our local station but lose some of the others, but if I pick the regional one I get more channels but not the local one.

HPsauce:
Freeview has been somewhat rubbish for us ever since it started, so we installed FreeSat years ago. Not sure how long that will last....
We have 3 Humax FreeSat HD tuners, one is also a recorder.

On Freeview it's very weather dependant as to which of two transmitters, both about 30 miles away, "wins" the tuning battle. And which channels are actually detectable/watchable.

That said I'm currently watching Portillo on Ch5HD on my PC with a Hauppauge tuner picking up Freeview from, I think, Crystal Palace.  :lol:

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