Internet on Freeview

Trumpet

Trumpet

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Saw some freeview boxes at Chirk boot sale yesterday that came with a keyboard and offered internet access through freeview. Never seen these before, I chatted briefly with the guy selling them but he was a bit vague about what they could do, when he used the word interweb I decided he knew bugger all about them.
Has anyone on here any experience of these? I Googled it but found loads of stuff about watching TV via the internet but not accessing internet via TV.
 
Wormella

Wormella

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Our new freeview box has a crappy Internet channel - really rubbish games you have to pay for, news, tv guides etc - I'm not sure what else it does.
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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Not sure about these new fangled things but some boozers on the outskirts of the town appear to be broadcasting Premier games live at 3.00pm on a Saturday either via the interweb or some deal with another European countries version of Sky Sports...

I could name a couple but I am not be 100 per cent sure it is legit , so to speak...
 
iTomTechnology

iTomTechnology

Tom Hulme
John.. Pubs are actually allowed to do this, it isn't illegal as i'm aware. They have genuine subscriptions to show the football, albeit the subscriptions are in another country i.e Sky Italia
 
Trumpet

Trumpet

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I remember a town centre pub getting a warning for showing football via a domestic Sky contract a while back.
 
My Name is URL

My Name is URL

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http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/sentinel-the-stoke-on-trent-uk/mi_8019/is_20100814/pubs-court-showing-stoke-games/ai_n54796180/
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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UltraSBM said:
It ain't like domestic sky is cheap.
£62 a month for mine :(
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I have all the normal packages but not the movies/sports, and have HD. Costs me £11.50 a month :D

Unfortunately this deal expires in December, when I shall be ditching the lot and moving to freeview I think. Its just not worth it, never watch the thing.
 
db

db

#chaplife
UltraSBM said:
It ain't like domestic sky is cheap.
£62 a month for mine :(
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jesus wept, do you ever actually watch any of the stuff you're paying for though?? i have the basic package, which is about £14 a month, and that gives you all the channels you would normally want - sky1/2/3, e4, comedy channels, etc..

it's clear from your other posts that you're a computer boffin - why the hell are you paying for movie channels and stuff?? don't you just pirate them like any normal person??
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I haven't had even a TV licence ( or a television, before you start ) since 1983 and am constantly bemused by how people find the time ( or the inclination ) to watch it. It is far more economical to waste time on the Forum - and it doesn't cost a hundred and thirty quid - or whatever it is - a year...

I was challenged ( no other word for it ) by one of the Sky boys in the Guildhall once who laughed when I told him that I didn't have a telly. So I challenged him back - 'OK. Show me something worth watching on any channel available through Sky at this moment!' He failed..
 
db

db

#chaplife
Gramaisc said:
I haven't had even a TV licence ( or a television, before you start ) since 1983 and am constantly bemused by how people find the time ( or the inclination ) to watch it. It is far more economical to waste time on the Forum
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get with the programme, grandad! people do both at the same time these days!

seriously, what do you do all day? i assume, from some of your other posts, that you're not currently in full-time employment.. you honestly believe you don't have a few hours spare in a day to watch a bit of tv? what the hell are you so busy with?? lol
 
Andreas Rex

Andreas Rex

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db said:
Gramaisc said:
I haven't had even a TV licence ( or a television, before you start ) since 1983 and am constantly bemused by how people find the time ( or the inclination ) to watch it. It is far more economical to waste time on the Forum
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get with the programme, grandad! people do both at the same time these days!
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Yeah I'm usually watching something on www.tvcatchup.com whilst working in the evenings.
 
db

db

#chaplife
Gramaisc said:
I'm employed as full-time as I need to be..

And, apparently, media multi-tasking is a myth, says the BBC - so it must be true..
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er, the article you link to doesn't suggest it's a myth at all.. if anything, it supports the notion, just makes the point that by doing 2 things at once we are reducing the attention we give to each task..

i regularly watch tv while using the laptop at the same time, i was thinking of exactly that habit when i made my original reply to you.. tweeting along to a tv programme in real time is becoming more and more common, and if anyone has checked facebook whilst the x-factor is on they'll know exactly what i mean - that's all people's updates are ever about at that time on a saturday*! lol


*(cue people going "no-one that watches x-factor would be on my facebook friend list thankyouverymuch :raise:")
 
db

db

#chaplife
gk141054 said:
db said:
i have the basic package, which is about £14 a month,
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Sky's cheapest package is £18 now (1 mix), so which package do you have?!?!?!
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that one, i guess.. i did say "about £14" lol.. that's what it was when i signed up, i guess it's crept up a few quid in the last couple of years..

still, i just don't believe that anyone can actually make use of a £62/mo package :lorks:
 
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