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pcernie

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Freeview to get two new channels

http://www.techradar.com/news/televisio ... els-669330

My intolerance of ads and heavily repeated programmes means it's been quite some time since I last watched a Freeview channel :oops:

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Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:01 am

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Re: Freeview to get two new channels

the question i have always asked is
why do i have to pay a TV licence to watch 'free' view …

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Re: Freeview to get two new channels


	MrStevenRogers wrote: the question i have always asked is why do i have to pay a TV licence to watch 'free' view …

because its the law.

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Re: Freeview to get two new channels

You don't pay a TV licence to watch freeview. You pay because it's the rules, and to fund (mainly) the BBC.

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Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:32 am

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Re: Freeview to get two new channels

I don't want more channels, I want less +1 channels (people have VCR's, HDD's and Sky+ etc) and some freeview channels in HD.

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Re: Freeview to get two new channels


	l3v1ck wrote: I don't want more channels, I want less +1 channels (people have VCR's, HDD's and Sky+ etc) and some freeview channels in HD.

That last bit is coming - in fact it's already here if you have the kit and live in the right places. Freeview HD is scheduled for full coverage by 2012, when the last analogue signals are switched off.

Currently, it is BBC HD, ITV1 HD (when they can be bothered), with rumours of Channel 4/S4C and Five.

I'd be happy for Freeview to lose all the shopping channels to make some bandwidth for decent programming. There's too much dross on most of the available channels which could easily be cut out.

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