Looking up our reception ability on the official digital website, the message for my postcode is that there are no plans for digital. The Freeview website tells me that Freeview isn't available for my postcode. But a friend of DH, whose postcode is only supposed to be able to receive 2 digital channels, decided he'd buy a box and try it anyway. He can get all Freeview channels on his existing aerial. So he suggest that we borrow it to see if we could get anything - we can.
We can't get ITV1 or Channel 4, but we've got those on analogue. We can't get ITV2, Teletext or ITV News. We can receive everything else perfectly, including 19 digital radio stations, with the aerial that's been strapped to the chimney for the past goodness-knows-how-many years. If we upgraded our aerial, we might even be able to get the missing ones, but as the digital ones are mainly repeats, we probably won't bother. The only problem we had with the set up was that we'd never read the instruction book for the TV, but when we die, found we had to press the AV button on the remote to get it to receive from the digital box, then TV to get back to analogue. So DH has been listening to a jazz radio programme, watching UK History and pressing the red button like mad on the TV channels. We can finally get Channel 5, which we haven't been able to because we're too close to France and for us to get a strong enough digital signal, it would interfere with French TV. Just thought that Arachneans in the UK would like to know that the postcode digital reception information seems to be complete rubbish, and if anyone's not been buying a box because of it, it's worth borrowing one to see what you can get. We'd not gone for cable or satellite because most of the content of the package didn't appeal to us at all, and we don't see the point of paying 38 pounds a month for the couple of extra channels we'd watch. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
