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| Thread ID: 77490 | 2007-03-11 20:30:00 | Freeview to cost $700 | Hitech (9024) | PC World Chat |
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| 532091 | 2007-03-12 20:39:00 | Don't count on it as these two providers have a 12 month monopoly on set top boxes and no others will be certified.. i think you missed the point. no one said you had to use "certified" boxes. the certification is a bit of a joke. unless you run a subsription service ie have smart cards like sky does, there is no way of controlling what set top boxes get used. guys from the states tell me this is how its done over there even with pay tv. you go to the shop buy a dish and reciever, set it all up and then ring the provider and buy the service you want. the monthy they pay is far far cheaper than what you pay sky. but you actually own the dish and sat receiver, if it breaks down its your problem ;) |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 532092 | 2007-03-12 21:28:00 | In my view freeview is doomed to fail for instance we already have sky and tvnz providing free to air channels so who is going to spend $700 on a box and a dish to get the same thing again through another system ok im aware more channels are coming but on this side of 2007/08 we are only getting two new ones and they are news 24 and the home channel we already have enough news channels and the home channel im sure will be something like playhouse disney or the living channel with a mix of the two combined to become the home channel what a waste of taxpayer dollars this outfit will be it has failiure written all over it in my view. | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 532093 | 2007-03-12 23:55:00 | i think you missed the point. no one said you had to use "certified" boxes. the certification is a bit of a joke. unless you run a subsription service ie have smart cards like sky does, there is no way of controlling what set top boxes get used. I hope your correct. Don't know if you remember back in the late 80s when Telecom used the big stick on companies who brought in and sold phones that were not certified by them. Will be interesting to see if Freeview try the same trick for the first 12 months.. Will be interesting to see if anyone sells other DVB-T boxes. . |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 532094 | 2007-03-13 02:19:00 | I hope your correct. Don't know if you remember back in the late 80s when Telecom used the big stick on companies who brought in and sold phones that were not certified by them. Will be interesting to see if Freeview try the same trick for the first 12 months.. Will be interesting to see if anyone sells other DVB-T boxes.. Telecom was a slightly different story... using a non Telecom phone could theoreticly stuff up your connection and probably bring the whole phone system in the North/South Island down. With Freeview it ain't connected into anything other than a sat dish... it'll only affect you if something goes haywire. I already have a sky dish on the roof and just bought a 'freeview' box for a about $100.00.... cheap and possibly nasty- but if it works (well-if it arrives in the mail) it's about the same price as a uhf aerial and should be better reception. |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 532095 | 2007-03-13 02:23:00 | In my view freeview is doomed to fail for instance we already have sky and tvnz providing free to air channels so who is going to spend $700 on a box and a dish to get the same thing again through another system ok im aware more channels are coming but on this side of 2007/08 we are only getting two new ones and they are news 24 and the home channel we already have enough news channels and the home channel im sure will be something like playhouse disney or the living channel with a mix of the two combined to become the home channel what a waste of taxpayer dollars this outfit will be it has failiure written all over it in my view. A lot of people subscribe to Sky digital just for the FTA channels, because not everyone is in an area where they receive great reception on a UHF/VHF aerial and not everyone wants to subscribe to an overpriced sky TV service. |
DarkCypher (11945) | ||
| 532096 | 2007-03-13 03:38:00 | Ok so those people who are subscribing for the free to air channels are paying for channels that aren't free cause you are paying sky to get them. Channels 1 2 3 4 maori tv and some radio channels are what sky call the basic package and this costs around $20 a month so how can people say these channels are free to air when you have to pay for the rental of the decoder from sky. Im sure that $20 somehow finds its way into tvnz canwest and skys pockets. | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 532097 | 2007-03-13 04:43:00 | who is going to spend $700 on a box and a dish to get the same thing again through another system People living in areas without terrestrial reception who have to pay Sky to access their transmissions of the FTA channels. People who don't have good reception on all channels (eg. we don't get TV One very clearly). People with flat panel televisions larger than 37-inches (analogue doesn't look so good, DVD looks good and HD looks execptional, though that is still a while away). People who also want to pick up other FTA stations (eg. stations such as Russia Today, Oman TV, Al Jazeera, TV5 Monde (when the latter two start again) and the many religious stations). Although, they won't realistically need to spend $700. If you look at the products that Freeview Shop (http://www.freeviewshop.co.nz) sells, you could buy the necessary components for a very basic system from around $350 up. |
maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 532098 | 2007-03-13 05:00:00 | ... Telecom was a slightly different story... using a non Telecom phone could theoreticly stuff up your connection and probably bring the whole phone system in the North/South Island down.Telecom managed to do exactly that all by themselves, just by installing software upgrades which didn't work, only to discover that their "backups" weren't readable. :D I'm sure the price will drop ... but it does take time. Unfortunately, the programmes will never improve. :( |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 532099 | 2007-03-13 05:04:00 | Dick Smiths are now sellng 2 Freeview approved units for $248 each certainly not the $300 some in the media are quoting. | apsattv (7406) | ||
| 532100 | 2007-03-13 06:22:00 | Telecom managed to do exactly that all by themselves, just by installing software upgrades which didn't work, only to discover that their "backups" weren't readable. :D I'm sure the price will drop ... but it does take time. Unfortunately, the programmes will never improve. :( I was assuming that people would want to stuff things up themselves without waiting for Telecom to help out :thumbs: |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
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