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Welcome to Latest Freeview News - a guide to everything on the freeview platform. At the moment, it's still very much under construction, but we do have an up-to-date freeview channel list, complete with the on air times and channel numbers.
I rescanned my freeview box today and it picked up two new channels. Channel 43 will be the new SKY3 +1 service, when Sky Sports News leaves freeview and CH202 appears to be a local dating service. My TV guide shows the name of the channel as ManchesterLove. I will post further updates when this is confirmed.
The Thompson DTI6300 Top Up TV+ Digital TV Recorder is probably the best Freeview box around - I currently have two! Here are a few things you need to think aboiut before considering to buy one.
Good Points- They have a 160GB hard drive, enabling you to record hours of TV programmes.
- Two tuners, so that you can watch one programme whilst recording another.
- Attractive and easy-to-use menus and programme library.
Bad Points
- Whilst fast-forwarding, the box may just suddenly rewind to a much earlier point!
- Updates occuring at the same time as you're recording a programme - you'll get a message saying 'Recording Failed'
More to come very soon.
Next month, Virgin 1 will be rebranded, following Sky's aquisition of a number of Virgin's tv channels - these channels include Living and Bravo, not shown on freeview. The new name for the channel will simply be Channel One, which will still run the same type of programming as Virgin 1 - mostly re-runs of US shows.
I look forward to seeing the new channel, but can't help thinking that it's another chance for Sky to promote it's products onto us freeview viewers. We shall, invariably, see.
You can now watch sky sports 1 & 2 on freeview - signing up with top-up tv. The price to subscribe to one of these channels is £23.99 and to sign-up to both, it's £31.99. I registered on Monday, but didn't receive any pictures until Friday.
I was looking forward to watching Norwich v Watford, but it was shown on Sky Sports 3, so I missed out! Then, another live match on Saturday was shown, you guessed it, on SS3! I hope Sky wont be employing this sort of trick too often.
You can find the new channels on CH41 & CH42.
For the last few days, there has been nothing but a blank screen on Dave Ja Vu (channel 25). I had feared that we were losing this channel, but I now know that a simple rescan of your freeview box will fix this. So, don't worry, you can still get your repeats of Dragon's Den, repeated an hour later on Dave Ja Vu :)
