Freeview Reviews 299

Just to add to the disgust at program availability and quality on Freeview.

COPY TO BBC QUESTIONS FROM PUBLIC:

Dear BBC,

It seems the South East TV has no place in the Freeview programmes and that South East TV viewers have not any access in choosing what they want to see and what not.
How is it possible on the 21st century anything as technically primitive as Freeview can rule what different parts of the UK can see in their tellies and even getting at all to a large part of the channels?
There must be a more up-to-date means to run something as unique as the British TV network and to give equal choice of TV programmes to every citizen on this island.

Yet again Freeview has decided to lose channels with NO notice, having already lost a plethora of channels I enjoyed, had to re tune my LG to receive anything at all to discover ALL of the Quest channels,Dave, Really, among many others have disappeared, now down to 77 channels from a peak of some 160, channels that are left are in the main utter dross or worse shopping.

I called today. I was giving advice on retuning without the aerial in. I lost all channels. I called back. Only to be put on hold costing me money. No help what so ever now I have no tv channels what so ever.

For six days this week no tv. For the first four days only bbc channels and nothing else. For the last two days all we can get is itv c4 c5 more4+1 etc. Attitude from freeview, hunax and bbc is 'just put up with iti'. Bbc says there is no work being done Freeview says there is. I was sold freeview and £289 humax box specifically that we would never lose signal. Freeview and Humax are nothing but fraudsters. DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM.

I have never had a problem with my tv until I bought a Samsung tv and using built in free view. There is nothing wrong with my antenna which they seem to keep wanting to blame. Give me free sat over free view any day.

HP9 2DJ ….. No free view signal Boxing Day 2023 … No Freeview signal New years Eve 2023 … No free view signal 2nd January 2024 .. No Freeview signal 4th January 2024 in the middle of The FA Cup live game ITV 4 …. I’m sure the advertising budget will not cover the expenditure that ITV payed for the rights to pay for the coverage … This is an issue that we are all concerned with ….

What is the point of Freeview?? Even @ Christmas, you’d think they'd put on something decent to watch.. but no. Back in the old days of LWT there’d be films old day long till the evening with family viewing now it’s just constantly watching rubbish, which should be a days of enjoyment!! SHAME ON YOU FREEVIEW!!

TV fine one minute. Next min completely unwatchable. All pixelating. Freeview is a joke, but suppose cos it's "free" we are expected to just put up with a crap service. Thinking about ditching it as it's more unwatchable than it is watchable.

Freeview is so bad it is untrue sometimes. There are so many terrible channels with cheap reality TV, shocking 'freakshow' documentaries and endless runs of films which were flops in the first place. I would get Netflix if I could because at least you can watch films or TV in different languages and occasionally find something decent. Does anyone actually make programmes any more?

It just seems extremely annoying that we were all forced into buying “wonderful” digital TVs when the Freeview TV reception is now worse than ever. Now, every time there is a hint of sunshine, or High Pressure weather, most of our TV channels (Talking Pictures, Sky Arts etc) disappear. Also, the major channels pixilate or freeze intermittently as well, whatever the weather. Also there is no way to complain to anyone so that things could improve. We are not happy and feel we have been conned into spending lots of money on buying digital TVs for an inferior service.

Customer service phone gets cutoff half way through opening recording. Cannot register a complaint. When tv programme is popular (match of the day etc) freeview cannot cope in my area. Screen freezes and pixelates. My tv 3 weeks old and does not have any problems. All down to freeview in my area. I have no problem with freeview when I use my Bt box or on sky.

I need to return my second box which is faulty can anybody help where to send it back I am not going through freestat again.

Same films every week,repeat repeat repeat they show a lot of rubbish

When analogue was still available I received a good quality picture.
Since the big digital switch on, i now get pixilated pictures on most of the channels, and it's hit and miss if I can get Talking pictures along with any film channel .
I can however get all the selling channels which are of no interest to me . I need to give a date to the problem .YEARS

Still not been able to watch any television since 9.00pm Friday phoned helpline probably due to the weather unable to help, wait until Monday or Tuesday then try again thanks a lot freeview we can't all have other services

They say you can watch freeview online on your laptop by selecting play from their TV guide. This is rubbish. The only things that work are the links they use to the BBC iPlayer. Nothing else works, it just brings up a pop-up to download their app. So, in short it doesn't work on a laptop and for BBC channels you may as well cut out the middle man and go straight to iPlayer.

Why all of the HIV drug commercials? You’d think that the majority of their audience is infected.

Unusable. Constant retunes-random channels returned. Unusable. At least Freesat is reliable.