Freeview Reviews 298

I live in an area with poor aerial reception and so channel availability is limited, however, the Freeview website clearly states that you can view all of their channels on an internet connected TV via Freeview Play so I purchased a play box for £179. It turns out that this is not the case after all- if you can't get them via your aerial, you can't get them period. I queried this with the online chat service and 'Miriam' elected not to address any of my concerns re being misled and so I now have a £179 Humax play box that I don't need but can't return because its been opened.

I have to agree with the recent reviews I have observed. In these rather upsetting times I and my husband would wish to be brought into some joyous, hopefulness and optimism not pessimism..not good for the sole, especially over the recent pandemic of sadness and dreariness. Please can we have some joyfulness/mystery/overcoming pessimism with optimism! Come back Saturday morning pictures of fun for life for the good not evil!l

Dilys Duncan

The problem for me is that the two channels I would wish to watch I cannot get. Weston Super Mare is not in the middle of no where.
Reasons given but not of any help to me.

Repeats, repeats, repeats ..... Very old programmes and films. Do they care about their customers, no! Do they read the reviews, no! So many people can't afford paying for their programmes. Should be ashamed of themselves.

Freeview is absolutely terrible. Most channels are boring and repeats going back years and years. Let's face it they don't care about who's watching it they only care about the money. It's riddled with so many adverts that it's unwatchable, can hardly go 10 minutes without a loads of ads. It's a waste of time and should be broken up and a company that doesn't want to line their pockets put in control. Whoever is at the top should be ashamed of themselves.

BBC1 is continually poor and you can't complain. If you check the transmitter it continually says there is no problems. If that's the case why are we having problems. Freeview should be probe by the Watchdog.

Of course Freeview is crap it’s owned by another crap company BBC !!! BBC should be forced to drop the British from their title, they are no longer the premier and only broadcasting company, but just another crap bottom end player !!!

I have to agree with the majority on here you get interested in a programme then 10 minutes into it there is then 10 minutes of adverts so in desperation of watching charity adverts for donkeys you switch over to BBC I know the adverts pay for the service but they are rediculously long is free view providing a service or an advertising platform ??

Oh it must be monday 2 films war lover and men at war , they must be worn out the tape must be wearing thin after years and years of the same crap , is that your only films freeview , its like groundhog day ffs.

Should be called review...hours of the same programmes on one channel then plus again.signal awful and the horror films on at prime time have been on channel 5

Freeview should be renamed to free repeat. Same old crap. Day in day out. Hardly any HD channels. Way too many adverts. Adverts
Every 10 minutes. Bloody disgrace.

Stopped watching Freeview TV because too many adverts. Netflix is good and would recommend

Yet another set of utterly dire Christmas through to New Year films. The repetition of a number of shows from the first to last series over and over again is mind numbing. The includes the films. The BBC seem determined to force viewers to sign up for pay per view with other companies. Certain channels reception regularly vanishes or becomes unwatchable.

Of course it's crap freeview is owned by the BBC same as Chanel 5 lot of people dont know that BBC try to hide the fact they own it

If I could give free view zero stars I would. Repeat after repeat is all I can say for this waste of time TV. My god every channel is just a waste of time from BBC to forces TV at channel 96. No wonder people eligally down load compared to the Xmas rubbish and year round rubbish that these channels show.

Its a total lottery whether you will be able to watch certain channels or not. Sometimes channel 81 Talkingpicturestv won't even show at all!! Other days it's perfect, this happens on quite a few of the Freeview channels, so unreliable and the amount of ads is ridiculous!!! The money Freeview rake in from excessive ads should guarantee a good service.

YET ANOTHER LOST WEEKEND AS FREEVIEW HAS DECIDED TO PLAY UP YET AGAIN.
WHEN IS THIS PATHETIC SERVICE GOING TO BE REPLACED WITH SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY WORKS?

Freeview not fit for purpose. Pile of utter crap. You stuff the 160 quid tv licence up where the sun don't shine

I’ve given up on freeview channels, so many repeated films on.. why are repeated films on with Sylvester Stallone! Why is Star Trek on all day on the horror channel with repeat horror films on? Why are the same Columbo repeat episodes on 5 USA channel every weekend? Why is “Fraser” being repeated again on channel 4 all over again? Whoever is organising the programme must think we are forgetting after watching films/dramas!! What happened to good drama, films and Disney animation films like fir the children in lockdown?

What the hell is going on with Freeview,I retuned my TV when told,but was still getting messages saying retune on certain channels have now retuned and lost more channels and some don't work why the hell am I paying for a TV licence