Maz

What are they?

We're considering getting rid of our Sky hookup, to save some money. I know it's not a lot, but it's that little bit that might be the make-or-break (same goes for the home phone, barely use it).

Anyway, just curious as to which channels we'd get with the aerial on the roof.

Ta.

P2L

We get 1,2,3 and Prime

dreamfish

we get those, plus maori channel

owen

Does freeview add any more?

Dustybin

plus C4, CTV (which is very random!), Some strange home broadcast channel which seems to be some blokes bad holiday videos, and one for those of you that like to bother God.

My advice find a nice pub and make friends with the staff!

jueinnz

What about NASA? we can get NASA....its .....well.....ummmm.....what can you say....interesting

Maz

Not a bad idea, thank you!

NASA Channel is broadcast??? We got that via satellite in the US, actually watched it quite a lot, how sad is that?

jueinnz

Well we get it, purhaps we got our thingy pionted in the right direction,!!!!!!!!! its not always a great piture

We get an asian channel too, but I don't understand much of what goes on , looks like they are having fun though!

cypherpunk

When the Freeview terrestrial service launches later this year (supposed to be April) you will be able to get all these channels: http://freeviewnz.tv/index.php?section_id=5

But you'll need to buy a set-top box for a one-off charge of a few hundred dollars, and maybe get your aerial tweaked a bit.

banshigirl

Would our freeview work if we brought it with us?

They have really gone down in price now. They are about £25 each now for a basic model.

dreamfish

loads of threads about bringing freeview boxes, and the answer is no they wont

however - my uk tv has a freeview receiver inbuilt. the tv itself can be tweaked for any country - so on that basis i am wondering whether the freeview element of it will work.

at the moment the freeview is received through dishes. i have been quoted anything between $600 and $900 for an all in installation. oh how i larfed.

so i have a coat hanger type aerial, i am able to receive 5 channels - and really, do i want another 100 channels of mind blowing, eyes peeling, cr@p? oh my dear lord.

but if we do 'upgrade' (hahahahahahahaaa ROFL LMAO and all the others) to Freeview then i will wait till the aerial option is out. For our area in wellington, some time this year.

in no hurry.

what you may find is that you spend the first 8 weeks of your life in NZ with no telly cos its on the container, and lots of time out of your rental looking around, that when your telly eventually arrives - actually you're not all that bothered over it. We watch far less telly than we used to,.

Kiwiprincess

Is ctv the channel which plays german tv and then al jazeera news at night? Very random.

It really depends on where you live as to which channels you get. You are in the Aotea block right? You should be able to get at least tv1, tv2, tv3, prime, music channel (C4?), Maori TV (great for movies – quite random that), ctv (if its that weird one) and probably racing.

Others will depend which repeater or something you get your tv channels off…maybe mt kaukau??


otherwise maybe freeview - i think you get all of the above channels and then some.

cypherpunk

It needs to support a compression method called H.264. Some of the very latest TVs might do this, it should say so in your manual.

dreamfish

ah yes , the manual.

yet to come across that - box 649....somewhere in the depths of the garage

(but thank you - i will look for an online version)

irnbru14

I've said it once, oh and then once again, and probably mentioned it a few other times, so I'll say it again, Kiwi telly is cr@p...