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FreeView, will it catch on?
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<blockquote data-quote="rolfw" data-source="post: 13330" data-attributes="member: 175057"><p>Well i don't know about you guys, but I like it and what is more important is that my pensioner Mum likes it.</p><p></p><p>I tried and tried to get her to use the Sky system, but she took to it like a duck to ice. So last week I put an old Nokia box under the TV and gave her the remote control, I explained that the normal channels were the same numbers as before, but by using the channel up and down button, she could access Sky news, ITV2 and BBC news 24 etc. </p><p></p><p>Bingo, she likes it, possible because of the simplicity of control, probably because its free as well, but whatever the reason, she likes it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>Now the point of this apparently pointless post, is that if my Mum will use it, then so will a lot of other technophobes, it bodes well for the new Freeview service.</p><p></p><p>As an addendum to this, as expected, the BBC are not ruling out the provision of pay channels in the future, but not until the main Freeview package has become a success in terms of viewer penetration and the analogue signals are switched off, thus releasing more bandwidth. <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-467054,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">TheTimes Online</span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rolfw, post: 13330, member: 175057"] Well i don't know about you guys, but I like it and what is more important is that my pensioner Mum likes it. I tried and tried to get her to use the Sky system, but she took to it like a duck to ice. So last week I put an old Nokia box under the TV and gave her the remote control, I explained that the normal channels were the same numbers as before, but by using the channel up and down button, she could access Sky news, ITV2 and BBC news 24 etc. Bingo, she likes it, possible because of the simplicity of control, probably because its free as well, but whatever the reason, she likes it :D Now the point of this apparently pointless post, is that if my Mum will use it, then so will a lot of other technophobes, it bodes well for the new Freeview service. As an addendum to this, as expected, the BBC are not ruling out the provision of pay channels in the future, but not until the main Freeview package has become a success in terms of viewer penetration and the analogue signals are switched off, thus releasing more bandwidth. [URL=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-467054,00.html][color=red]TheTimes Online[/color][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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