I’ve just retuned our Freeview set-top box as instructed and yes we can’t get channel five anymore! A quick visit to the Freeview website, when it’s working, and I find a message – Owners of affected digital boxes are advised to replace them with a product carrying the “digital tick”. Why should I have buy yet more stuff and create yet more waste? I don’t want to upgrade a perfectly good Freeview box (until 30th September) and my television is not HD. And if I did want high definition television I would get Freesat TV anyway. Are Freeview expecting consumers to rush out and buy a new Freeview box with the aforementioned “digital tick” then only to discover that they won’t even be able to receive HD when it does arrive on Freeview?!
And what if – like my dad – you’ve never had call to use the internet, what do you do then? Rush out to your local retailer and get talked into buying a TV that is far too big for your front room, with a worst picture than your old tube telly and uses far more electricity – progress!
PS Finally after four retunes my Freeview digibox starts working again!
