Freely TV

For those thinking this is useful for those bedrooms without ariel points have you considered HDHomeRun - I have had one for 5 years and it works great - basically it takes the tv signal from your single point and, with 4 tuners, sends it over Wifi to any device with the app - I use firesticks or XBox for TVs outside of my lounge, and an app on my tablet for roaming around the garden.

Recently had a firmware update which has helped, EPG is not great but sufficent.

Its not cheap at £155 but once purchased no other costs (unless you want DVR which I never have looked into as if I want to record something I do it on the main TV)
 
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I was quite surprised at the freely puck. My folks have one, they have no aerial and it works pretty well. I’ll wait for an Apple TV app (please!) as I cannot (don’t want to) have more boxes and sources to select from.
 
I got my daughter a Hisense TV and it came with Freely and it works pretty well. I'd be interested in getting something like the Manhattan boxes but reviews seem to be mixed at the moment, maybe they're early models and still to evolve a bit yet?

I'd really like the functionality of being able to series link like we could wish Sky Boxes previously. I know we can go the box set route but even the paid services like Netflix and Prime are getting saturated with Ads and I'd like the ability to forward past them.

Ideally, I'd love something that I could plug into the PC and edit the video files to remove the ads but I've been down rabbit holes with that kind of stuff in the past, with mixed success.
 
Dirk Diggler said:
I got my daughter a Hisense TV and it came with Freely and it works pretty well. I'd be interested in getting something like the Manhattan boxes but reviews seem to be mixed at the moment, maybe they're early models and still to evolve a bit yet?
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I've not seen a Manhattan Freely box, are those new out?
 
My only issue with my hdhomerun was all the HD channels only ever played back in 25fps no matter what app I used to play them. I couldn’t find a setting to change it. From what I read the HD feeds are interlaced, so it was just giving me half the fields or whatever.

I gave up and sold it as I didn’t have the time to mess about.
 
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SexyGreyFox said:
Turned the bedroom TV on yesterday morning and no picture.
On and off 5 times it came on but now it won't come on at all :(
I love my main Hisense in the living room so I've bought this with Freely - Hisense 32 Inch 32E5QTUK - https://uk.hisense.com/products/tv/fhd-hd-tv/TV-SET-32E5QTUK-HSN/p/000000000020016456
My best mate bought the 65" a month ago and loves it so I pick it up in the morning.
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I had I think the previous model in the 55.

I wanted to love it (and they’re so much better than Chinese TVs used to be, I mean night and day better) but I eventually went to an LG OLED because viewing angles are truly horrendous.

I also could not disable horrible motion smoothing on Dolby Vision.
 
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I had I think the previous model in the 55.

I wanted to love it (and they’re so much better than Chinese TVs used to be, I mean night and day better) but I eventually went to an LG OLED because viewing angles are truly horrendous.

I also could not disable horrible motion smoothing on Dolby Vision.
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It's great for my needs although the TV that just broke was fine, I don't need amazing quality or gizmo's in the bedroom (ooh err).
Just spent 30 mins with it and the picture and sound are superb.
 
LuckyBenski said:
I think HDHomeRun seems like a pretty interesting solution for anyone techy. Not looked into it recently but it sounded interesting when I did!
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Yes, I've been using one with Plex for just over two years now and found it works really well, tiny little bit of messing around to get it all set up (but plenty of instructions online and TBH most of the setup issues were Plex in general rather than the HDHomeRun) and it has worked pretty much flawlessly the whole time since, basically as simple to use as a normal PVR and only issues I've had are occasional picture glitches due to bad weather, which is just a general Freeview issue.

Not quite as nicely featured as a TiVo (or Virgin's TiVo based boxes) but seems to stand up pretty well against all the other PVR options out there. I'd love an equivalent style box that worked with Freely streams, but can't imagine that will happen as it gives the consumer too much control, which seems to be very unpopular with media companies these days.
 
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