Freely TV

pepp77 · Monday at 15:15

I use it occasionally, it works.

Roll · Tuesday at 00:30

jaybee said:
Anyone utilizing freely and have some feedback?

I've been using the Manhattan Aero 4K TV Streamer with Freely for a few months now and found it to be reliable.

The main drawback for me is that it doesn't come with Apple TV, but this could be added in the future.

Other than that, if Freely is your only method of watching TV then obviously you're stuck if your internet connection goes down.

spile · Tuesday at 06:54

Roll said:
Other than that, if Freely is your only method of watching TV then obviously you're stuck if your internet connection goes down.

One of the reasons I changed to FTTP some years ago. Internet outages are a thing of the past for me.

jaybee · Tuesday at 10:06

Roll said:
I've been using the Manhattan Aero 4K TV Streamer with Freely for a few months now and found it to be reliable.

The main drawback for me is that it doesn't come with Apple TV, but this could be added in the future.

Other than that, if Freely is your only method of watching TV then obviously you're stuck if your internet connection goes down.

Seems it has prime video, netflix, disney plus and plex though? They are the main ones we use I think.
How does live rewind work? DOes it have built in storage to do that?

Briton · Tuesday at 10:19

I have two Hisense TV's with Freely and it works well enough on the rare occasion I watch it. The missus uses it more than me and she hasn't complained.

Roll · Tuesday at 12:31

jaybee said:
Seems it has prime video, netflix, disney plus and plex though? They are the main ones we use I think.
How does live rewind work? DOes it have built in storage to do that?

It's just a streamer without built in storage which is reflected in the price. You can pause live TV but no rewind function.

It has all the common streaming apps (minus Apple TV) and they are faster and more responsive than on my LG smart TV.

Tavis75 · 2026-07-15T07:52:44+0100

spile said:
One of the reasons I changed to FTTP some years ago. Internet outages are a thing of the past for me.

How does that help? During one of the recent heatwaves storm took out one of the main internet hubs for several streets round here, having the last few metres of fibre optic cable isn't helping with that. Ironically, at the same time the media was running (presumably sponsored) stories about Freeview being affected by the hot weather and suggesting people switch to Freely!

Kol · 2026-07-15T09:01:15+0100

In my experience, in 10+ years of having a fibre connection, short of a power cut itself, I haven’t had an outage. Before that, with virgin media’s services that was a completely different story :mad:

Regarding freely, when they release an app for AppleTV (if, maybe) then I’ll be straight on it. It’s a faff having multiple apps. Though I hear ITV channels are the same crappy 25fps ones as ITVX.

Tavis75 · 2026-07-15T09:32:50+0100

Kol said:
Regarding freely, when they release an app for AppleTV (if, maybe) then I’ll be straight on it. It’s a faff having multiple apps. Though I hear ITV channels are the same crappy 25fps ones as ITVX.

Freely still uses multiple apps doesn't it? I think you can select a program to watch from the Freely interface, but unless the program is currently on live then it takes you into the app for that service (and I assume, if it's anything like the similar setup on the EE TV box, that when you finish watching the program you remain in the app and have to manually exit it, which takes several clicks) and you have to have accounts for each app still.