Freeview Reviews 298

Freeview / Crystal Palace not sending out correct WSS (Widescreen signalling) metadata on PSB2, Mux D3&4, BCh. 26 resulting in picture display issues, since 27th April onwards.

Freeview - what is going on?

I can't match your TV guide with the actual listings.
I've missed out on so many programmes because of this. For example, I was keen to watch Play for Today this evening on BBC Four but somehow we were 'treated' to the snooker. That's all well and good if you enjoy snooker. Unfortunately I don't.
It is a wonder anyone is watching TV these days, particularly through Freeview. Ok, so we don't pay but advertisers do and, if no-one is watching Freeview, your advertising revenue will be lost for good.
Come on, it's not rocket science!

Repeats, Repeats & more Repeats especially the movie channels... Dreadful, Ads every 7-8 mins which makes it even more annoying.. I Guess that's what you get for free 🤔

Don't just sit there and moan this profile isn't claimed. Complain to the right people

Terrible reception for our area. Main transmitter too!! Absolutely shocking for the 21st century. Wife trying to watch soaps on STV so tried the player online which is no better so she's missing everything. Been like this all weekend and up to today. Will be forced to go to Sky and pay for decent reception for ordinary channels

Freeview, well, the most boring set of TV channels you could want to watch. Repeat after repeat of the most boring films, TV programmes you could watch.

Without a shadow of a doubt the worst television broadcasting co in the country. If the sun comes out and a bit of high pressure it stops working. Then they give you a load of old flannel about retuning your tv. They never own up to the fact that it is an appalling service, if they cannot run it properly step aside an let someone in who can run it properly. I have given it one star because I had to. I would prefer to give freeview no stars

CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY YOUR UPDATES HAVE CHANGE ALL THE MAIN 5 CHANNELS TO 800+ TOTALLY PATHETIC !!
TALK ABOUT KILLING WHAT WAS WORKING FINE !
I KNOW WE SHALL MOVE EVERYTHING AND MAKE IT MORE CONFUSING ??

Terrible company, service gets worse week by week, wrong listings, wrong genre, no customer service, now listing dozens of radio programmes, hard to find how to view a radio show. We were promised the earth when we were forced to have free view, but NO one takes or is responsible. If they have a licence to operate this service remove it and give it to someone who cares about the service.

Can't be arsed . Bring back 4 channels. Apart from BBC . Crazy compy.

Useless guide if you want to know what’s on your Freeview TV. Half channels missing. Waste of time

Freeview tv another scammer
Since television gone digital it is the worse every freeview is now blanking or blocking channels stop you viewing ex: Great Movies. Great Romance Mix these television company need a good boot up there backside DIGITAL TV is not working in United kingdom put us back to Analogue Tv

I have reviewed this before but as I only have freeview I feel compelled to do so again: it has noticeably worsened in the last 12 to 6 months or so. There are now perhaps only a handful of programmes worth watching in an entire week - some days are not worth bothering with at all . So much so that I now consider it CRIMINAL FRAUD to expect anyone to pay the exorbitant licence fee to watch freeview. Persons with a penchant for absolute rubbish : war propaganda, sport, limp quizzes, "celebrity" this that and the other, USA this that and every other piece of American garbage, NFL etc, next top model blah blah blah it would be possible to cram the bandwidth with - shows requiring nothing more than executive mogadon for the masses, those with a mental age of a child of 6 years or less - might be satisfied. Who is choosing to broadcast this crap - the BBC was given taxpayers' money, as I understand it, to set up freeview - and clearly it has FAILED. As for Channels 4 and 5 ~ complete Reginald Molehusband BS... channel bore is what the SUN called 4 when it launched - expect they're well satisfied now though.

Judge Judy programmes on catchup start from the beginning after the breaks.

I am actually happy with Freeview after just watching TV through my communal aerial which was missing SO many TV channels

I am in my 60's and home a lot especially in the winter and the CHOICE on Freeview is so amazing compared to what I had

I think I will possibly miss SOME of the old channels I had as I have not found them on Freeview as YET ( too busy watching a film right now lol ) and have not scrolled any further yet but I could not get 'Great Movies' on my aerial alone which is the channel I so wanted , so that is a bonus for me now , BUT I was NOT expecting adverts and 'pauses' with a timer going down which is a pain as I did not get them when watching channels through my aerial but never mind am still VERY HAPPY with Freeview as the picture is super clear , seems reliable and I am shocked at how many channels I get!!

The cold winter months won't be so dreary now , but exciting , as I am literally spoilt for choice now!! :-) :-)

Thank you Freeview , so happy to be free of subscriptions I cannot afford and a useless communal aerial which is not maintained by my landlord!!

Welcome to the digital world for me for my old NON Smart TV at last!!! :-) xx

Very poor service by Freeview.
Iv never seen so many useless mind numbing adverts every 10minutes. Doesn't make me want buy products just turn over or off.
The content of films tv shows etc is just the same every week. It's a very boring service......

What wrong with freeview is it needs a wide update on movies ,series and programmes the same things are always bieng put on. Its half term for the children halloween and there is nothing on why is it every holiday you only put on programmes and movies for kids on the weekend what about the week days they are off school. Its poor you dont cater to the puvlic well enough. Especially the children its not all the time they want to watch cartoon channels all day. Not good at all. There thousands of movies old and new out there and they are hardly put on its sad !

Freeview TV content is really poor quality. Adverts are relentless and when you finally find something worth watching you get bombarded with long boring adverts that go on forever. It's crap¡¡

In between every 8 - 12 minutes there are adverts which you might as well change channel. Most channels are so interesting that you might as well be blind drunk. Only way to watch is to watch 2 channels at the same time that don't coincide with the wokist predominantly black people advertising.
Overall utter rubbish BUT better than paying lots for expensive WiFi.

For sometime now I get a 'security error' message when the program switches to commercials. This happens on all streamers except iplayer with 5 being the worst as it it then switches to restart the episode and this can happen several times in the same commercial break. This is happening on my Toshiba tv.