1702 Freeview TV italia

[QUOTE=elainecraig]We recently bought a freeviewbox in Italy, and tried and tried couldnt get it to work! We thought we saw in a supermarket a sign explaining that you now needed a card inserted to make it work? Anyone had any experience of this? Any help appreciated, we are in Puglia. :([/QUOTE]

I am not sure if it will work in an Italian box but you can get a freeview card from Sky for £20, you are not supposed to use them abroad but I have one and it works well. What type of box is it? Is it Sky compatible. You will need an address in England.

[QUOTE=valgee]I am not sure if it will work in an Italian box but you can get a freeview card from Sky for £20, you are not supposed to use them abroad but I have one and it works well. What type of box is it? Is it Sky compatible. You will need an address in England.[/QUOTE]

Valgee, you have confused me...I thought freeview (digibox) was a terrestial service so how are you receiving UK transmission in Italy? Presumably with a dish - what channels do you get?

NO IDEA chuck, when we set up our English one we had to dedicate a channel which it is not giving us an option to do. We thought the law might have changed and you need to pay for some italiano card to acccess the channels. We dont have Sky digital (in England), our reception is pants at home and we are not allowed to attach anything to the outside of the building so no satellite channel, shame really :confused:

[QUOTE=elainecraig]NO IDEA chuck, when we set up our English one we had to dedicate a channel which it is not giving us an option to do. We thought the law might have changed and you need to pay for some italiano card to acccess the channels. We dont have Sky digital (in England), our reception is pants at home and we are not allowed to attach anything to the outside of the building so no satellite channel, shame really :confused:[/QUOTE]

I am confused again - when you say home - is that England or Italy? If Italy and you are living in an appartment block [B]and[/B] you can convince a neighbour to sign up to Sky as well as yourself then SKY were offering to fit a dish on the roof FOC. My problem wasn't convincing a neighbour but convincing my "significant other" I don't know about Italian digibox but perhaps you do need to get a card - don't they know at the supermarket? Our aeriel is so old that it would not support digital transmission so I have never enquired.

Sorry hun I bought the italian digibox in Italy, so I suppose we could ask at the supermarket next time we go there.

We also have one (that works) in England, that needs no card.

Sorry for the confusion, must be the shock of the freak hot weather in London.

Elaine :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=elainecraig]Sorry hun I bought the italian digibox in Italy, so I suppose we could ask at the supermarket next time we go there.

We also have one (that works) in England, that needs no card.

Sorry for the confusion, must be the shock of the freak hot weather in London.

Elaine :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

The problem with the dish - GB or I ? If latter you may be allowed to put one on roof - not visible from street level and as advised above Sky may do this at no/low cost if there is more than 1 new subscriber..

[QUOTE=sdoj]Valgee, you have confused me...I thought freeview (digibox) was a terrestial service so how are you receiving UK transmission in Italy? Presumably with a dish - what channels do you get?[/QUOTE]

Sorry, what I meant was a freestat (or freesat) box and card, I assume that is what they were talking about as they mentioned needing a card. It is the same as freeview only you need a box and a card and you get it via Satellite. Hope you know what I mean, not very good at explaining things. Anyway, I get BBC1 and 2, ITV 1 and 2, channel 4 and 5 plus a few other ones. I lose some of the main ones at certain times but I always get channels 4 and 5 and usually BBC 1.

I have seen the Italian boxes but I didn't get one as I wasn't sure if the freesat card would work in them.

Ciao

My free digibox does not need a card. The card is only for things like watching sports where youc an buy a special card with a certain number of games on it or something like that (can you tell I am not a sports fan) Anyway, back to your problem, many areas still do not receive digital channels. It is required that they be available by January 2006 but I only get 25 channels while friends 15 minutes away get 68 and other friends 15 minutes away in the other direction get 9. You also may just have a problem with your antenna since you mentioned you can't see regular TV very well either.

The aerial is working well we get good regular tv reception, but I have heard that Puglia does have bad coverage so perhaps digital tv is not yet broadcast in the area, we need some technical chaps to help us girlies fix it. We'll try the Europhonics shops we bought it from and I'll let you chaps and chapessess know what happens in Jan. Thats going to be interesting with my poor italian I'll brush on on ntechnical terms like reception, channel and plug-in. :p

You can check out the reception of your area on two sites. One is for the Mediaset Channels [url]http://www.mediasetonline.com/digitaleterrestre/ricerca.html[/url] and one is for the RAI channels [url]http://www.rai.it/raiway/frequenze[/url]

This site may be of help if you can read Italian or use an online translator! Analogue TV is being turned off in Italy Jan 2006 so good choice getting a D/box so soon. The correct ariel is req'd to get all the channels just like the UK.

[url]http://www.dgtvi.it/stat/DGTVi/Page1.html[/url]
[url]http://world.altavista.com/[/url]

Great sites thanks. Very informative.