Freeview. What is it good for?!

To borrow a phrase from Edwin Starr, Freeview. What is it good for?! Absofuckinlutely Nothing!

Freeview, promotes itself as "free TV land".

Well, I guess that's true, if...

If you like your TV shows' video to stutter and stop several times per minute.

If you like your TV shows' video to be peppered with out of synch picture lines.

If you like your TV shows' audio to lose almost half of the total number of words in a given show.

If you like your TV shows' audio to lose at least a third of sentences/paragraphs per show.

If you like your TV shows to be only those from the BBC.

For it's BBC shows/channels which are almost exclusively unfettered by the above problems. Oh, and shopping channels are also virtually untouched by the problems.

I've had this bloody freeview box for some six months and had the aerial adjusted several times. I can't get a new one because I live in a block of flats and the landlord isn't going to install a new aerial, and I don't blame him.

If this is any indication of what digital TV (now mandated by the government) is going to be like (and I have no reason to believe it won't be, based on the history of cockups by this and other governments) I'll pass. I'll keep my current TV and VCR and just watch the hundreds of VCRs I own.

Freeview my arse.