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If its Live TV via an aerial then its surely not Freely, so this seems to be a bit of a con.
Freely is a hybrid system with some channels available exclusively via an aerial, others available as streamed DVB with some channels available via both methods. Freely has its own EPG with different channel numbers to Freeview. It's not a con but it is extremely confusing.
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Freely is a hybrid system with some channels available exclusively via an aerial, others available as streamed DVB with some channels available via both methods. Freely has its own EPG with different channel numbers to Freeview. It's not a con but it is extremely confusing.
I wouldn’t have thought so. Most people just switch on the TV and select their channel from the EPG. They don’t care how they receive them.
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I wouldn’t have thought so. Most people just switch on the TV and select their channel from the EPG. They don’t care how they receive them.
They might do for sport, if streamed 'live' action is way behind freeview coverage.
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I wouldn’t have thought so. Most people just switch on the TV and select their channel from the EPG. They don’t care how they receive them.
Except that channel selection is not the part that is confusing. The confusion is that Freely via an aerial isn't the same as Freeview. It does confuse people that broadcast DTT is now carried on 2 different platforms which don't share channel numbers if they expect DTT to have a single, uniform, EPG. I suppose though that channel selection could be confusing to viewers if they have Freely in one room and Freeview in another. Not to mention the possibility of even more diverse channel numbers if they own a third tv which has Freeview Play with CLM.

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They might do for sport, if streamed 'live' action is way behind freeview coverage.
Possibly something they are trying to mitigate by using a variant of DVB for streamed Freely. Even Freeview has encoding / decoding delay. The challenge is to match them. In the end it will come down to how powerful the processors are in the TV. With manufacturers cutting costs (e.g. Sony TVs now being manufactured by TCL) it probably isn't something that will happen soon.
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