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Has Anyone Ever Heard Of Somethng Called...............
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........TV Brite? I was reading about this and my first impresion was that it is just another version of FreeView. But they say not. i believe the dragons on Dragons Den were scrambling to get the share of it. Have you got one?
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Oh no! Not again!
We've had countless posts like yours over the past decade or so. The product name keeps changing but, when you examine it, it's the same ruddy thing every time!
In many parts of the USA it's the norm to have cable TV or satellite TV, rather than to receive channels from transmitters beaming out radio waves (as is the norm in the UK). So a US manufacturer has produced an indoor aerial with an amplifier built into it and has then started marketing it as a 'wonder product' which can receive the US equivalent of Freeview, telling gullible Americans that purchasing one of those aerials will enable them to cancel their cable and/or satellite subscriptions and still be able to watch many prime channels.
The manufacturer (or, more usually, a franchised distributor) then tries to expand their sales base by offering the same product in the UK, again with the promise that people can ditch their satellite or cable subscriptions. (i.e. what they're actually saying is "You don't need Sky or Virgin Media to watch BBC channels, or ITV or Dave, Drama, etc. You can just watch Freeview instead by using one of our super-duper aerials).
The product CAN'T receive any TV channels that a normal Freeview aerial can. Given that the Freeview signal isn't strong enough for indoor reception in many parts of the country, it might well NOT pick up any channels at all!.
AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!
(Don't believe me? Check out the TrustPilot reviews! https:/
We've had countless posts like yours over the past decade or so. The product name keeps changing but, when you examine it, it's the same ruddy thing every time!
In many parts of the USA it's the norm to have cable TV or satellite TV, rather than to receive channels from transmitters beaming out radio waves (as is the norm in the UK). So a US manufacturer has produced an indoor aerial with an amplifier built into it and has then started marketing it as a 'wonder product' which can receive the US equivalent of Freeview, telling gullible Americans that purchasing one of those aerials will enable them to cancel their cable and/or satellite subscriptions and still be able to watch many prime channels.
The manufacturer (or, more usually, a franchised distributor) then tries to expand their sales base by offering the same product in the UK, again with the promise that people can ditch their satellite or cable subscriptions. (i.e. what they're actually saying is "You don't need Sky or Virgin Media to watch BBC channels, or ITV or Dave, Drama, etc. You can just watch Freeview instead by using one of our super-duper aerials).
The product CAN'T receive any TV channels that a normal Freeview aerial can. Given that the Freeview signal isn't strong enough for indoor reception in many parts of the country, it might well NOT pick up any channels at all!.
AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!
(Don't believe me? Check out the TrustPilot reviews! https:/
It's not the first time the Dragons have been fooled either. This is an identical product:
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with the same level of Trust Pilot reviews:
https:/
Take a look at what the TVBrite antenna looks like on their website:
https:/
Compare that with the TVFix product that Melv16 was asking about on AB last December:
https:/
I can no longer find any images of the JeeStream product that Ducksie was asking about in June of 2017 but I can assure you that it was identical.
I've seen similar products (or, rather, identical products but with different names) advertised in the 'red top' newspapers for at least a decade or so. (Given that I only read those newspapers if there happens to be a copy left on a train or, say, available to read in a café, those ads must be appearing quite frequently).
They're al totally worthless, yet vast numbers of people keep falling for the same scam!
https:/
with the same level of Trust Pilot reviews:
https:/
Take a look at what the TVBrite antenna looks like on their website:
https:/
Compare that with the TVFix product that Melv16 was asking about on AB last December:
https:/
I can no longer find any images of the JeeStream product that Ducksie was asking about in June of 2017 but I can assure you that it was identical.
I've seen similar products (or, rather, identical products but with different names) advertised in the 'red top' newspapers for at least a decade or so. (Given that I only read those newspapers if there happens to be a copy left on a train or, say, available to read in a café, those ads must be appearing quite frequently).
They're al totally worthless, yet vast numbers of people keep falling for the same scam!
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