> Yet every time I use my VCR, I wish I could physically put
> one of these £60 FreeView boxes inside it (in place of the tuner) and
> continue to use it as now, but with 30 digital channels instead of 5
> analogue ones.
>
Maybe sometime soon someone will see the light and start selling low-end
VCR's & 14 inch TV's with the Freeview adaptor built in. I imagine these
would be very popular. The price of Freeview adaptors is still falling (£60)
and the add-on cost is bound to be less (£45?) than the cost of a seperate
adaptor, so the prices could be very attractive.
What would be even better would be one of those 5 inch screen LCD TV's from
Maplin with a Freeview adaptor built in. This would be the first
multichannel flat screen portable TV, and given the tendency for Freeview to
work with "a piece of bent wire" would, in many locations, probably work
better than it does on analogue which, don't forget, was never designed to
be picked up on a telescopic rod antenna either, but that has never stopped
portable TV's from selling.