FreeviewHD is giving away boxes on Twitter

For those who’ve missed it, Freeview HD is running a competition on twitter at the moment. It’s running until the 2nd of September, and the winners will be announced next Friday (3rd September). There will be five winners (one a day), each of whom will receive a Freeview HD box – though not one I’ve reviewed, so I can’t tell you how good it is; it’s a bargain basement model, though.

Full details are on this page. Essentially, you need to follow FreeviewHD on Twitter and retweet a particular message to your followers. I won’t quote the message here, because I never shop at the supermarket concerned, and I’m not about to give them publicity on my blog.

4TV postscript

Pretty much as I predicted, Beko – the company that’s now owner of the Digifusion name – is not going to produce a firmware update to make the old PVRs use the standard Freeview EPG.

Some owners on Digital Spy are reporting that Beko is offering £70 to owners of some models of PVR, in exchange for the old units, as a gesture of goodwill. The offer depends on the serial number of your unit, and essentially only applies to those sold after Beko acquired the assets of Digifusion.

The Beko contact page is here.

If you want to recap the whole tale, this is a good place to start.