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Freely TVs
http://www.freely.co.uk/how-freely-works
A medium-sized Hisense TV at a discounted price. Maybe customers would need a larger screen. They must also pay the TV Licence at £180 per year and Broadband and phone line rental at £30 to £40 a month, or even more! A TV aerial installation could cost £200. Freeview set-top boxes for less than £20 on eBay. I prefer my TV aerial and a Netgem Netbox for Freeview, and the 100+ Internet TV channels. I’d need a similar 43″ 4K TV that may cost between £200 and £300 more.
£350 for a 6-year warranty coverage on the 43″ Freely and £395 for the 50″ TV. About £80 more than eBay, offering us a 20% voucher code. The stands for these models are not as stable as expensive TVs, which have a much longer support base. Better quality TV, but very expensive.
https://pages.ebay.co.uk/coupons/2026/1a5fb/
15% OFF with FAB15 code for selected selleitems. Offer ends on the 22nd of May 2026. Usual terms eg minimum spend £10 and maximum discount £75.
The internet Movie Database has lots of film details including new films for 2026 and the Supergirl search showed an image gallery. The Loadify (bear pic) app showed a few images and their URLs, too
A lot of films are available using Internet devices and apps. I couldn’t understand the audio for a film so I checked the film title on google and then on this UK website:
https://www.filmaffinity.com/uk/main.html
Many films are listed here:
http://www.imdb.com and each has a title number, too.
Update, feedback for eBay buyers:
Best picture quality direct to HDMI on TV. I had to use a USB power cable and a USB mouse. Hard to save website images using menus, eg share to various file manager apps. Videos use lots of storage. I couldn’t move videos or images to my USB drive. YouTube uses browser apps, eg m.youtube. I connect the HDMI output to a HDMI to scart adapter, then to a DVD Recorder to record the content in XP quality up to 12 hours. Buy and try other Android apps to save videos and images to separate USBs.
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Further info:
Google Play Store Tools apps included the YouTube Guru Dr Sqiffy’s app.
I chose to use the Sqiffix app to manage the apps and to Force Stop on some apps to reduce usage and free memory. We can delete some cache, too.
I chose to uninstall several of the TV channel apps to reclaim the storage because videos that can get downloaded to the Download folder take up so much storage space. I can’t transfer these video or image files to a connected USB drive such as the Kingston Integral 32GB drive so far… I had to edit some downloads by the backspace delete action to get to the jpg name and then save the jpg that way. Duplicates were deleted later after these tests.
Basically, the device doesn’t have sufficient Menu options and nor do the web browser apps. SHARE seems the only download to whatever File Manager apps we install before trying what we can and then using the SHARE workaround instead of long click on OK to get Save or Save As. These options don’t exist.
I’ve used several Internet devices and this device acts nothing like they do. There is no emulated external_storage folder to switch files to. There is no USB drive listed either.
Limited main drive storage gets used up if we install several apps. We don’t need these all the time, so only install and uninstall for the times that we do. The Squiffix app is extremely useful to access the permissions info. Some apps want microphone audio access and camera access and other apps access. The percentage rating shows these as potential security risks so I uninstalled a few web browser apps I had tested. (It helps to delete their cached data first.)
So all in all, some Internet devices require extreme measures to get any real user-friendly results. YouTube reviews don’t always mention enough about saving videos and images or how to transfer these to separate SD cards or USB drives. So buyers have no idea which devices will help and which require gurus to get useful actions to complete.
The second Morrisons order only qualified for the £12 discount once I ordered over £70. So now I save £25 on those orders and £12 on the voucher. The late-night delivery is £1.50. I’m testing new items as well.
FAB15 is the 15% discount for items sold by selected sellers. Minimum order £10 and maximum discount £75.
This isn’t the best 20% off but it could still be helpful. The code offer ends on the 22nd of May 2026.
PERK5OFF is a single offer for LOCAL items. This ends on the 31st of December 2026. See Terms and Conditions here:
https://pages.ebay.co.uk/coupons/2026/p5kerffo/
I bought 600 new DVD-R single use ACU-DISC discs instead of the Maxell DVD-R discs. I saved by not spending over £60 more for these brand new ACU-DISC 16x discs.
I’m going to make a second Morrisons shopping order using my £12 off voucher code for a £60 order. I’ve got 2 more times after this to use that voucher code.
http://www.groceries.morrisons.com
I got an Ocado leaflet offering discounts but it wouldn’t let me use their code as I had ordered from the same address before.
http://www.ocado.com for new customer leaflet discounts.
http://www.groceries.morrisons.com
£24 saved plus £12 off using 2nd shop discount.
3rd and 4th shop discount will use the same code for orders over £60.
The Ocado supermarket offers turn up on the Internet or through our front door letterboxes.If I follow this latest offer, I make myself subscribe as a new customer and use the 5 voucher codes for 15% up to 30% discounts and a maximum of £80 saved but a single person living alone may not always require over £300 of shopping orders. Maybe just the first 2 orders are enough for 30% then down to 25% off.
Maybe your voucher codes are different to mine…
Some radio receivers will update like the Sky+ HD set-top boxes. The Smart TV satellite TV circle connector can tune in TV and Radio channels or stations and yet there are extra autotuning or manual retuning options later. We update when there are new channels or withdrawn channels.
H96Max updates:
The use of a power plug for the USB cable meant extra expense. Same again when the remote control didn’t work later on. I used the USB mouse I had bought for my computer. It has the scroll button and left and right buttons. It helped. Eventually I got back to the HOME screen and clicked the top right Settings image. I clicked for Bluetooth devices then the remote and repeated the remote keys left and right held for a few seconds. After repeating this, the remote started working again.
The Play Store has loads of apps to install, but that doesn’t always work, understood? However, if that works later on, then I can at least try with the useful app names I found to see if they install correctly or not.
As for trying to save an Internet website image, well, that’s just pot luck even when the image is displayed on a separate URL. Chrome seemed the only web browser to allow it by displaying a download image at the top of the screen. If not, then no deal.
I got access to the HOME screen where the YouTube app had been displayed after I selected that option. Now the YouTube videos could be seen. I have uploaded some Superhero poem notebooklm videos recently so I could prove the YouTube search worked for my videos.
Overall verdict is 50-50% useful and 50-50% troublesome setups, installations and hard to get image downloads. Some video websites have download access that will work. The File Manager apps then offer different video players if we install these. Playbacks work or they don’t so we must install several video players to test each long or short video.
Search denis martindale for various Poemhunter poem reviews.
Search H96Max 313 model with white remote and white TV stick.
http://www.ebay.co.uk for usb power plugs such as those that work for the Amazon Firestick device.
http://www.ebay.co.uk for usb left and right and scroll computer mouse items with the red light display.
http://www.ebay.co.uk for the Kingston Integral 32GB USB 2 flash drives.Some H96Max review are all smiles while others are clearly rejecting the device because of what it won’t do as well as other android devices with extra accessories such as the power plug for the USB actions to work properly.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/e/coupon-offers/s-s-shop-all
Different discounts for different sellers so check what’s helps you.
If we could only find a good movie to watch and not pay a penny extra, then that’s good enough for me:
https://agoodmovietowatch.com/
People review the top films or moooovies. The Internet Movie Database provides its ratings, such as 7 out of 10 and higher. Rotten Tomatoes is yet another film review service. The recommendations are uploaded to the website linked above. So, it’s worth bookmarking for special categories that can be useful in our search results.
http://www.imdb.com and http://www.rottentomatoes.com and http://www.justwatch.com
http://www.sky.com and http://www.virginmedia.com can provide extra details and reviews. Check your set-top box for its film displays and any film trailers. Catch-up TV options also provide TV channels with their lists of movies and TV shows for the family or adults. Many Internet downloads are in SD quality. Some are in HD quality. Choose what you can, and remember that limited storage on a Sky+ or Sky Q set-top box may limit your options and necessitate the deletion of content later.I got a new Internet streaming device from eBay for £19. It wouldn’t let me use the remote control until I connected a separate power plug to activate the remote control keys. I used the Amazon Fire TV Stick power plug to get started. I used a separate USB cable to connect an external USB Kingston 32GB drive for downloads. The Google Play Store helped find a few dozen apps for web browsers, streaming TV channels, films and a few file managers. There are a few video players. Setting up the device meant a few extra hours of preferred HDMI quality settings and customising displays. The H96Max androidtv can be checked for its specifications. Use a computer to view YouTube video setup tutorials and positive and negative feedback comments. I discovered the H96Max didn’t view YouTube if we clicked the YouTube key on the remote.
http://www.ebay.co.uk and http://www.youtube.com and http://www.google.com
Don’t lose the manual or the packaging! Check for USB cable accessories for Android devices, such as Amazon Fire TV devices. Use the file managers to create new folders for images and for MP4 downloads.
When British Gas launches new fixed tariffs, we could switch to a short fix or a long fix. If we have a fixed tariff and then switch to a new fixed tariff, there are no exit fees. However, it is not exactly helpful in the current year of 2026. The April fix has been granted a discount after the Government removed its extra charges. The new tariffs may not include any discounts at all from July 2026. I’m one person in the home paying standing charges of up to £300. If I switch now, I will lose out on my existing costs and incur an additional £250 per year. That’s an extra £500 over the next 2 years. The bill is getting increased from less than £1200 to over £1400 per year. I’ve got to stay with my tariff until it ends and then accept what follows. Government Pension costs may increase by 4%, while energy costs are expected to rise by £250. So about half of the increased Pensions seem to pay for energy increases. The Winter Fuel discount may help if pensioners get this.
Is it any wonder that more customers now surf online for coupon codes, vouchers and seasonal offers? There are special offers for new customers on the Morrisons and Ocado websites. Those living alone must order over £60 to qualify for the maximum discount deals granted for 4 or more orders.
