Digital television in Belgium

Just bought me a brand new Sony TV.
The thing has everything needed to watch Digital broadcast , HD video. etc
It even has build in Internet.
However here in Belgium, you still need a decoder and use the TV only as a big monitor screen, all functions go through that ancient digibox, even the remote control is only good to power on and off the TV. what a waste of money. I better bought a large computer monitor with a HDMI input, ....or not ?

How is it going in the rest of europe ?

Are you receiving using an aerial?

Probably best to go with satellite reception. If you get a big enough dish to receive from Astra 2D then you might be able to receive British services (including BBC HD) amongst others.

here in Italy, the thing is as you have described, but new TV has a deconder inside.
M.

Same here.

;D

Doesn't it work with VRT (national television)?
I thought they forced the distributors to broadcast their 2 channels without encryption.

Arno said:

Same here.

;D

Doesn't it work with VRT (national television)?
I thought they forced the distributors to broadcast their 2 channels without encryption.

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yes we have a few free channels. But it's a bit silly to go from one remote to another. We are 2010 .
And yes newer TV sets have a build in decoder, but like I said useless as long as we need to use a smart card.