Help needed for TV Room

[Red Leader]

Afternoon,
We have a playroom and as the kids are older I want to change it to more of a Den. It is only 10ftx10ft and I would like to make it more of a TV room.

At present we have Sky Cables that run in but no aerial and so I appreciate that any TV I put in at the moment will have to use the old sky box as a "Freeview Box". The kids have an Xbox One S and so that sorts the gaming and 4k/HD bluray.

This will be a smart TV and so I assume everything else will be covered by the IPlayer etc.

Of course I am missing out on the Freeview as I don't have an aerial but should I consider anything else?

[FlossyThePig]

Please don't confuse Freesat and Freeview. (I pinched the following from another site)

Freeview
Received via an aerial.
https://www.freeview.co.uk

Freesat
Received via a satellite dish (an old Sky one will work, it's the same satellite)
http://www.freesat.co.uk

Free Sat from Sky
Sky's almost secret free service that allows you to continue using an old Sky receiver to receive Free to View channels. It's not quite free, as they charge a one off fee for a viewing card.
http://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home

[Steve Campbell]

When I moved into my house 10 years ago, the "plumbed into the walls" aerials had a problem which I couldn't resolve and I couldn't "pull through" or feed the coax aerials through the cavities. Resolution was to run a new coaxial from loft splitter through wall and down outside of house into room. This will depend on where the room is and whether you can run the cable relatively inconspicuously on the outside of the house but it's easy to do if you want an aerial in the room ( I just had to buy a long drill bit !).

You might want to think about wiring internet into the TV v relying on wifi (via a power adaptor if you don't have an internet socket in the room).

Edited by Steve Campbell on Thursday 11th January 12:31