Freeview without TV Aerial

[davgar]

Any wife friendly ways of getting regular tv without aerial.

[anonymous-user]

Nowtv box and watch the catch up
services?

Chromecast and cast from a phone?

[VEX]

You need some sort of cabled connection, Cable TV, Satellite Dish or Aerial.

So not live, legally, no.

Catchup yes. as above and other streamers have NowTV available on them too.

V.

[davgar]

I have a cat5 cable running from behind tv to loft.
is there a way of utlising this

[ooo000ooo]

use it to pull a coax through to the loft?

[davgar]

ooo000ooo said:

use it to pull a coax through to the loft?

unfortunately not possible.
thinking is there a way of plugging in freeview box in loft then sending picture over cat5??

[QuartzDad]

https://www.netshop.co.uk/products/tvfmrf-via-cat5...

No idea if it works, just Googled.

[anonymous-user]

You could run an hdmi extender over the cat5 assuming your freeview box has an hdmi output and tv has hdmi in.

Not sure how the remote control will work though.

[red997]

Freeview without an aerial... you do know its a terrestrial broadcast from TV transmitters ?!

Why not just use a lot aerial (bigger than the ones on the outside of your neighbours house (make sure it the right 'group' and pointing towards the transmitter.)) and use the CAT 5 to pull through some RF coax ?

[king arthur]

TVPlayer app.

[Hayek]

davgar said:

ooo000ooo said:

use it to pull a coax through to the loft?

unfortunately not possible.
thinking is there a way of plugging in freeview box in loft then sending picture over cat5??

You could get an HDHomeRun in the loft which will make your freeview channels available over the network/cat5. I have one and watch live TV using the 'Channels' app on an Apple TV.

[hyphen]

How about Freeview Play? Isn't that delivered through the internet connection.

[davgar]

thanks will do more reading

[gareth_r]

hyphen said:

How about Freeview Play? Isn't that delivered through the internet connection?

No, needs an aerial. The internet connection is used for catch up apps, searching, etc.



EDIT
One of these in the loft? https://www.vboxcomm.com/uk-freeview-and-freesat.h...

Edited by gareth_r on Sunday 11th February 02:51

[bristolracer]

king arthur said:

TVPlayer app.

This ^^^
Works on Roku, fire stick

[gareth_r]

bristolracer said:

king arthur said:

TVPlayer app.

This ^^^
Works on Roku, fire stick

But check the Freeview channels that are available, and the picture quality.