How to get good reception for tv
How to get good reception for tv
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geek84

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610 posts

102 months

Tuesday 29th December 2020
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Good morning folks
I'm in the process of buying a new TV (following the suggestions from you helpful folks on my other thread) In order to get a satisfactory quality of picture should I get an internal ariel or get someone to connect it to the ariel on my roof?
By the way I already have a TV in my other room which is connected to the ariel outside
Thank you

Radec

5,029 posts

63 months

Tuesday 29th December 2020
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What's the reception like on the bedroom TV?
If the signal is good you can buy a ariel splitter for about a fiver, then get some extra ariel cable and take the feed from the roof and split it 2 ways, one to the bedroom and another to the new TV.
Or buy another outdoor ariel and attach it in the loft if you have one then take the cable to your new TV, saves you having 2 ariels on the outside of your house.

There are also ariel amplifiers that you can buy that can boost signals and split the feed at the same time.

Mr Pointy

12,571 posts

175 months

Tuesday 29th December 2020
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It depends on which transmitter you want to pick up & how far away you are. If your existing roof aerial is in good shape & you have plenty of signal you could use a passive splitter or you could use an splitting amplifier. If by an internal aerial you meen one in the same room as the TV then it's rare that they work unless you are very close to the transmitter.