HD through normal aerial

[TvrJohn]

Current freeview box is on its last legs, can I get HD through a standard roof mounted aerial ?
TV is HD ready

Any PVR recommendations ?

[eybic]

I don't think you can, I think you need a dish for HD freeview.

[TheInternet]

eybic said:

I don't think you can, I think you need a dish for HD freeview.

Eybic is incorrect. Dish for Sky/Freesat, normal aerial for Freeview (including HD).

[Ranger 6]

TvrJohn said:

...Any PVR recommendations ?

Yes - I've got a Panasonic twin Freeview HD box with a DVD/Blu-Ray recorder built-in - an excellent piece of kit. It's been superceded now though so just have a scout round for one of the newer models, I think they come with a 1Tb drive.

[Marlin45]

Terrestrial HD or satellite?

Freeview HD can be received via your standard roof mounted antenna if you have a strong enough incoming signal. That's exactly what I do.

[eybic]

TheInternet said:

eybic said:

I don't think you can, I think you need a dish for HD freeview.

Eybic is incorrect. Dish for Sky/Freesat, normal aerial for Freeview (including HD).

I didn't know that, every day is a school day and all that.

[bristolracer]

You will need

An Aerial that works

Either a TV or PVR with a Freeview HD tuner in it (not just freeview or HD ready)
If using a pvr it must be connected and watched via an HDMI lead
You will also need to watch the HD channels which will be on channels 101 102 etc and not 1 2 etc

HD ready just means that your tv will display an HD picture it does not mean that the tuner will do the hd channels.

[FlossyThePig]

Current HD channels on FreeView on my set are BBC1 (101), BBC2 (102), ITV (103), Channel 4 (104) and recently added BBC3 (105) which is shared with CBBC (73). Some transmitters also include BBC4 (106), shared with CBeebies (74), BBC News (107) and Al Jazeera (108).

If your current aerial gives good quality signals for most of the BBC SD channels it should be OK for the HD channels.

Two colleagues at work have the Humax made YouView PVR (both via Talk Talk broadband TV deals). It has a lot of SmartTV features as well as catchup on BBC ITV Channel 4 and Channel 5. BT Vision also supply the same box.

[TvrJohn]

Thanks for your replies guys, know what to buy now

[telecat]

The HUMAX FOX HD-T2 is the Standard non youview offering. I have two and thery are very good indeed.