Freeview TV - Analogue has gone off......
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Analogue TV signal has gone off in my area.
I already have Sky freeview downstairs on my main tv, but its the tv that i watch in bed that i miss the most.
I guess that there are two options:
1) Get Sky Freeview upstairs - Does this mean another dish, box, card etc? oh and another £150?
2) Get a TV with built in freeview as a seperate box isnt practical with the space i have.
Any help is appreciated.
I already have Sky freeview downstairs on my main tv, but its the tv that i watch in bed that i miss the most.
I guess that there are two options:
1) Get Sky Freeview upstairs - Does this mean another dish, box, card etc? oh and another £150?
2) Get a TV with built in freeview as a seperate box isnt practical with the space i have.
Any help is appreciated.
I've (literally) just slung up an aerial on the roof last night in a bid to reduce the number of boxes under the TV and ditch Virgin Media TV...
In my previous house, I went through a few Freeview boxes, as they we just s
te! Slow EPG/Menus etc, But the one built into our LG TV is fine...(Unfortunately the TV's a few years old now, so no HD).
TV's with built in Freeview Tuners should be coming down in price as people start to want Freeview HD instead, so you may be able to pick something up relatively cheap (if you go down the new TV route).
Not a Sky person, so I couldn't tell you anything you don't already know about extra outputs etc...
In my previous house, I went through a few Freeview boxes, as they we just s
te! Slow EPG/Menus etc, But the one built into our LG TV is fine...(Unfortunately the TV's a few years old now, so no HD).TV's with built in Freeview Tuners should be coming down in price as people start to want Freeview HD instead, so you may be able to pick something up relatively cheap (if you go down the new TV route).
Not a Sky person, so I couldn't tell you anything you don't already know about extra outputs etc...
You can get freeview boxes which are little more than a scart plug. They go straight into the scart on back of your TV and the normal aerial plugs into them, taking in very little space. They also come with a remote. I've seen them on www.ebuyer.com before but not sure if they still have them.
GreenDog said:
You can get freeview boxes which are little more than a scart plug. They go straight into the scart on back of your TV and the normal aerial plugs into them, taking in very little space. They also come with a remote. I've seen them on www.ebuyer.com before but not sure if they still have them.
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Cheapest solution no doubt... I forgot all about those... Not sure how good they are thought...
Ray Singh said:
Analogue TV signal has gone off in my area.
I already have Sky freeview downstairs on my main tv, but its the tv that i watch in bed that i miss the most.
I guess that there are two options:
1) Get Sky Freeview upstairs - Does this mean another dish, box, card etc? oh and another £150?
2) Get a TV with built in freeview as a seperate box isnt practical with the space i have.
Any help is appreciated.
Sky don't do Freeview! - They can provide the free satellite channels without subscription. Similar to Freesat. Uses a dish.I already have Sky freeview downstairs on my main tv, but its the tv that i watch in bed that i miss the most.
I guess that there are two options:
1) Get Sky Freeview upstairs - Does this mean another dish, box, card etc? oh and another £150?
2) Get a TV with built in freeview as a seperate box isnt practical with the space i have.
Any help is appreciated.
Freview comes through an aerial.
- Can get away with only one dish but may need the LNB replaced. You've probably got a single feed at the moment. A twin LNB will allow two cables coming out, one for each set (get a quad LNB with four outputs to give you the option of adding a hard disk PVR in the future). There are TVs with built in Freesat tuners (including HD).
- There are quite a lot of TVs with Freview tuners built in and there are some coming with Freeview HD as well. What sort of aerial did you use with analogue?
Or take coax from the RF2 output on the sky box up to the bedroom, and get one of the magic eye things to allow you to control it from upstairs. Means you have to watch the same prog up and down but would only cost about £20 all in.
In our old rented house, I disconnected the aerial inside the roof, and fed the sky signal back up the TV socket in the living room to the one in the bedroom, so no cable runs required either. The sockets hav to be unscreened ones for the magic eye to work though (This house I had to "unscreen" them with a soldering iron)
In our old rented house, I disconnected the aerial inside the roof, and fed the sky signal back up the TV socket in the living room to the one in the bedroom, so no cable runs required either. The sockets hav to be unscreened ones for the magic eye to work though (This house I had to "unscreen" them with a soldering iron)
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