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Getting a indoor tv aerial

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  • Charlton_King
    Charlton_King Posts: 2,071 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    The 'portable tv aerial problem' is something coming fast over the horizon and Government ministers have only just realised what a time bomb they have waiting to explode here.

    There are countless millions of CRT portables currently sitting happily on kitchen worktops, bedside tables etc in homes throughout the country which are suddenly going to fail when the signal is switched off. They quite likely outnumber the 'main tv'.

    It'll be no good buying a digibox because there won't be an aerial socket to use and the current generation of indoor aerials are absolute pants.

    This issue simply has not been addressed to the best of my knowledge.

    Chris Nowak is right - I have tried every which way BUT connecting my portable to a roof HG antenna and the results are dreadful. The industry has got egg on its face big time with this problem. I can see no solution to 'the millions-of-kitchen/bedroom-portables-analogue-switch-off' problem.
  • rapido
    rapido Posts: 392 Forumite
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  • ss4
    ss4 Posts: 85 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Inactive wrote: »
    You would need to buy a signal strength meter, unless your Freeview Receiver has signal stregth meters built in.

    I have just found the signal strength meter on my tv, I get a 8/10 for signal strength and 10/10 for signal quality
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    ss4 wrote: »
    I have just found the signal strength meter on my tv, I get a 8/10 for signal strength and 10/10 for signal quality

    Great result.. ;)
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