Free view reception

sebastianj

Apologies, I know it must have been asked before. I have a dvd recorder with free view, I guess I need to connect an aerial to it. I have the normal old aerial, will it do? someone said I need a digital aerial, what is that?

I have just had cable and sky disconnected saving £35 a month :j

kind regards
seb

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

sebastianj wrote: »

I have the normal old aerial, will it do? someone said I need a digital aerial, what is that?

The only way to find out is to plug up to your old aerial. It may well be that it's not good enough to receive Freeview, so you might have to buy a new one.

sebastianj

Thanks a lot both of you,
Loaner, I do get some channels with the sky box but are these the same channels you get with free view or some additional ones, I know ch5 is not on sky Living and many others.
rgd
seb

BillScarab

Juts try it with the old Aerial. We recently bought a new TV with Freeview and our 20 year old aerial gets a great signal, not that much use as we have cable but it's nice to know we have a fallback if we ever have problems.

Inactive

sebastianj wrote: »

Thanks a lot both of you,
Loaner, I do get some channels with the sky box but are these the same channels you get with free view or some additional ones, I know ch5 is not on sky Living and many others.
rgd
seb

The free channels that you get with Sky vary to those that you get with Freeview.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

You won't get Living on Freeview either.

BillScarab

Forgot to say if you have a Sky dish you could always look into getting Freesat. Panasonic even make TVs with built in receivers now.

November_Dusk

A normal aerial should do the job... my Mom uses just an old normal outside aerial. Also I've read somewhere that when the digital switch-over fully happens then the signal will be stronger anyway.

sebastianj

Many thanks every one, I have run a cable from the roof aerial to the box and it works, thanks every one.
Is there a point in getting Sky freesat, more channels? Is it subscription based? Currently I dont even get BBC 1 with the sky box, but do get some channels.
rgd
seb

Fifer

sebastianj wrote: »

Many thanks every one, I have run a cable from the roof aerial to the box and it works, thanks every one.
Is there a point in getting Sky freesat, more channels? Is it subscription based? Currently I dont even get BBC 1 with the sky box, but do get some channels.
rgd
seb

We watch Freeview most of the time, but find the free Sky channels useful when we want to opt out of a regional opt-out (usually to avoid football or River City).

BillScarab

You have two choices of freesat. The free stuff from Sky or the new FreeSat service which requires a different digibox but can use a Sky dish. the new service gives you free HD content if you have a HD TV.

http://www.freesat.co.uk/