Cost of digital aerial?

donny-gal

But on the MoneySaving front, if you dont feel up to installing an aerial yourself, ring round a few and look for smaller ones (one man bands even), it may not be a digital aerial you need, but just a updated one, or even putting yours back in place as it has moved with the weather if in place for a few years. Larger aerial firms seem to think of a number and double or treble it.

espresso

donny-gal wrote:

it may not be a digital aerial you need, but just a updated one,

Actually there is no such thing as a 'digital' aerial, so don't fall for that one!

donny-gal

espresso wrote:

Actually there is no such thing as a 'digital' aerial, so don't fall for that one!

Exactly expresso, I am not techie enough to say that but that is what I was meaning, it sounded oot to me!:rotfl:

Moneymaker

An installer whom I know personally is a real spiv and I noticed he'd advertised in the local paper:
"Digital aerials fitted for Freeview.
Standard fitting £95
Deluxe fitting £125
Super-Deluxe £145"

I asked him "what's the difference between Standard and Super-Deluxe?" (knowing full well what the answer would be).

"Fifty quid", he replied. (I was right).

"And how many customers have gone for the Super-Deluxe?"

"All of 'em", he replied. "There's one born every minute and if they want to pay me top whack, that's their choice".

trace_567

Might be worth noting that often freeview boxes will work on an ordinary anolog aerial. I have a freeview box working on the anolog ariel for my block of flats. So its a shared aerial and all is fine. Yes you get the occasional blips where it freezes for a second, or the image goes blocky. But according to my dad who has a digital aerial and freeview this apparently stills happens on his. So if you just want the aerial for using freeview you might well get away without replacing your existing one.