Most channels, least price?

macman

If you are on Tacolneston then it's a main transmitter and you'll get all the Freeview channels with the right aerial.
If you are on a relay, then you can't do anything to get the other Freeview channels, your only non-subscription option would be Freesat instead.

Cate1976

Guessing that right aerial is one strong enough to pick up signal? If the previous ttenant of the house we move to had Sky, how much would it cost us to get set up with freesat? If we have to save for the box and use Freeview, what type of aerial d we need and how much are they?

macman

The right aerial will depend on the transmitter being targeted-your installer will advise.
I already gave you the costs for Freesat in post 6.

penrhyn

Hi OP, If you are intent on buying a Freeview PVR for the first time you might want to wait a little and buy one of the newer YouView boxes.

http://www.johnlewis.com/231674495/Product.aspx

Cate1976

Thanks for that. If the house we move to has a dish, could we connect our existing box to it and get the free channels? Box is a Skydigibox Panasonic DV3 8 years old. For the first week we're in Norfolk, we'll be living with my parents. going to new house each day to get unpacking done. Sorting out tv will be done on the day that we'll be having our first night in the house.

macman

Yes you can, any Sky box will work to give you the FTA channels..

Cate1976

Thanks macman and penrhyn.

Best scenario would be that house has sky dish left from previous tenants and tv points in the bedrooms (current house doesn't). That would enable us to connect our exisiting box to sky dish and have a tv in our room but I know this would only give us freeview. I would then save to get the youview box hoping that they come in price or for other companies to start doing them.

If house doesn't have a sky dish or LL doesn't allow one then we'll just have to put up with freeview until we can save to get youview. Only thing with Youview is you need an ethernet cable so if there's not a phone point in the lounge then I'm going to need a long cable to reach the socket on the wall (current house only has one phone point in the hallway, was so glad to get wireless 4 years ago for the internet).

penrhyn

If your YouView box( or any other device wanting an Ethernet connection) is some distance from your modem you can use a pair of Powerline Homeplugs. If you were to buy one get the retailer to through a pair in.

macman

Cate1976 wrote: »

Thanks macman and penrhyn.

Best scenario would be that house has sky dish left from previous tenants and tv points in the bedrooms (current house doesn't). That would enable us to connect our exisiting box to sky dish and have a tv in our room but I know this would only give us freeview. I would then save to get the youview box hoping that they come in price or for other companies to start doing them.

If house doesn't have a sky dish or LL doesn't allow one then we'll just have to put up with freeview until we can save to get youview. Only thing with Youview is you need an ethernet cable so if there's not a phone point in the lounge then I'm going to need a long cable to reach the socket on the wall (current house only has one phone point in the hallway, was so glad to get wireless 4 years ago for the internet).

No it wouldn't. Freeview is a terrestial service via an aerial-you can't get it via a satellite dish. What you would get would be Freesat From Sky-a different platform.

Cate1976

penrhyn: Thanks, I'd forgotten about those plug in things.

macman: I know that freeview works off terrestial aerial. If there's a sky dish on the house, we'll connect lounge tv to that. If the bedrooms have aerial sockets we'll have a tv in our room but I know we'll only be able to get freeview.

If previous tenants have had sky multiroom, would we be able to connect lounge and bedroom tv's and be watching different programs at the same time?