Freeview TV in Bedroom

Pimpmyride

Hi Everyone,

Firstly, apologies for my stupidness- if theres one thing I know NOTHING about its Tv/aerial, digital signal shenanigans! But then I guess thats why I'm asking for advice here...!:o

I have a built-in-freeview TV in my bedroom at the moment, but I have no aerial socket in that room so I cant watch any TV (had the digital switchover thing in my area about a year ago). I can only watch DVD's on that TV.

I have sky downstairs on my main TV.

I just wondered what my options were with regards to being able to getting this bedroom TV to watch freeview - do I have to get an ''aerial man'' out to fit an aerial socket - will that pick up freeview channels? (and roughly how much woudl I expect to pay for this?), or is there some kind of gadget I can buy that will get it to work? I know there is a thing called sky multiroom but I dont really want to be paying monthly for anything....

Thanks for any help and advice anyone can give!

ariba10

If you live in an area with a reasonably good signal a cheap indoor aerial might do the trick.

Heinz

Can you give your postcode (omit the last letter though)?

Kurtis_Blue

Pimpmyride wrote: »

Hi Everyone,

Firstly, apologies for my stupidness- if theres one thing I know NOTHING about its Tv/aerial, digital signal shenanigans! But then I guess thats why I'm asking for advice here...!:o

I have a built-in-freeview TV in my bedroom at the moment, but I have no aerial socket in that room so I cant watch any TV (had the digital switchover thing in my area about a year ago). I can only watch DVD's on that TV.

I have sky downstairs on my main TV.

I just wondered what my options were with regards to being able to getting this bedroom TV to watch freeview - do I have to get an ''aerial man'' out to fit an aerial socket - will that pick up freeview channels? (and roughly how much woudl I expect to pay for this?), or is there some kind of gadget I can buy that will get it to work? I know there is a thing called sky multiroom but I dont really want to be paying monthly for anything....

Thanks for any help and advice anyone can give!

If you have an aerial socket working in the lounge, I would get someone in to cable from the sky box RF2 to the bedroom allowing full freeview AND the sky channel to be viewed upstairs, cost probably £45-65

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Pimpmyride wrote: »

I just wondered what my options were with regards to being able to getting this bedroom TV to watch freeview - do I have to get an ''aerial man'' out to fit an aerial socket - will that pick up freeview channels? (and roughly how much woudl I expect to pay for this?),

An indoor aerial might well give you an adequate signal, the only way to be sure is to try one. You can always return it to the shop if it doesn't work.
If you're prepared to spend around £150 (dependant on where you live), you could get a roof aerial fitted and this would almost guarantee Freeview channels being available to you.
As you already have Sky, you might consider a "Magic Eye" device which allows you to watch the Sky channels on another TV. The downside to this option is that you could only watch the same channel as that tuned in on the main TV.

Owain_Moneysaver

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

If you have an aerial socket working in the lounge, I would get someone in to cable from the sky box RF2 to the bedroom allowing full freeview AND the sky channel to be viewed upstairs, cost probably £45-65

That assumes that the skybox has an aerial feed carrying freeview.

It's fairly likely to only have a satellite feed, in which case the only channel available from RF2 would be the Sky one.

Kurtis_Blue

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

That assumes that the skybox has an aerial feed carrying freeview.

It's fairly likely to only have a satellite feed, in which case the only channel available from RF2 would be the Sky one.

It doesn't assume anything I clearly stated:

"If you have an aerial socket working in the lounge,"

Whats not clear there?

Pimpmyride

Thanks for your replies everyone!

My sky box in the living room is 'plugged' into a cable aerial (I presume thats what it is).

I've looked for one of these magis eyes things and found something from Argos - I cant post thelink but its called a TV link cable, item number 534/3250 - Would this kind of thing work for me?

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Pimpmyride wrote: »

My sky box in the living room is 'plugged' into a cable aerial (I presume thats what it is).

No, assuming it works, it's not plugged into an aerial or cable-it's plugged into a socket which leads to a satellite dish!

Pimpmyride wrote: »

I've looked for one of these magis eyes things and found something from Argos - I cant post thelink but its called a TV link cable, item number 534/3250 - Would this kind of thing work for me?

This is exactly what I was suggesting to you earlier. Do be aware that you would only be able to view the same channel as the living room.

Kurtis_Blue

Pimpmyride wrote: »

Thanks for your replies everyone!

My sky box in the living room is 'plugged' into a cable aerial (I presume thats what it is).

I've looked for one of these magis eyes things and found something from Argos - I cant post thelink but its called a TV link cable, item number 534/3250 - Would this kind of thing work for me?

The argos one linked is very expensive and very poor quality.

Look at antifernce brand and look to pay around £7, they need to be attached to the 2nd location TV and cabled back to the RF2 out socket on the Sky box, if you also connect the Sky box to the TV aerial as well as the dish you will receive the aerial feed and the sky channel at 2nd location.