Freeview Questions

devonpie

Hi, any help would be gratefully appreciated.

I am considering ditching sky and moving to freeview to save money. My house has 3 floors, so...

1. Do I need a seperate set top box for each TV on each floor?

2. Can you get freeview via a set top box + indoor aerial?

Cheers

superscaper

devonpie wrote: »

Hi, any help would be gratefully appreciated.

I am considering ditching sky and moving to freeview to save money. My house has 3 floors, so...

1. Do I need a seperate set top box for each TV on each floor?

2. Can you get freeview via a set top box + indoor aerial?

Cheers

1. Only if you want to watch different channels on different tvs at the same time, although if you only had one set top box you'd still need additional equipment (wireless video senders and/or an awful lot of cabling), especially just to change the channel.

2. Depends on the aerial and where you live, I think in most cases it will be pretty poor.

coolagarry

1 yes. Unless you have one of those devices for transferring what is being viewed on one tv to another tv.
2 Probably not, although some poeple with particularly good signals are able to do so.

(Edit. Just beat me to it SuperScaper... Good job the answers were pretty much the same lol)

vertical_fool

1) You could get a PVR for your main TV which would allow you to record programs and play them back. You may be used to this on Sky.

You may have a setup that then sends the currently selected channel to your other tvs but you'd have to watch the channel that the PVR/ freeview box was tuned into.

You could just get a couple of cheap freeview boxes for your other tvs, I've even seen cheap boxes for under £20.

2) I've used an indoor aerial for freeview before, some channels work fine while some are unwatchable. There is even indoor aerials designed for digitital/freeview ( I don't know how they differ) avaiable. Overall it will depend on the quality of the signal that you receive from the transmitter.

Vertical

philnicandamy

Had various freeview indoor antennas & to be honest could only get snow with most

devonpie

Pretty much as I thought, tho looking in Argos catalogue, there are quite a few aerials for freeview, but its probably luck of the draw.

Is there a way of checking how strong your signal is, without buying the stuff and finding it doesn't work?

philnicandamy

devonpie wrote: »

Pretty much as I thought, tho looking in Argos catalogue, there are quite a few aerials for freeview, but its probably luck of the draw.

Is there a way of checking how strong your signal is, without buying the stuff and finding it doesn't work?

try here

http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/reception.html#coverage