help with connecting TV

frogglet

I have a spare flat screen TV that i would like to put in the dining room. The TV is only two or three years old. what do I need? Is there such things as aerials anymore? T.he rest of the house is sorted by sky do i have to have it connected to that or can I buy a box from tesco and plug in and watch. Feel such a thickie lol

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You'll definitely need some kind of receiving device; be it aerial, dish or (unlikely in your case) Cable.

macman

You won't need a 'box', as long as it already has a Freeview tuner built in-just a connection to an aerial. If no built-in Freview, then you'd need a Freeview digibox as well.
What made you think that aerials were now redundant?

frogglet

just thought that with satellites and cable ariels weren't used anymore. So if I buy an ariel and freeview box it should work? I looked in Tesco the other day and a lot of the freeview boxes have a satellite dish on them so also thought they have to be connected to a dish.

TadleyBaggie

frogglet wrote: »

I looked in Tesco the other day and a lot of the freeview boxes have a satellite dish on them so also thought they have to be connected to a dish.

If they connect to a dish they weren't Freeview boxes, Freeview only connects to a regular aerial. They may however have been Freesat boxes, which as their name suggests are satellite based.

macman

frogglet wrote: »

just thought that with satellites and cable ariels weren't used anymore. So if I buy an ariel and freeview box it should work? I looked in Tesco the other day and a lot of the freeview boxes have a satellite dish on them so also thought they have to be connected to a dish.

They're not required with cable and satellite, because those are different platforms. But Freeview is a terrestial service via an aerial.
Freesat, Freesat From Sky and Sky are satellite services via a dish.
Virgin is a cable service via, um, a cable.
All different services requiring different equipment.