Digital TV Aerial recommendations

wba31

So to be brief, I've just moved house and decided the TV in the bedroom doesn't need the Sky Multiroom package we were paying for (we only ever seemed to watch BBC 1 and ITV upstairs) so I am looking to buy an aerial to utilise the built in free view on the TV.

I've looked on Amazon and you get offered hundreds of aerials all with positive and negative reviews. Can anyone recommend one that they have that isn't too expensive (£15-£20 tops)

Thanks

penrhyn

Unless you are close to the transmitter indoor aerials are useles, you might as well use a bent coathanger.
Ideally you need one on the roof or at least in the attic if in a good reception area.

closed

they aren't useless, the signal has improved since switchover, so in many circumstances may work acceptably when fitting an aerial is difficult - worth a £1 try:

http://www.poundland.co.uk/digital-indoor-tv-aerial

ballyblack

no such thing as a 'digital aerial'

http://www.cableguys.co.uk/blogs/company-blog/dispelling-some-tv-aerial-myths

Gratis

It is, however, important to buy an aerial of the correct group for your local TV transmitter, not just the cheapest aerial you can find.

Gloomendoom

If you have an unused LNB on your Sky dish you could use Freesat.

I removed all the TV aerials from our house and now just use the satellite dish for TV signals.

kwikbreaks

ballyblack wrote: »

no such thing as a 'digital aerial'

http://www.cableguys.co.uk/blogs/company-blog/dispelling-some-tv-aerial-myths

He didn't ask about a "digital aerial" he asked about an aerial for a digital TV.

Gratis wrote: »

It is, however, important to buy an aerial of the correct group for your local TV transmitter, not just the cheapest aerial you can find.

... and that is why digital TV is different from how things were. The old analogue TV was arranged in groups with the four channels all fairly close together. Since the move to digital it's not uncommon to find you need a broader bandwidth aerial than before as the transponders are not necessarily all in the old style channel groupings.

So although there may be no such thing as a digital aerial there is indeed the need to select an aerial suitable for digital TV.

spud17

Gratis wrote: »

It is, however, important to buy an aerial of the correct group for your local TV transmitter, not just the cheapest aerial you can find.

Not longer important, difficult to find an aerial that is not wideband, i.e.no longer group specific.

johnmc

The aerial itself isn't the only thing to look at. Buy top quality coax; the sort used for satellite or cable TV with a solid outer sleeve.

wba31

Gloomendoom wrote: »

If you have an unused LNB on your Sky dish you could use Freesat.

I removed all the TV aerials from our house and now just use the satellite dish for TV signals.

Only got 1 sky box running off the dish, so is it a case of attaching something then then plugs in with co-axle to the TV?

kwikbreaks

You'll need a satellite set top box of some sort and possibly need to change to LNB on the dish to provide an extra port although most will be 2 or 4 ports already.

For cabling you run decent quality satellite grade coax from the dish to the extra satellite box then hook that up to the TV using (in descending order of quality) HDMI, SCART, composite video+sound, or coax depending on what connectors are available on each.