Moving to new build - sky and what else?

peachespeaches

We are moving to a new build next month, larger house, mum is joining us and will have her own living room. We already have sky multiroom and I presume we will take this with us to new house, one for main living room, one for kids upstairs. Rather than add another sky box on for mother, I thought it might be wasted on her. She watches soaps and quiz programmes, but doesnt want to watch catch up, she wants to watch emmerdale and tipping point at the same time she always does. If its the only way, I will do the sky thing for her but I thought there might be another way.

There is no aerial, I thought about getting her an Amazon TV Fire stick for her room, but can you actually watch live tv on it? Mother is bringing her TVs with her, she is used to one in the kitchen and bedroom besides her sitting room. What is the most economical way of supplying my mum with BBC1-5; ITV: channel 4 etc.

Give me a few ideas.

HappyMJ

A roof top aerial would be the ideal solution and over the long term the cheapest.

Yes you can watch Live TV on the Amazon Fire Stick but it can sometimes be a little frustrating with the quality of the streams and if other people are on the internet her video stream will take priority and possibly slow down the internet for everyone else.

Kurtis_Blue

If its a half decent new build then the bedrooms will be cabled.

This can tell you more new build TV aerial

Loft will be easily accessible and modern roof tiles do not attenuate RF very much.

Put in a loft aerial connect to the TV socket in lounge, and then to the main Sky box.

The lounge should have an RF return to the loft connect the RF out from the sky box to the RF return.

Find that cable in loft and connect to all the other room feeds with either a passive splitter or a "IR pass amplifier".

Boom all rooms have freeview and the Sky channel in lounge for less than £50.00

For simpler one just connect the aerial directly to the socket feeds required, should be less than £20.00

peachespeaches

I dont understand it.

Moneymaker

No problem. Pay a professional aerial installer who will understand it.

Kurtis_Blue

Very simply:

Do the rooms you want to watch TV in have sockets?

If yes then:

1. Buy TV aerial.
2. Look outside house at neighbours aerials.
3. Put aerial in loft point in same direction as external aerials.
4. Using a TV splitter, Connect the cables from the rooms you wish to view in to aerial.

Well worth a try.

Rodders53

Don't presume you can attach a $ky dish to the new build. There may be restrictions by the builders in Covenants, although there are ways round that probably... (ground mount). They may also frown on external UHF TV aerials... Loft aerials do not always work well, and some roof tiles attenuate lots and if pointing through other building walls to the transmitter you may get nothing!

Satellite ($ky) cables to M-i-L's room will allow use of freesat receivers/pvrs and a $ky box (even without a card) will provide all the usual free channels live.

http://www.aerialsandtv.com/planningyourinstall.html and the rest of that site may be a starting point for some reading if you want a normal aerial for her?