TV & Aerial?

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

Hi,

Hoping someone can help.

DD1 wants a TV for Christmas. I have sky multiroom but the TV upstairs is in her sisters room, theres no other aerial. I don't know what 'box' to get her (Amazon? Freeview? Now?) She's 9 so will mostly be kid channels.

Can anyone help/suggest anything?

Thankyou

thescouselander

You could try a high gain antenna in the loft if you just want freeview. They're cheap enough and an easy diy install.

neilmcl

You can get a lot of stuff for Kids on Amazon but you'll need an Amazon Prime membership to access it legitimately, or as above get an aerial installed. If you actually have an aerial on your house it may be worth just getting a feed installed into that bedroom, shouldn't cost that much either.

flashg67

Unless you're prepared to subscribe to Now TV or Amazon, or accept the limited free content, I'd add an extra aerial feed + freeview box (one off cost). You could also subscribe to another Sky multiroom box.
Or an Android box (internet connection needed)to get access to all the catch up services like My5, iPlayer etc?

bsod

unless she needs specific content not available on freeview, or needs to record, no box or tuner is required, a freeview tuner is built into the tv. If you have no roof/loft aerial, plug a cheap passive indoor aerial into your existing tv and tune it in to see what you can get

https://www.freeview.co.uk/why-freeview/channels

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

Thank you all for the replies.


To be honest she doesn't really watch anything that she's interested in (Her sister hogs the remote...)


When she does manage to pry the remote from her sisters rock hard grasp its usually Disney / Nickelodeon - I cant see anything on Freeview that she "would" watch tbh

DoaM

We had a similar issue several years ago. If all you're bothered about would be Freeview ... in the sister's room, fit a powered splitter (with at least 2 outputs) and plug the existing aerial into it. Then connect one output to sister's TV, and run a coax (through the wall if necessary) from the other output to DD1's TV.

That's what I did. The hole in the wall in one room is behind a wardrobe; in the other room it is inside a fitted wardrobe. (In the other room I ran the coax cable to an aerial socket that I fitted to the skirting board).

If not Freeview then ignore the above.