TV in Kitchen - What are my options?

Mrs_CP

Cornucopia wrote: »

If the property doesn't have a terrestrial aerial (because it's been installed with Freesat) then putting in a new one may not be cheap.

If you have decent Wifi, I would agree with others that some kind of streaming option would probably be cheapest/easiest.

Now TV is c. £15 for the box at the moment (though there are usually offers for reduced cost box & subs bundles for pay TV). That provides access to BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 catch-up without further payment. I assume there are also live BBC channels via iPlayer, and there are definitely live ITV channels via ITV hub. If you subscribe to a Pay TV package, you also get those live channels, too (which are Sky channels).

There's also Chromecast and Amazon solutions, as well as more "techy" brands like Roku. If you have Apple products, maybe look at Apple TV.

Alternatively, if you are going to need a new TV anyway, you could get a small Smart TV, like this: https://www.richersounds.com/product/tv---all/lg/24mt48s/lg-24mt48s

You might need to investigate which players it comes with, as they vary.

Great - thank you very much

Norman_Castle

It may be freesat only because of poor freeview reception. Happy to be corrected but I believe you will need either freesat boxes or freesat enabled tvs for the four current connection points.
The satellite dish will have one cable with a splitter dividing it to the current four outputs. This could be replaced with a splitter with five outputs.

McKneff

Computer or laptop with I player, itv hub. Etc

Inner_Zone

Norman_Castle wrote: »

It may be freesat only because of poor freeview reception. Happy to be corrected but I believe you will need either freesat boxes or freesat enabled tvs for the four current connection points.
The satellite dish will have one cable with a splitter dividing it to the current four outputs. This could be replaced with a splitter with five outputs.

Would not work. You can't split a satellite signal and four cables are needed for H high and low & V high and low polarities to a multi switch. Dish probably has an four output LNB, which could be updated to an eight way.

bsod

Mrs_CP wrote: »

Those were the days lol - plug it in and off you go!

Nothing has changed, you are looking for a complicated solution and ruling out the obvious before you've even moved in and tried it.

Portable aerials start at £1, loft/roof aerials start at a tenner

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bsod wrote: »

Nothing has changed, you are looking for a complicated solution and ruling out the obvious before you've even moved in and tried it.

Portable aerials start at £1, loft/roof aerials start at a tenner

Exactly what I have already suggested.

(I do agree with the OP that a rooftop aerial can be £100 + for installation, but portables are cheap as chips)

I don't think a coat hanger will work anymore though...

bsod

your suggestion was brushed aside

my kitchen aerial does, it is very similar to a wire coat hanger, and cost about the same

teddysmum

If you are in a decent Freeview area, a portable aerial (including a mains run booster ) is quite cheap from Argos. Ours works without the booster.


You could try an aerial from Argos, then return it, if it doesn't work (may have to take a credit note, as it's not faulty), provided that the wires are packaged to look unused. (It's possible to try while leaving the wire still in its retaining strip.)