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Neil_Jones

What do you mean you have no signal and then go on to say you have no aerial?

How are you watching the TV now?

If the issue is purely a signal issue then changing the TV won't fix anything.

coffeehound

I think they mean that due to the problems with the aerial signal, they now want to use an internet-enabled set instead

Alderbank

You probably don't need a new TV set.

Does yours have a HDMI socket on the back?
If so a Firestick or Roku stick will give you Amazon Prime and the same freeview channels you would get with a smart TV.

No currently available sets can show the same Freeview you get with an aerial, but if you can wait a month or two, Hisense, Toshiba, Bush, and JVC are on the brink of launching sets with Freely TV which will be Freeview over the internet.

Neil49

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Alderbank said:

You probably don't need a new TV set.

Does yours have a HDMI socket on the back?
If so a Firestick or Roku stick will give you Amazon Prime and the same freeview channels you would get with a smart TV.

No currently available sets can show the same Freeview you get with an aerial, but if you can wait a month or two, Hisense, Toshiba, Bush, and JVC are on the brink of launching sets with Freely TV which will be Freeview over the internet.

I want to buy a smaller tv for the bedroom so I will wait until they launch sets with freely tv.. The tv does have a HDMI socket but it's at the bottom of the tv so I need something smaller than 10cm or it will hit the cupboard.

You can buy a 90 degree hdmi connector which would allow the stick to point upwards or sideways depending on the directional location of the socket.

We have a small tv in our kitchen which runs solely off a Roku stick. Changing channels (say from BBC iplayer to ITVX is a bit of a clunky but the overall signal through WiFi is very good.