Thinking of switching to freeview

coolagarry

I have a freeview box in the living room and one in the bedroom. The one in the bedroom is the £32 one from asda and is the best of the two although the other cost £20 more.

hansi

I have two Daewoo Setpal boxes and both work ok on an indoor aerial

Joe_Bloggs

@Hansi and all.
An indoor aerial will not work for everybody. If you live close to the transmitter then there is a good chance that it will work. The other extreme is a high gain antenna with a masthead amplifier for those in weak signal areas.
These digital signals are broadcast at low power. High quality cables are required to preserve the signal intensity and screen it from local interference.
J_B.

bigT_5

It is all very well freeview and sky but unless you spend a lot more money you cannot watch one programme and tape another as you can do with analogue.

Mr_Skint_2

Er you can if you run it through the VCR first, and then watch Terrestial TV

bigT_5

but what happens when they swith off analogue?

Mr_Skint_2

I shall let you know in 2007 :rotfl:

tweeter

if freesat takes off do I give up upgrading my tv aerial, because its been mooted that sky might give away their stuff to grab market share or is this a non runner?

gizmoleeds

tweeter wrote:

if freesat takes off do I give up upgrading my tv aerial, because its been mooted that sky might give away their stuff to grab market share or is this a non runner?

I doubt it cos it would be so unprofitable. If you bought a second hand sky box from ebay though and had a local man install the dish it might be quite cheap.