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Posted By: bizzybee Freeview signal - 13th Jan 2012 10:00am
My daughter has recently moved. In the previous flat her Freeview signal was excellent but is very poor in this one. She has a Toshiba Regza tv with built-in Freeview but the occupants before her had satellite and the dish and cables are still there.The landlord sent a maintenance guy to check it out and he has rigged it up using an old Sky digibox, somehow. But still things break up in bad weather and she cannot get as many channels as before.
Any advice or suggestions would be very welcome.
Posted By: little_pob Re: Freeview signal - 13th Jan 2012 10:21am
She'll only be getting the FTA (free-to-air) channels on the Sky box.

She's essentially got 4 options:
Buy an internal aerial.
Buy a Freesat box.
Get a Freesat from Sky viewing card or box.
Subscribe to Sky.
Posted By: bizzybee Re: Freeview signal - 13th Jan 2012 10:46am
Thanks for your reply,little pob. I do know that she has been considering an indoor aerial, that, I assume would be the cheapest option. Any ideas on which one to recommend?
Posted By: poodlepup Re: Freeview signal - 13th Jan 2012 12:11pm
This Aerial is brill,its better than my outdoor aerial!! I got mine from the link Mattlfc Posted,but now Argos do them aswell.

Here's a link to previous thread indoor aerial
Posted By: philmch Re: Freeview signal - 13th Jan 2012 12:11pm
Originally Posted by bizzybee
Thanks for your reply,little pob. I do know that she has been considering an indoor aerial, that, I assume would be the cheapest option. Any ideas on which one to recommend?


I'd get an amplified aerial - that's one that has batteries in. I got one from Wilkinson's several years back for about £15. I use it for the spare telly in the upstairs room and it works very well.
Posted By: philmch Re: Freeview signal - 13th Jan 2012 12:14pm
Something like this will probably do very well:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9004272.htm
Posted By: little_pob Re: Freeview signal - 13th Jan 2012 12:23pm
http://www.ricability-digitaltv.org.uk/pages/test-reports/indoor-aerials/recommendations.htm

As she's already got the box and dish, at £25 the Freesat from Sky viewing card isn't much more than an indoor aerial: http://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/faq/#3
Posted By: poodlepup Re: Freeview signal - 13th Jan 2012 12:29pm
I'd go for the indoor aerial suggested from amazon/argos,its the only one that i tried out of 4 that worked,with no picture break up at all.

She will still have picture break up in bad weather with the freesat viewing card.
Posted By: bizzybee Re: Freeview signal - 13th Jan 2012 12:33pm
Thanks for your help, guys.

I have told her to check out this thread.
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