telronaldo
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Hi - I was wondering is it possible to pick up DTV using an indoor aeriel?
Hi - I was wondering is it possible to pick up DTV using an indoor aeriel?
Combatcolin said:If you own your home, cough up for an external aerial - it will last 25 years and will offer a fantastic signal quality.
If you rent...try to spilt the cost with your landlord, make an offer and see.
Signal splitter boxes will let you run 4 TV's from 1 aerial, may cost a bit but worth it in the long run.
Indoor aerial's are crap - don't waste your money.
If it's just for occasional / casual watching it may be worth trying an indoor aerial but what area are you in and how far from the transmitter?Thanks. I actually have SKY installed and a magic eye connected to this second tv I got for the bedroom. It was just a thought so that the wife could escape to bedroom to watch FTA channels (with sky sports on main TV)
If I was more DIY knowledge I would be able to run a separate cable to this second tv from sat dish as I have an additional sky box!
Railway said:If it's just for occasional / casual watching it may be worth trying an indoor aerial but what area are you in and how far from the transmitter?
You could try a few foot length of wire and see if you get anything as a starting point, just push a bared end into the center of the aerial socket and do a scan.
I did have a cheapish indoor channel which picked up no digital channels & some weak analogue channels. That is reason for first post as I have seen some advertised >£20 that claim to pick up digital channels.
winston2010 said:They will, in a good signal area, which you are not. No aerial will pick up digital channels better than analogue channels. Put simply, there is NO SUCH THING as a digital aerial.
It is largely a question of geography. Indoor aerials will work (for digital or analogue transmissions - where they still exist), but you have to be in the right place. That means a location where the signal level from the transmitter is strong enough to penetrate to wherever the aerial is located.Ok thanks. I saw an indoor aerial in Tesco which seemed to suggest that you could get digital channels. I was sceptical which is why I posted on this forum.
Rodders53 said:Sky dish feed to bedroom: You can make your own cables from good parts and - provided you can easily and safely access the dish/lnb - it's quite simple. Google will find guides on how to do it. satcure and aerialsandtv show how.
Alternatively, ask a local installer how much he'd charge... it will be cheaper than an aerial install and may not be that expensive if you take off the price of a set-top aerial, and the parts to d-i-y.
If the LNB is single output, and some might still be (or if all outputs are in use on a multi-output LNB), how can you add an extra cable?If you can reach the satellite dish you can fix the extra cable from it - no technical knowledge required.
A1944 said:If the LNB is single output, and some might still be (or if all outputs are in use on a multi-output LNB), how can you add an extra cable?
Option 1: Run a cable from the RF2 out of the spare bedroom Sky box to the TV you propose to let wife watch: control it with the new magic eye.I actually have my panasonic TV hooked up via freesat, a SKY HD box connected and a 2nd sky box hooked up in a spare bedroom to the one dish (not the room we sleep in which is we're my new TV is and a magic eye connected & working to SKY HD box)
I do also have a second satellite dish with a second satellite receiver (for astra 19 & hotbird) hooked up to my panny.
So not sure I can do anything with this spare sky box.
Also I now have an additional new magic eye if anyone has any suggestions how to put it to use??