| Author | Message | ||
     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Where we've moved, we get a crap picture on our telly. We have a BT line, so I wondering whether I could get digital telly somehow? Does anyone know anything about this? Does digi telly not need an aerial? Help! | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.171 |
We had to get SKY because our reception was non-existent. You could try a freeview box but my parents tried it and it didn't work because they live in Wales, where you can' get any kind of signal at all. You probably need one of those Broadband / TV package type things. I think mine is £26-00 a month for everything except movies and sport and naughty stuff, none of which I need SKY to supply me with ;-> | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
I asked Sky (through my teeth, thinking of Murdoch) about that package and they said I couldn't have it, cos the lines out here are BT only. ??? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
BT Broadband can sell you a combined broadband/TV thingy, and you can get some sort of pvr with it too - not sure what it's like though. Info here:- http://www.btvision.bt.com/vision/index.htm In the main, digital tv comes in three flavours - via your aerial aerial (Freeview), along a cable, or through a satellite dish. For Freeview you do need a halfway decent signal from your tv aerial, so if analogue looks shite, you can bet Freeview will too. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.50.90 |
I have BT telly/broadband. The On Demand is lovely - there's some lovely oldish stuff on there, and there's a thing called replay where you get to catch stuff you've missed in the week, although ITV doesn't support it, just Four and the beeb. Picture quality varies mind, on some channels. We were only going to try it for a while but might be keeping it, it's so nifty. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.193.10 |
Digi telly does need an aerial, but the theory is you can get booster aerial's that enable you to pick up more feeble signals. Digi boxes are quite cheap now, and returnable to Argos if they don't work . . . | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.193.10 |
Uh, as long as you buy them from Argos. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
...and this is now an option too, Gary:- http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.215 |
Thanks, Mick! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
From what I've divined, if you get a good picture with your present TV then you'll be ok with a freeview digi box with no booster. Don't you have an aerial on your house anyway? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I presumed you were wondering if you needed a special aerial for digi. You don't. But if you are using a landline and don't have a normal aerial then you won't know if your area gets all the channels through a normal aerial. Even with a bad area you would still get the main terrestrial channels with a normal aerial. I'm I writing robot poetry here?  |