Does anyone use an indoor digital tv aerial?
Can you recommend a decent one to use? I am moving to BT TV from Virgin media and some of the free to air channels can only be received using an
aerial. Some can be received via the internet but not all so after recommendations for something tried and tested
Cheers
N1
Put freeview TV in downstairs room to watch freeview TV, internal digital "set-top" aerial only picked up a few channels from strongest
multiplex on local mast. Ended up having to run a TV signal cable from loft (continuous run - no joints) small digital TV aerial and had to align
aerial perfectly to get all channels as otherwise any rainfall resulted in loss of some channels.
Loft aerial is yagi aerial and delivers strong signal to other "upstairs" set, had tried splitting signal (two leads from same aerial) and
ended up with same issue as before (losing some channels on both TVs whenever it rained) so running dedicated cable from dedicated loft mounted aerial
was the only solution...
Problem is digital freeview is just that "digital", if signal strength or signal quality is compromised you end up losing channels. In the
old "analogue" days a weak signal would still result in some sort of picture albeit with "ghosting" or "noise".
[Edited on 4-10-23 by Prof_Cook]
We have one of these in the loft;
https://www.screwfix.com/p/labgear-tri-boom-tv-aerial/839jr
But I had similar experience to Mr Cook in that I had to use a brand new unbroken lead from loft to TV, I had to use a map to get the aerial pointing
directly at the transmitter, and it only takes a bit of UK weather to lose some of the channels. As you probably already know they group channels
together (I think they're called multiplexes?), and the one that hosts the Channel 4 channels was often the first to go. We had planned on it
feeding two TV's as well, but we've given up on that idea.
The sooner all TV is available over the internet, the better.
One For All SV9440 Amplified Indoor TV Aerial
Picks up 200+ channels
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9591424