jacko
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Analog tv too digital
When we go Digital in Hull will i / we need any thing other then a digital Arial my tv dose not have free view built in it .
What channels will i / we get bbc1 /2 itv 1 / channel 4 / 5 ?????? if any
Jacko
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deltron63
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| posted on 14/2/11 at 07:06 PM |
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none without a digi box
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 14/2/11 at 07:09 PM |
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If you get a strong analogue signal you may not need an upgrade for digital (digital aerials are just a higher gain version of analogue ones). Try
and see what your picture is like before spending cash.
Apart from that you'll need a freeview box from Dixons, Curries, or similar - about £50 and upwards. Or you can buy one with a hard disk in to
record stuff (not sure how much they are). If your TV has a SCART socket then you should also use a SCART lead... don't bother to buy an
expensive one.
You will end up with 50 or so TV stations, and a hundred or so radio stations. Still the usual poor quality, I'm afraid 
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blakep82
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| posted on 14/2/11 at 07:18 PM |
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or there's freeview HD if your telly can do HD. can't remember the price of the box, but as said
you'll need a freeview digibox, and your aerial should be fine, of course theres a possibility it may not be. i'd suggest getting a
freeview box now to be sure
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 14/2/11 at 08:33 PM |
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You can get a basic Freeview box for under £20 at most of the big supermarkets and Argos etc, but some of them don't seem overly reliable IME.
TVonics makes some pretty reasonable stuff for the money however. If you are feeling flush
you could get yourself a PVR that will allow you to record programs onto an internal hard drive, just like a Sky Plus box.
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hillbillyracer
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| posted on 14/2/11 at 08:35 PM |
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We went digital a year or two back, I got a big digital arial & put it up in the loft, digibox for the old TV & it all worked fine, well under
£100. I get all the BBC channels, extra ITV & Channel 4 channels & a load of others too.
Now got TV card & windows media centre on the computer when I got it last year, works fairly well but for some reason doesnt get the listings info
for a few of the channels.
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BenB
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| posted on 14/2/11 at 08:56 PM |
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You may need nothing more than a set-top box. My new TV has a HD freeview tuner built in. The freeview website says I can't get freeview but
don't tell my TV, it picked up HD freeview just fine using the 20 year old aerial 
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hillbillyracer
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| posted on 14/2/11 at 09:19 PM |
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Yeah try your own arial, I did but it did'nt work, but the old one was a crappy little thing!
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tony-devon
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| posted on 14/2/11 at 09:29 PM |
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here they switched off analogue over a year ago
we just bought digi boxes, worked fine, until some gits in Wales complained about the signal?? anyway now they have turned down the power, barely get
more than 10% signal
probably going to do away with TV and just watch DVD's etc, theres nothing worth watching on that digital, the way they repeat things is beyond
a joke.
heavy is good, heavy is reliable, and if it breaks, hit them with it
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britishtrident
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| posted on 14/2/11 at 10:35 PM |
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Digital needs a good clean reflection free signal, minium relfection ( on analogue you would see reflection as ghosting ) is more important than the
strength of the signal so signal booster amplifiers tend not to work. Loft aerials are more prone to ghosting than outside aerials.
If you have a problem with the signal you will get some but not all availble channels, or you get pixelation and occaisional freezes.
Surprisingly often very cheap set-top boxes get more channels than expensive ones or built tuners.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 15/2/11 at 08:20 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by tony-devon
here they switched off analogue over a year ago
we just bought digi boxes, worked fine, until some gits in Wales complained about the signal?? anyway now they have turned down the power, barely get
more than 10% signal
probably going to do away with TV and just watch DVD's etc, theres nothing worth watching on that digital, the way they repeat things is beyond
a joke.
And they said the whole point of switching off the analogue is so they can boost the power...
In my area the rule was "If channel 5 has a good picture you'll be fine"
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 15/2/11 at 08:38 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
In my area the rule was "If channel 5 has a good picture you'll be fine"
For the simple reason that a number of ITV channels get their digital bandwidth on the cheap, cramming more in to an alloted space than they should.
This makes their signal quality poorer, and more prone to the effects of weather etc.
Last night that group of ITV channels from the Sudbury transmitter went off-air simultaneously, probably due to a singe bit of equipment failure -
fortunately I also have FreeSat... unfortunately those channels were showing the usual content-free cr*p, so I wandered off and did the washing up
instead!
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tony-devon
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| posted on 15/2/11 at 08:39 AM |
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we get regular freezing, generally have to reboot/do first installation and reprogram the channels at least once a fortnight, losing some channel and
gaining others each time
biggest problem is the sound being out of sync, this is very common for us
some nights you need to go up or down a channel, then back to the one your watching, maybe every 10-15 minutes to reset the sound LOL, we have so far
bought and borrowed about 6 boxes just to try and alleviate the problem
best result we had was to take it to my parents house 7 miles away, program it on their aerial, then bring it home and plug it into ours
we had a box go bang a while back, so we went without TV for a week, was good fun to be honest, watched a DVD or played games, seriously considering
binning the boxes and just doing this again
none of the TV's in my house have digital built in so I can keep them with DVD or video recorder and no license required.
we have been told by an engineer that its just our unfortunate location, also that as we were the first region to switch off, they were testing a lot
of things on us
heavy is good, heavy is reliable, and if it breaks, hit them with it
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 15/2/11 at 08:47 AM |
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Sounds like the best thing to do is go to Virgin, we only have to reset our box once a day if you're careful with how often you press the
buttons!
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 15/2/11 at 09:16 AM |
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Simplest thing would be to find a neighbour/friend who's already got a freeview box up and running in your area, borrow it for a half-hour and
see if it works in your house... it's a simple plug-in job, and you don't have to have a SCART lead to prove it one way or the other
(although it is the best way).
If you don't use the SCART then you will need the 2nd aerial lead that goes from the box to the TV, and you'll have to fiddle a little bit
more to get a result. Still not difficult though.
Worth a look at this website.
[Edited on 15/2/11 by David Jenkins]
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