Indoor Digital Aerials....

[anonymous-user]

Anyone use one that they think is any good?
According to the digital uk website we live in a 'good' signal area.
Hoping to use one with a 1080p HD monitor/tv with built-in Freeview (such as an LG M227WD or Samsung SM2333HD).

Being a total HD numpty, do you get HD broadcasts on terestrial digital?

thanks
Mike

[cjs]

seight said:

Anyone use one that they think is any good?
According to the digital uk website we live in a 'good' signal area.
Hoping to use one with a 1080p HD monitor/tv with built-in Freeview (such as an LG M227WD or Samsung SM2333HD).

Being a total HD numpty, do you get HD broadcasts on terestrial digital?

thanks
Mike

Sorry the answer is No & No.

Indoor aerials are not good, you could try one to see but you would be better off getting a good aerial installed on the roof.

No HD broadcasts on Freeview, maybe BBCHD will start at some point, you will likely need a new HD receiver to pick it up.

My be get a freesat HD system, do you have a Sky dish set up?

[headcase]

Freeview HD is coming after the changeover but you do need a different freeview reciever (DVBT-2) and yes most of the already freeview integrated HD sets dont have a DVB T2 decoder, dont we live in a wonderfull world.
As for set top aerials i have never had much joy with them, 90% of the time they dont work but you have to try one to find out if one will work for you.

[anonymous-user]

Thanks guys. I kind of figured the indoor aerials could be a bit too good to be true. I think I will give one a go though just to see - at £25 or so it's a cheap test compared to getting a new rooftop aerial and 4 extensions fitted.

We've only got Sky at the moment but I don't want to sign up to 12 months 'multi-room' just to get another tv working. We did have a roof aerial when we moved in but I took it down when I rebuilt the chimney for a log burner to go in! I should have fitted a new aerial while I had the scaffolding up

Interesting about the HD Freeview - I can see I need to do some reading on this.

Mike

[JeremyH]

My father has an indoor aerial which works fine on digital, however he does live on top of a big hill with almost line of site to crystal palace around six miles away.

In general though, they are terrible for both digital and analogue. If you thought analogue was fussy, then expect to see nothing at all on digital.

I had a roof aerial feeding two tv's - again not too far from the transmitter. Switched to digital and it didn't work at all unless only one tv was plugged in...

[telecat]

At Current signal levels I wouldn't bother. However after your area has switched over they might be worth looking at. Many Transmitters will be transmitting a Freeview Signal at least 10 times more powerful than the current one.

[wiggy001]

I'm using one at the moment - it's a £20 jobbie from Maplins (black base with a white loop aerial and round white power switch)

Works fine as long as it is turned up to full gain and it sitting in the one place in the room that it will work. Oh, and nobody moves!

Perfectly fine for a short-term solution while staying with the in-laws.

[Toffer]

Great aerial advice is available from the CAI.
www.cai.org.uk