(Another) Freeview Query.....

Riesen_Meal

If this is the wrong forum mods feel free to move,

I purchased a R7 Samsung TV and it has DVB Built in to it, it picked up (through the bog standard NTL cable) RTE1, 2 TV3 and TG4 and 14 other radio stations with a perfect digital reception, analogue looks piss-poor on the tv after watching these!

After a day or two the tv seems to have lost the reception of these channels which is a pain in the arse (I know NTL were doing work in the area) but terrestrial cable is fine....

I see theres a slot for a CI card, if I buy one of these will this improve the reception and give me all freeview channels? Ie Film 4, bbc etc? or is there a card that does this?

Cheers in advance....

byte

What you were picking up is the DTT trials from 3Rock.

A CI card will not improve reception or add any additional channels at this time, if ever. That may be of use in UK for Freeview's PayTV service Top-UpTV.

To get UK's Freeview, you need a strong signal from a UK transmitter that is carrying DTT signals.

See the sticky's on the DTT trials on the top of this forum for further info.

Riesen_Meal

Cheers for the info byte,

Might have to look out for one of the FTA dishes in Aldi, for when they come up....

Cant hack SD cable anymore....

Thanks again!

watty

Or Lidl, or Maplin, or satellite.ie or hm-sat.de etc ...