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options when no aerial on the roof

  • 26-02-2013 10:54pm
    #1
    budgemook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I live in a rented house where we have UPC. There is no aerial on the roof, just UPC cable.

    I have a TV in my room which I watch movies on the odd time but would like to be able to watch some television too. Can I get a rabbit ears type of job that will pick up some of the saor view channels?

    What are my options? Will the reception be any good? Living in Dublin 4


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  • #2
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,681 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    An indoor aerial should be able to pick up Saorview ok.

    Buy from Argos and you can use the money back guarantee if it doesn't work sure.


  • #3
    budgemook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭budgemook


    [Quote, IMAN;83414804]An indoor aerial should be able to pick up Saorview ok.

    Buy from Argos and you can use the money back guarantee if it doesn't work sure.[/Quote]
    Cheers, Anyone at all is it? Once it says saorview?


  • #4
    bluestrawberry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭bluestrawberry


    Hi I bought a saorview box and connected it toi tv using a scart lead and then bought rabbit ears and used them as aerial. Picture is perfect!


    budgemook wrote: »
    [Quote, IMAN;83414804]An indoor aerial should be able to pick up Saorview ok.

    Buy from Argos and you can use the money back guarantee if it doesn't work sure.
    Cheers, Anyone at all is it? Once it says saorview?[/Quote]


  • #5
    SPAWKER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭SPAWKER


    Get one of the aerials from one of the Euro 2 shops they will work just as well.


  • #6
    budgemook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭budgemook


    SPAWKER wrote: »
    Get one of the aerials from one of the Euro 2 shops they will work just as well.
    Aren't they analogue? Do you mean one of those plus a box?


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  • #7
    cjt156
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    No such thing as an analog or digital antenna. If your TV is Saorview ready you should pick up a decent signal in D4 with a simple indoor aerial antenna no probs. If the TV is not Saorview enabled, you'll need a box too.

    Oh, and this belongs in Terrestrial, not Satellite!


  • #8
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    budgemook wrote: »
    Aren't they analogue?

    The ‘digital aerial’ myth


  • #9
    budgemook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭budgemook


    Isn't there something that is the aerial and saorview box in one?


  • #10
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    No.


  • #11
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    budgemook wrote: »
    Isn't there something that is the aerial and saorview box in one?

    All Saorview STBs or TVs require an aerial of some sort attached to them to receive a signal, none with integrated aerial.

    http://rtenl.ie/wp-content/downloads/Saorview-DTT-October2010.pdf


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  • #12
    budgemook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭budgemook


    Thanks,

    Someone should invent a soarview box with integrated aerial


  • #13
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    budgemook wrote: »
    Someone should invent a soarview box with integrated aerial

    An integrated aerial wouldn't be good enough, the transmission network is designed for use with external roof mounted aerials in most cases. The same applies worldwide.


  • #14
    ene
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭ene


    hang on so if you have a saorview tv you need a aerial is well to watch channels?

    i thought it was a all in one solution


  • #15
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    ene wrote: »
    so if you have a saorview tv you need a aerial is well to watch channels?

    Yes - http://www.saorview.ie/what-is-saorview/make-the-switch/step-2-check-aerial/.


  • #16
    hju6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭hju6


    The Cush wrote: »
    The ‘digital aerial’ myth


    No such thing as a ' digital aerial' or 'analogue aerial' or 'digital tv' etc,


    An antenna (or aerial) is an electrical device which converts electric currents into radio waves, and vice versa. It is usually used with a radio transmitter or radio receiver. In transmission, a radio transmitter applies an oscillating radio frequency electric current to the antenna's terminals, and the antenna radiates the energy from the current as electromagnetic waves (radio waves). In reception, an antenna intercepts some of the power of an electromagnetic wave in order to produce a tiny voltage at its terminals, that is applied to a receiver to be amplified. An antenna can be used for both transmitting and receiving.


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