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Indoor saorview set box top aerial

  • 13-12-2020 5:53pm
    #1
    BurgundyRose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭


    Are there any setbox top aerials for saorview and if so any recommendations?

    I moved from sky to saorview a few months ago. I had no issues setting the saorview box up using the sky aerial and the old analogue aerial. I'm getting the saorview channels and the BBC channels too.

    Sometimes it's very iffy. Sometimes there's jumpy and fussy pictures. Also it's very slow coming on from standby.

    I'm using a walker saorview box with an older Panasonic tv. Still not an older TV. Bought back in 2008 and its not one of the very old chunky TV.

    I'm not in a position to install a saorview aerial until next summer at least.

    Would there be any indoor aerials? A setbox top aerial please because I don't want work in the attic and installation costs right now.


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,112 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    This should do the job if you are near enough to the transmitter, it will not be as good as an external aerial, you get 30 days free returns with Argos so if it's no good you can bring it back. The old aerial you have should work fine too, there's no specific digital aerials.

    https://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/9338924/Trail/searchtext%3EAERIAL.htm


  • #3
    Elvis Hammond
    Registered Users Posts: 491 ✭✭Elvis Hammond


    So this is a rooftop aerial you're using? Did it get all four analogue channels? What part of the country are you in?


  • #4
    BurgundyRose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭BurgundyRose


    Elvis Hammond wrote: »
    So this is a rooftop aerial you're using? Did it get all four analogue channels? What part of the country are you in?

    There's an old aerial on the roof from well before the saorview days. I'm using the analogue aerial in the back of the box. I'm also using the sky aerial.

    I got the RTE 1 and 2 in HD. I got virgin media 3 and TG. I got another virgin media channel or two along with rte new and some radio channels.

    They were the initial channels I received and then I used the sky aerial and received more channels.

    The pictures on the saorview channels can be a little bit iffy at times and sometimes some of the UK channels freeze.

    I'm in Clare.


  • #5
    BurgundyRose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭BurgundyRose


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    This should do the job if you are near enough to the transmitter, it will not be as good as an external aerial, you get 30 days free returns with Argos so if it's no good you can bring it back. The old aerial you have should work fine too, there's no specific digital aerials.

    https://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/9338924/Trail/searchtext%3EAERIAL.htm

    Thanks for the recommendation for the aerial. I will look for this from online shopping.


  • #6
    BurgundyRose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭BurgundyRose


    There is another TV in the house and it have saorview built in. We don't have a saorview aerial on the roof and that TV works with stand up stick type of aerial in the back. That aerial doesn't seem to work on the TV in the living room. Would it be because it was bought in 2008 and its an older TV?


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