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We are trying to decide what to do on the digital switchover next year.
We have three Tvs, on in the living room also in two of the bedrooms. The living room set Has a Freeview PVR.
Freeview signal is not strong, do we have to fit three ariels and three receivers?
If we go the the Freesat route, how do we run three sets? Three receivers with a dish having multi LNBs?
Just to complicate matters, My youngest grand-daughter likes to use mye laptop with the TV dongle and the van ariel to watch the music channels.
Are we going to be like GCHQ with ariels sprouting all over the place, or a massive dish fitted to the roof? Or worse still a combination of ariels and dishes!
As I understand it, there is an intention to improve signal strengths as regions change over - so that should help. It should not in any case be necessary to have multiple aerials. A distribution amplifier should do the job. But, you will need to make sure you have a good aerial, well set up, using the correct coax downleads, to give yourself the best chance
One decent aerial and a distribution amplifier. They must be upgrading transmitters in poor reception area,I've seen technicians assessing signal strength in our area.
You could get a mini dish, quad lnb, reel of coax and a few freesat receivers... would guarantee reception as long as you have line of sight to satellite.
On switchover all transmitters will have their power increased by a factor of 10. Therefore if you get even a weak Freeview signal now, you will get a perfect signal as soon as your transmitter switches. In fact there are fears that some signals may be too powerful.
So, the best solution will be one aerial, satellite grade cable all round and a distribution box to sent the signal to all of your TVs.
Gerry
Decide Freeview or satellite (or both), feed the signal from the antenna to the main lounge TV with separate box(es), cable back up the way it came down to distribution amplier in loft, then cable to each bedroom TV, kitchen TV, etc. You can then watch any digital terrestrial channels on any TV, plus a satellite channel via convenient radio remote. All broadcasts from digital sources and just one (or two) aerials on the house.
That's what I do anyway, throwing in security camera feeds too, optionally recorded locally or motion triggered pics sent off site.
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