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Tv ariel
Tv ariel
by Slater39 » Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:51 pm
What sort of digital TV box do I need for my UK ariel. We use to have one but changed to Internet with fire stick. Internet not strong enough. Don't want to upgrade Internet just want basic TV.
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Re: Tv ariel
by satandpcguy » Fri Feb 04, 2022 8:19 am
You will not get UK TV with a TV aerial (no matter which country you bought in it!) in Spain, as the masts in Spain only transmit Spanish channels.
If you want UK TV, and not via internet, then you will need a satellite dish, and a satellite receiver, either a Freesat, Sky, or free to air satellite receiver (or a TV with a built in satellite receiver).
Unless you are in the UK, and thus want UKTV via a tv aerial that can receive UK channels from the masts, in which case just about all TVs have built in terrestrial tuners, ie Freeview.
If you want UK TV, and not via internet, then you will need a satellite dish, and a satellite receiver, either a Freesat, Sky, or free to air satellite receiver (or a TV with a built in satellite receiver).
Unless you are in the UK, and thus want UKTV via a tv aerial that can receive UK channels from the masts, in which case just about all TVs have built in terrestrial tuners, ie Freeview.
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Re: Tv ariel
by jpeg » Fri Feb 04, 2022 9:11 am
Change your internet provider and get get a better package
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Re: Tv ariel
by Paul - TV Techie » Fri Feb 04, 2022 11:59 am
Slater39 wrote:What sort of digital TV box do I need for my UK ariel. We use to have one but changed to Internet with fire stick. Internet not strong enough. Don't want to upgrade Internet just want basic TV.
Thanks
It sounds like if you want basic or free to air TV, then a satellite dish should suffice. This will give you subscription free TV, if that is what you are looking for.
A standard terrestrial type antenna will only get Spanish TV.
Many new or nearly new Smart TV's have a satellite tuner inbuilt - should be DVBS-2 listed under the manufacturers spec of the TV. If an older TV, then would need a satellite receiver - set top box, to connect to the satellite dish, for the UK terrestrial TV.
Firesticks you may be able to get UK free to air TV on, but would need to add in a paid VPN and then further applications which may or may not be so reliable (for free to air TV). This depending on VPN would allow access to iplayer / ITV hub etc. But there is no official free live streams (technically outside of the UK), so will always be some workaround with this type of method for free to air content to make it accessible if outside the UK & doing online *not via satellite.
Re the Firestick - you mention signal not strong enough, so the issue may be one of internet signal strength on the little antenna in the Forestick which is a bit, well small...If the internet signal can be improved, would that fix the Firestick issue? Not sure if i've understood all correctly - if so, there are ways of boosting your internet signal - there are also different boxes for these type of services, some of which do the job much better than the Firesticks.
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