TV Aerial

[trastevere]

Daughter moved away to university. She wants a TV in her ground floor room but there is no aerial. However, at the back of the house there is a redundant dish aerial fitted on the outside wall. A co-ax enters the room but is not in use. Can she run a longish extension cable from this to her TV and what sort of box would she need that wouldn't require a subscription. btw, we are buying her a brand new hd ready set with built in freeview. The alternatives are to get an ordinary aerial fitted at our expense or to use a set-top indoor aerial. Have these improved in recent years? I seem to remember that they were pretty well useless.

[ChuckFickens]

get a TV with freesat not freeview (or get one with both)

it's freesat that will let you use the dish for no subscription.

[ACtheTROLL]

presumably she's either in halls or sharing accomodation

either way - the crims will be touring the campus with shopping trolleys - it's really not a good idea to buy anything that's worth stealing - and a hd ready tv is very much worth stealing - have you thought that every end of term if she comes home - you'll have to shift all her stuff home and then back when the new term begins.

and hd ready tellys weigh a ton
and when the rest of them find out she'd got a snazzy telly - she's never going to get rid of them

there is a reason that there is no aerial in the room(s)
she's going to be swamped with work if she intends to graduate - and uni life should be enjoyed - not from her room

presumably she'll have a laptop - a freesat dongle (or terrestrial digital) will be far cheaper and far less likely to be stolen

http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=Hauppauge+W inTV+Nova-S+usb&hl=en

buy her the telly when she graduates

[madmaggot]

Don't forget that if she views real time TV using any of the above she will need a licence.