Help, Digital TV Enquiry.

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My daughter is moving into a new house. It dosent have an Ariel and with Digital coming to her area next month, she has been told she will need one even though she will be getting Sky, is this correct?

Sorry for wrong topic, but more people seem to read chattterbank.

[dotty.]

but if she has a second TV and doesn't pay the extra for sky multi-room you may need a freeview digi box and ariel for a second TV I guess.

[dotty.]

well we had sky and sky multiroom with a second box, but it was a pain having to have both boxes rigged up to the home phone line and the broardband line in there aswell, so we ditched sky upstairs and the multi-room and got freeview then I bought a samsung down here with bult in freeview and so we ditched sky altogether, the two sky boxes are in the cupboard doing nothing.,

[dotty.]

we have had one of those and it was very poor, that's why we paid out for the multi-room adapter on the sky dish

[AlBags]

No aerial required.
Use RF2 out on Sky box and switch on RF power in back menu.
Connect up RF2 to second room and use a magic eye so you can operate another sky remote from that room. Sky box can only display 1 channel. You coould install a dual lnb and send cables to 2 rooms, where you attach two receivers. That will give you different chgannels on each.
Cheapest is Freeview with antenna, Sky with no subscription, or Freesat. Sky or Freeview probably cheapest. Sky needs dish (£15 ish and receiver for £20 (ebay) Freeview needs antenna and maybe amp (£100-odd)

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Thanks for all your reply's, much appreciated.