Digital Aerials

[paddywak]

I will shortly be getting a new digital aerial and my question is this. I have aerial sockets in several rooms via a booster and splitter, the cables being buried and I would like to know if there is a difference in the type of cable used for digital TV or will my old cables be OK?

[eastern]

If they are proper co ax they will be fine, only problem I have found is some wall sockets can be a bit troublsome but if they are ok with terrestial then they should be fine for digi. When you get the new aerial make sure it is a high gain one, they only cost a few pounds more but make a big difference on reception quality. The problem with digi is you need a strong siganl all the time otherwise you will get pixellation of the picture and boxes locking up.

[jigman1]

I moved into a house recently with a sky satellite dish on the rear wall , I didn't want sky or anything else owing to my Sony tv having built in freeview so I bought a digital aerial that I intended to fit on the chimney.The dish cable ran up and over the roof and down the front wall of the property so there was plenty of it.
I found that the dish cable was indentical to ordinary tv co-axial aerial cable so I used this.If its any good for you I bought a digital aerial from screwfix and it was less than �25 and I have a perfect picture and reception .Hope this info is of use to you.

[paddywak]

eastern & jigman thanks very much for your answers, the sockets all work with the ordinary TV it's just that I didn't want to have to start mucking about if I could help it as we've only just redecorated.

[vehelpfulguy]

There is no such thing as a digital aerial.

[eastern]

Sorry to disagree vehelpfulguy but there are old type terrestial aerials that will not pick up the full spectrum of digital, you will then have to buy a new digital compatible aerial and hey presto you get all the digi channels.