miffy Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 We currently use free view, using an indoor ariel. Its a bit of a pain tbh, to keep moving it to set it up every time the weather changes. So should we pay out for a proper ariel and get that set up properly or get freest which MiL has in her lounge and works very well. Your experiences or thought appreciated please..thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Hi Miffy, I don't have any experience of Freesat, but when we got our Freeview box (quite a few years ago now), we had a digital aerial installed. It cost about £70 for the aerial and installation and the reception has been good ever since. Hope that's of some use! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel19 Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 We have Freesat as are unable to get Freeview in our area. You get less channels on freesat believe it or not and it gets a bit temperamental in the snow or heavy rain but other than that its pretty good. We set ours up ourselves with a dish etc pretty easily. If i had a choice i'd have freeview but for us its freesat or nothing now Shame really as our old terrestrial signal was much better quality (even if we did only get BBC 1 and 2). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&T Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 We had freeview, and then something went wrong with the ariel so stopped working properly and the picture was horrendous. We ended up getting Virgin as the cost at the time for connecting up to them, and then just having the basic package (similar to freeview) was better then the cost of getting someone to fix the ariel... Not sure what offers Sky or Virgin are offering now, but could be worth checking it out?? Of course since then extra packages have sneaked on - my OH's Sports package being the main culprit!!! Perhaps it would have been better to have got the ariel fixed - although I am sure he would have found a way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miffy Posted February 25, 2012 Author Share Posted February 25, 2012 thanks for that, OH not keen on going Sky/Virgin route, but I will check it out. Groovey Chick, would you recommend the people who set yours up?? I have been think ing I probably need to get someone around to give us some prices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Hi Miffy, I got my local electrical retailers, 'Woolacotts' to do it. http://www.hbh-woolacotts.co.uk/ I don't know how far down the county you are, but I know they have a branch in St. Austell. I can highly recommend them. I never go anywhere else to purchase electrical things or for repairs. Hope that they can help you- if not, maybe they would be able to recommend someone to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAJ Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Have you had the digital switch over as yet? The reason why I ask is that once the anologue signal is switched off the digital signal is boosted, so some areas where people have problems with digital reception it improves greatly after the switch. We have Freeview with an ariel, but we also have an electric signal booster - it is cheapere than a new ariel and just plugs in tot he ariel cable. Tracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miffy Posted February 26, 2012 Author Share Posted February 26, 2012 Thanks GrooveyChick, will contact them next week. Tracey never knew we could do that, will ask whoever we get for a quote about it, thanks. I knew I could count on this forum for some good sensible advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
