Help me, Lazyweb, you're my only hope...

[caddyman]

I am looking to get some kind of aerial rigged on the Carpathia as I am beginning to suffer from random TV show withdrawal. It's not too bad at the moment, but there are times when I plonk myself in front of the telly that some mindless fare is called for and I can't frankly be arsed to put a DVD on.

To this end, I have been looking at the possibility of just getting Freesat and not bothering with a traditional aerial. Curry's Digital in Victoria quoted me £80 for the digibox, dish and installation. This seems rather too good to be true, as I paid £150 at the Athenaeum just to get a bloke on the roof and rewire an existing standard aerial.

Does anyone have any useful knowledge in this area, or is Freesat still too new for a bedrock of knowledge and folk lore to have been laid down?

Comments

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

We have a portable aerial on top of our telly. It works like a treat. Although we do live next to an enormous TV transmitter, which might help. Works with the digibox too.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Our indoor aerial allows us to watch coloured static. Of course, if I stand on one leg and point the aerial out of the window, I can upgrade it to severe ghosting, rolling AND static.

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

I guess we must be lucky.

Not so lucky because we can't get cable. But also silly because we have a proper aerial, we just don't want another unsightly cable running across our lovely victorian fireplace. Yes, we are sad.

[phil99.livejournal.com]

That's not bad really, about what I'd expect to pay. YOu can get your own kit for not much (I think I saw one for about 40-50 in B&Q lately), and installing it is a hassle though not _difficult_

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

This is a fairly useful write-up of the immediate future of freesat - http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/27/hdtv_in_the_uk/