All posts by Tom Smith
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The new Freeview prediction system - includes Freeview HD | UK Tuesday 15 March 2011 3:06PM
Isle Of Arran
Mike Dimmick--thanks for your input. I omitted to say that teh church aerial has been taken down and neighbours have installed freesat. My understanding is that a TV signal is not possible if placed on each house roof; whence thay have all bought the more expensive freesat. I have it too but have a TV I would like to use there which can only work with an aerial. I could try it out but that means putting the cart before the horse and getting an arial installed then trying out. Attempting to get a "trial" done by a local TV man in Arran is not easy...!! But if I thought that the signal may be even better after the May switchover then I would make the attempt.
Many thanks
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The new Freeview prediction system - includes Freeview HD | UK Saturday 26 March 2011 4:32PM
Isle Of Arran
I think my problem is that, despite my address post code showing a "beta" ( which I take it means we should get freeview?), we may be blocked because there is a hotel just down from our house on the east side of our road ; and there is a huge garden with many large trees--could these be blocking the signal coming from the Darvel transmitter , east of us?
If so is there anything that can be done? Other than settle for freesat?
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It is possible to use an old TV which doesn't have a scart socket. Tvonics is a company that has a device that works on old Tvs to give quite good freeview reception + all available channels. I have a MFR-300 version of the tvonics box and it does work ! takes abit of fiddling but Tvonics helped me by email to achieve the desired result...
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Saturday 12 March 2011 2:00PM
Isle Of Arran
see my earlier email--sorry but email address was incorrect--correct shown below...