Upgrading aerial to digital

SaBBz · 4 Feb 2008 at 20:07

I recently bought a digibox as my area can receive digital, only to find out that my aerial is not up to it. Does anyone have any experience of this fixing the problem and also any idea of how much this is likely to set me back?

Thanks in advance.

big_white_dog84 · 4 Feb 2008 at 20:22

That's very surprising. I was able to get digital through a £3 Argos jobby for a few months before I moved. Are you using a portable aerial? Is it maybe right next to some pipes in the walls? Other than that I'm all out of ideas.

SaBBz · 4 Feb 2008 at 20:23

big_white_dog84 said:
That's very surprising. I was able to get digital through a £3 Argos jobby for a few months before I moved. Are you using a portable aerial? Is it maybe right next to some pipes in the walls? Other than that I'm all out of ideas.

It's a rooftop aerial unfortunately. I think the digital signal may be different in different areas as, like you say, some people in certain areas can pick it up on portable aerials!

[DOD]Asprilla · 4 Feb 2008 at 20:23

You might want to get this moved to the Home Cinema and Hi-Fi section since that's where all TV hardware related stuff gets answered.

However: this weekend I had my aerial upgraded to a high gain rig, had the cable re-routed though the loft and split to feed a distribution box that was already splitting and amplifying the signal to a number of other TVs.

£180 all in.

Werewolf · 4 Feb 2008 at 20:29

From memory it cost us about £40 and about an hour to fit a new high gain, widefrequency aerial.

[DOD]Asprilla · 4 Feb 2008 at 20:32

Werewolf said:
From memory it cost us about £40 and about an hour to fit a new high gain, widefrequency aerial.

If you want to do it yourself then you can actually get them for about £30.

However, I don't do roofs so there's no way in hell I was going up to do it.

Cr0fty · 4 Feb 2008 at 21:01

You're doing it wrong!

Replace your aerial with digibox.

Solved.