Do you need to plug in an aerial to get Freeview?

41notTrendy · 2013-04-11T17:31:45+00:00

Forgive me if that's a daft question, but I assumed the digital signal was floating around in the ether and a Freeview TV would receive it. But do I still need to plug the old brown aerial cable in? [blush] Normally quite techie but I'm a bit [confused]

Locketjuice · 11/04/2013 18:37

You do

MrsBucketxx · 11/04/2013 18:38

yup, you may need a new Arial I dont know.

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41notTrendy · 11/04/2013 18:41

Thank you. TV going back to shop, no telly in bed for us

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FrozenFlowers · 12/04/2013 12:57

You might be able to use a freestanding table top aerial. We had one for the bedroom tv in our old flat as there was no aerial socket in that room. It was about £20 or something from John Lewis or Argos (I forget which!) and we had no problems getting free view channels with it. It will depend on signal strength in your area though.