Portable TV Freeview

Mettan
Mettan Posts: 2,103
edited April 2009 in The bottom bracket
Does anyone know if you can have a freeview setop-box connected to a poratble TV ? (ie 15 inch with a little aerial on top - to be used as 2nd Freeview-enabled TV) - we've currently got a main LCD TV downstairs with a built-in Freeview receiver (this uses the house main aerial etc, all wired and plugged in).

Ta.

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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Don't think the set top ariel will be able to provide a strong enough signal for the freeview at present with an analogue and digital signal being broadcast, when analogue is dropped there is talk that the digital signal will be boosted.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    course you can, well you can in our house anyway, but presumably varies depending where you live

    move to Wallsend, problem solved. Or maybe try a better aerial first
  • Mettan
    Mettan Posts: 2,103
    Thanks guys - Wiffa, have you got a freeview box to portable TV definately working ? (I haven't tried yet - just checking it out first).

    Thanks
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    At my parents' place in Luton they can't even get a decent digital freeview signal with a rooftop aerial. It's constantly pixellating and the sound drops in and out so there's no way they could get a strong enough signal with a mini aerial. In some areas of the UK the digital signal is ridiculously poor, if they don't turn up the strength then a lot of people will have no access to TV when they bin analogue.
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  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    got two portables with freeview boxes and a 32" lcd with built in digital receiver all working fine using only the cheapest loop aerials

    doesn't mean it will work everywhere though

    got another 32" hooked up to a sky dish and the picture on that is no better

    ironically, I hardly watch the telly, but wife and kids do. It does me head in sometimes to hear the same programme on three different tellys in three different rooms
  • Mettan
    Mettan Posts: 2,103
    Thanks Wiffa - that sounds good enough - worth a punt at 14.99

    http://www.ebuyer.com/product/104673/sh ... ct_reviews

    :)

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