Do you need an ariel for Freeview?

Question

Hi, I am getting Freeview soon and was wondering if you needed an ariel for it and also, does the screen stay fuzzy or become clear like Sky?

Thank you.

Answer 1

it all depends on where you Liv you mite need an upgrade you could give your TV shop a ring

Answer 2

Best with a digital aerial.

The picture is crystal clear, but can pixelate like sky, if the weather is really bad like snow or thunder,

Answer 3

Works off your normal aerial - and the picture on ours is actually much better than Sky!

Answer 4

I had to have a new aerial when I got Freeview.  It is fine now.

Answer 5

Yes but if you have a dish thats even better

Answer 6

You most certainly need an aerial  and the quality is digital the same as sky.

Answer 7

Ah! the joys of Freeview. All of this depends on a number of things. Firstly where you live. Where you live depends on the strength of signal you will get from the nearest transmitter.

The freeview box will need plugging into the aerial cable that you plug into your TV under normal circumstances.

Under normal circumstances you will need a digital aerial. However get the box (about £20-£30 from most shops) and plug it into the aerial socket in your house and set it up using the instruction manual. If it says something like "no channels found" or you only end up with 5 or 10 channels or something like that then you need a digital aerial fitting to your roof, however I have installed boxes that I know for a fact are on an aerial that is twenty years old and they have worked fine.

So don't buy an aerial until you have seen how the box behaves as aerials can be expensive - so can the fitting!.

The picture will never be fuzzy on freeview. Because freeview is digital, it will either be perfectly clear and constantly running or the following will happen: The channels that you select will come on, and then will either have no picture, or the picture will constantly freeze and the sound will break up. There will be no in between, if this happens then again, you need a digital aerial fitting to your roof.

If you have an old TV and have NOT plugged the output of your freeview box into the TV using a scart or phono lead (supplied with all freeview boxes), and instead have had to plug the freeview box into the TV aerial socket on the back and then tune your TV into it, then this might cause the picture to be fuzzy, but that is not down to the freeview box, it is down to you not tuning the TV in properly.