Please help, I am baffled! I have moved in to a rented house and it appears none of the other 5 houses have aerials, but all have sky dishes, as does mine. Coming in from outside is a standard external aerialcable which I have plugged directly in to my TV (which is Full HD with built in Freeview) and I have left the dish cables unplugged, which also come in through the wall as i have no STB. the area receives strong Freeview signal and all channels are available. However, my TV is not picking up any channels at all, including Analogue, so I can only presume that the standard Aerial cable is linked somehow to the sky dish! Is this possible? Also, that being the case, I have a Sky + box (no viewing card) which if I connect to the cables there and to the TV via SCART, will my TV then be able to pick the freeview channels as well as analogue? I am completely confused, and really don't want to be forced to subscribe to SKY. I am not dumb, but this has me completely baffled!
Thursday 1 December 2011 1:07PM
Please help, I am baffled! I have moved in to a rented house and it appears none of the other 5 houses have aerials, but all have sky dishes, as does mine. Coming in from outside is a standard external aerial cable which I have plugged directly in to my TV (which is Full HD with built in Freeview) and I have left the dish cables unplugged, which also come in through the wall as i have no STB. the area receives strong Freeview signal and all channels are available. However, my TV is not picking up any channels at all, including Analogue, so I can only presume that the standard Aerial cable is linked somehow to the sky dish! Is this possible? Also, that being the case, I have a Sky + box (no viewing card) which if I connect to the cables there and to the TV via SCART, will my TV then be able to pick the freeview channels as well as analogue? I am completely confused, and really don't want to be forced to subscribe to SKY. I am not dumb, but this has me completely baffled!