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Thread ID: 120944	2011-10-04 03:47:00	Freeview box	QW. (15883)	PC World Chat

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1235326	2011-10-04 03:47:00	Will every TV in my house need to have a separate Freeview box or can they all be connected to the one box? And can freeview be received using an rabbit ears aerial?	QW. (15883)
1235327	2011-10-04 04:08:00	Are you talking about Freeview|HD via UHF or Freeview via Satellite? Where are you in the country and have you checked the Freeview website to see if you are in the coverage area?	CYaBro (73)
1235328	2011-10-04 04:26:00	Talking about UHF. Located in the Manawatu. Have checked the Freeview site and I'm in the coverage area	QW. (15883)
1235329	2011-10-04 05:00:00	Cool. Unless the TVs are Freeview TVs and have the correct digital tuner built in then you will need a freeview box. You will need a freeview box for each TV if you want to watch different channels at the same time. If you don't mind watching the same channel on all TVs then they could all run off one freeview box. You would need a UHF antenna on the roof unless you are close and have line of site to the transmitter then you could probably get away with rabbit ears.	CYaBro (73)
1235330	2011-10-04 18:22:00	Rabbit ears are unlikely to work well in most places, but worth a try I guess. They pick up nothing here in Hamilton less than 3km from the infill transmitter and with a good line of sight to that and the Te Aroha site where my outdoor aerial is pointing. To use one box with more than one tv you would have to split the output and distribute it which could be tricky and probably harder than splitting the aerial feed.	dugimodo (138)
1235331	2011-10-04 20:45:00	U can run more than one TV off one Freeview box by using a splitter. You may get signal loss depending on what distance you are covering and the connected TV's will only show the TV channel selected on the Freeview box ... i.e. You can't watch different channels on the individual TV's.	SP8's (9836)
1235332	2011-10-04 20:51:00	dugimodo & QW ... it does depend on what output options are available. If you have RF In ~ Out sockets, it's easy enough to split it on the RF Out side ... HDMI and others make it more difficult.	SP8's (9836)
1235333	2011-10-04 22:35:00	Rabbit ears are unlikely to work well in most places, but worth a try I guess. They pick up nothing here in Hamilton less than 3km from the infill transmitter and with a good line of sight to that and the Te Aroha site where my outdoor aerial is pointing. To use one box with more than one tv you would have to split the output and distribute it which could be tricky and probably harder than splitting the aerial feed. Really? I can pick up Freeview|HD with a straight coax cable and no antenna at all here at the shop :D Granted we are about 1km from the transmitter with line of site, only a few trees in the way.	CYaBro (73)
1235334	2011-10-04 22:36:00	I was assuming the output would likely be a composite / component / HDMI type, never occured to me RF might be an option. Edit: Cya you're just lucky, you could probably stick a finger on the aerial socket and pick up a picture. For the majority of us this is not the case. We've been trying to get it working for my flatmate on a variety of indoor aerials with no success and I know there is an infill transmitter less than 3km away in a straight line. I assume the infill is weaker than the main transmitter on Te Aroha and I generally have better luck pointing at that. On the other hand almost any outdoor UHF aerial works pretty well here.	dugimodo (138)
1235335	2011-10-05 00:01:00	I have an ancient tube TV but my DVD recorder has a freeview tuner in it and I can pick up all the freeview channels perfectly with rabbit ears. In addition, my rabbit ears are broken (they have one ear only) and I keep it on the ground behind a chest of drawers. I've no idea where the transmitter is out here, but I could never get normal TV off just rabbit ears before I got the DVD recorder with the freeview tuner built in. Based on my experience I'd say it's worth a try. :)	catspyjamas (15614)
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