[mythtv-users] UK DVB Tuning Nightmare

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On 19 May 2011 18:02, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:

>
> Erm, no. If you are talking about *digital* TV, then you likely get almost
> *all*
> of the available channels. It's nothing like analogue, where you got the
> BBC
> channels from one transmitter and the ITV ones from another. *All* channels
> are
> transmitted from one location by the same aerial.
>

Blinks. Looks at the channels he gets. Digital. Yup. Different from
different places. Check. Lots of duplicates. Check.


> The only reasons you might want to have more than one aerial pointed in
> different directions are: (i) you want to get the local news/weather from
> more
> than one region or (ii) you're near the English/Welsh/Scottish border and
> want
> both options. Of course, if you do that you'll need at least one tuner per
> aerial.
>

Or you don't have a directional aerial. And no I don't need a tuner per
aerial. I can pick them all up with a single freeview box as well, including
duplicates.
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