Someone posted a link to this on another forum today. Might be of interest here. It's an ofcom report into TV aerials and the publics misconceptions about aerials.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/tv/reports/dsoind/aerials_research.pdf

Hmmm. Well, didn't read through the whole 80 pages, but we still didn't have a problem with reception until they started messing around "in preparation" for the switchover.

The "ordinary" aerial worked great through the digibox and we only had the current huge monstrosity put up because the old one was bent double in a gale. "You'll be ready for full digital when it comes", said aerial man. No problems and fantastic quality when we got the 42" plasma TV with all the freeserve bits.

And then they started assing around. Despite numerous auto-searches, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 (and 90% of the other commercial freeserve channels) are nowhere to be had, except through the DVD recorder via terrestrial, and that's a shite picture.

We're getting the dish fitted sometime this week. £370 because some clown has a bright idea.

londonman wrote on Jan 13^th, 2010, 5:10pm:

they did mention poor quality cable  in the first few pages before my 2 bwain cells went to sleep

big_all wrote on Jan 13^th, 2010, 8:01pm:


I never found it! Before posting I searched for cable and only saw reference to cable as in Virgin Cable!

Dish fitted today. Nice to have all the channels back. But what's the guide that gives you the listings for ALL the freesat channels?