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the antenna sockets in my mums block of flats had been disconnected from any kind of aerial a long time ago apparently when i asked the workman about it because she couldn't tune any of the channels when they swapped the broadcast signals around a few years ago in her area. she just makes do with what channels it can find now.
our house has no antenna as there was a rusted sky dish up when we moved in that we binned only to find out we can't get reception on an indoor antenna because apparently most modern windows have a film coating on them these days that block the signal. we just stream and download everything instead.
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My MIL has a couple of aerial sockets in the living room. One doesn't get anything, the other gets HD Freeview so assume parts of it must be relatively recent.
It won't be anything she did herself so must be some kind of communal thing.
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It might also be worth looking at this
https://www.freely.co.uk/
Freeview through broadband rather than TV.
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Our tv reception is crap. As I see it the bad reception might be the ancient, loosy goosy cable, or the ancient, equally slack socket, or internal wiring, or (we live on a council estate) wherever that cable goes after, presumably some kind of antenna for the block? we don’t have our own antenna/dish.
Given all these possibilities, is it worth me trying a new cable?
Can someone who has experience of council estate tv connections tell me I am wrong/right about my assumption about a block antenna? Many thanks!!! ps. This is not an invitation for people to tell me get fancy tv. We have freeview and are happy with the minimum, just not nothing 🤣