Sky & Freeview on the same tv?

[smiley rulez]

hi i've just purchased a new panasonic plasma tv and i want to know how to switch between freeview and sky because at the moment it says i haven't got an aerial connected to my tv.

so all i need to know is how to get a signal with my analogue aerial and sky dish.

[Leon]

To watch sky select AV1 or HDMI or any other input you may have sky set up on. to watch freeview select TV and then just change the channel on the TV.

[smiley rulez]

thx 4 the reply but it says i have no aerial connected.

[dms05]

Was the aerial working OK on the previous TV? Have you changed anything anywhere?

You may have a short in the aerial connector. I'd start by taking that to pieces and checking carefully that no fine wires from the outer shielding are connected to the central thick wire carrying the signal. Best bet is to cut off about 3cm of the coax and restart again.

[Isitme]

To get Freeview you will need an external digital aerial, the Sky dish will not work and an old aerial, if it works at all will be very poor.

[bryan]

thx 4 the reply but it says i have no aerial connected.

you need to plug the aerial (analogue) into the Sky digibox, there is a socket for this. Have you done this?

You can plug the aerial into the back of the TV to test it without the Digibox.

[Proppinupthebar]

To get Freeview you will need an external digital aerial, the Sky dish will not work and an old aerial, if it works at all will be very poor.

There is no such thing in TV in the UK as a digital aerial. The Sky LNB and your rooftop aerial are both picking up analogue signals carrying digital information.

It sounds to me that the TV needs the aerial plugged in and then the TV needs to be told to tune itself in (installation menu).

[Isitme]

I bow to your superior knowledge, but if that is the case, what is this -
Labgear HG420W/S Wide Band High Gain Digital Aerial 15dB - Screwfix.com, Where the Trade Buys

I understood that analogue broadcasting was being phased out and that some parts of the country were already 'all digital'. The Scottish Borders being one area.

I have mine plugged straight into the TV which allows me to watch live freeview while recording 2 programs on Sky.

[Woodster]

A fully digital compatible aerial is just a wideband aerial, nothing more, nothing less!!

[Proppinupthebar]

A fully digital compatible aerial is just a wideband aerial, nothing more, nothing less!!

Exactly right.
Digital Terrestrial Television services in the UK had to be shoe horned into the existing spectrum, which meant that for the vast majority of the UK, DTT is not in the same narrow band of frequencies the existing aerial picks up and requires a wideband antenna. As I've already said digital TV in all forms, requires analogue modulation to transmit it.