As free-view boxes currently receive their signal through our terrestrial aerials it obviously uses an analogue signal, whats going to happen to all these free-view boxes once the analogue signal is switched off?
2007-04-14 04:46:26 · 6 answers · asked by kensta78 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
I do realise that they are supposedly digital, but a digital signal cant be sent or received by an aerial on the outside of your house. You would either need a cable connection or a satellite dish. Many people dont seem to follow the point i am trying to make here.
2007-04-14 04:55:30 · update #1
Unfortunately, your assumptions are totally wrong. The Freeview signal received by a roof mounted aerial IS digital, sent from a digital transmitter.
This is the main reason for all the government sponsored adverts about Freeview - to get as many people as possible to buy Freeview boxes or TVs, so that when the analogue signal is switched off, everyone can still watch the telly.
Please check out the links below, which will confirm what I have said.
2007-04-14 06:43:40 · answer #1 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freeview boxes are digital not analogue.
Edit -
"Many people dont seem to follow the point i am trying to make here.".... I think we all follow the point, it's just that your point is fundamentally incorrect. The normal aerial on the outside of your house picks up digital signals and sends it to your Freeview box, why do you think you plug your aerial cable into it with the output going to your TV. Also if your normal aerial didn't work as you say, everyone would have to have a cable or a satellite dish installation performed when you buy a Freeview box, which you don't.
2007-04-14 11:49:10 · answer #2 · answered by Harry Callaghan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A TV aerial is perfectly capable of receiving a digital signal.
The only difference with a digital signal is it's a square waveform as opposed to a sine wave. A sine wave is an infinite number of voltages within a set range where as the digital square wave is two voltages, both can be received by any aerial that is suitable for the wavelength of the signal, and digital TV signals are within the wavelength range that a TV aerial can react to.
2007-04-14 15:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by randombushmonkey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if the digital signal is cleaned up and boosted significantly enough the freeview box will still receive digital broadcasts through the ariel (analogue), how do you think people get bbc3 on freeview for instnace using only a free view dish?
2007-04-14 11:59:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes they will as freeview use digital signals only
2007-04-14 11:49:53 · answer #5 · answered by Stu pid 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They should still work because they recieve digital signals.
2007-04-14 11:49:29 · answer #6 · answered by Salsoul 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋