andyball
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after rubbish reception with a saucer aerial branded "weekend super" & needing a new tv since boat original only picks up foreign programs, we've been down the flatscreen/new aerial/freeview road.
Old aerial was easily improved upon by replacing it with a short length of wire, which splendidly even allowed freeview to work, as long as the tide wasn't too low. This made us laugh at our many home neighbours who've laid out £100's for "freeview" aerials after local installer presumably told them it was vital.
Now replaced with Status 315 omni-directional one (cheaper at towsure, £90-95 at local caravan shops), which is a great improvement, but think a directional one wd be better if you only wanted telly in a marina berth so could point it the right way.
Now find analogue channels reliable, but ghosty picture; freeview superb picture/sound, except some channels at low tide. Will replace old/rubbish cable next.
Found a combined lcd/freeview tv, so no separate box, which made fitting easy (check that it receives analogue too, if you might ever need it to...) & wall mounted it using a £25 bracket from <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.chaseavdirect.co.uk/acatalog/LCD-Mounts.html>chase av direct</A> which is removeable yet can be locked into place with a long allen key. bracket could do with extra wall mounting screw holes if into thinnish ply, but there's room for this.
So now have cool widescreen tv, wife v.pleased as she could watch sunday's grand prix in style, now wondering about using the pc monitor ability to show a chartplotter screen.
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Old aerial was easily improved upon by replacing it with a short length of wire, which splendidly even allowed freeview to work, as long as the tide wasn't too low. This made us laugh at our many home neighbours who've laid out £100's for "freeview" aerials after local installer presumably told them it was vital.
Now replaced with Status 315 omni-directional one (cheaper at towsure, £90-95 at local caravan shops), which is a great improvement, but think a directional one wd be better if you only wanted telly in a marina berth so could point it the right way.
Now find analogue channels reliable, but ghosty picture; freeview superb picture/sound, except some channels at low tide. Will replace old/rubbish cable next.
Found a combined lcd/freeview tv, so no separate box, which made fitting easy (check that it receives analogue too, if you might ever need it to...) & wall mounted it using a £25 bracket from <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.chaseavdirect.co.uk/acatalog/LCD-Mounts.html>chase av direct</A> which is removeable yet can be locked into place with a long allen key. bracket could do with extra wall mounting screw holes if into thinnish ply, but there's room for this.
So now have cool widescreen tv, wife v.pleased as she could watch sunday's grand prix in style, now wondering about using the pc monitor ability to show a chartplotter screen.
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