Cheapest way to receive DVB-T2 signals???

DJHB1980DJHB1980 Member Posts: 168 ✭✭
edited 6 March 2017, 10:48PM in Support
What is the cheapest way to receive the DVB-T2 signals, basically the HD as well as SD,

obviously u can get them on FreeView HD TV's and boxes

Is there any adapter or input that is cheap enough to distribute in large quantities?
for us to switch to DVB-T2 sooner & leave no one behind.
Thus allowing everyone to receive ALL channels

I know the sale of TV's now must ALL be FreeView HD enabled, which is a good thing, but tv's passed on and sold from person to person via eBay etc are not counted.

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  • RoyRoy Member, Super User Posts: 17,812 ✭✭✭
    edited 6 March 2017, 10:48PM
    LMGTFY:-

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_pg_...

    Any number of £20 boxes there will do it.

    Very niche requirement of course; these can only benefit HD TVs without an HD tuner, as last seen about 2009.

    Non-HD TVs might as well stick to SD; and as you say, recent HD TVs all have HD tuners anyway.

    But it's a very generous offer you are making here, DJHB1980; shall I send you my address, so you can ship mine to me? :-)
    ‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ Wm Morris
  • DJHB1980DJHB1980 Member Posts: 168 ✭✭
    edited 5 March 2017, 2:28PM
    So basically just FreeView HD boxes???
    Was hoping for something easier or more technologically better.
    Never mind.
  • alal Member, Super User Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭
    edited 19 February 2017, 11:39PM
    DJHB1980 said:

    So basically just FreeView HD boxes???
    Was hoping for something easier or more technologically better.
    Never mind.

    It sounds like you want a box to receive around six DVB-T2 muxes and convert each TV channel in them from MPEG4 to MPEG2 and modulate at DVB-T. A bit like a device that was used to convert some digital channels to analogue used after DSO.
    It would probably cost more than a new UHD tv.
  • VisionmanVisionman Member, Super User Posts: 10,303 ✭✭✭
    edited 20 February 2017, 1:37AM
    DJHB1980 said:

    So basically just FreeView HD boxes???
    Was hoping for something easier or more technologically better.
    Never mind.

    At least they are no longer forcing digital only radio on people anymore, involving the binning of millions of perfectly working and serviceable analog radios. What a stupid idea that was...
    This spectrum change though, involves money, and billions at that. And thats the only motivation behind it. 
    I'm now happy with the disagree icon, because its gone.
  • RoyRoy Member, Super User Posts: 17,812 ✭✭✭
    edited 6 March 2017, 10:48PM
    DJHB1980

    The vast majority of broadcast TV watching by people with HD TVs is of SD anyway.

    At the analogue to digital switchover, all the holdouts with analogue-only TVs were given a digital set top box, and shown how to use it.

    Some sort of dongle might have been cheaper, but likely there could never have been a one-dongle-fits-all, and it would have been harder to use, and not had the existing help and repair infrastructure.

    I think we may assume that the set top box route came out as the cheapest option overall, and I see no reason that would differ for HD.

    But, for the reasons I have stated above, what would be the purpose of pursuing this?
    ‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ Wm Morris
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