House Television Reception

Time to go via Free-sat or perhaps Sky methinks. Although where I am we have had no probs. of late.

Location is often the cause of weak terrestrial signal strength and or quality of signal. Even down to adjacent houses having differing issues. We have a  Freesat box with wireless internet capacity which turns ours into a Smart TV. It's all we need and also take this in the van. There is also a recorder version available.

https://www.freesat.co.uk/get-freesat/boxes/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIreD3557H3wIV773tCh3_3QX3EAAYASAAEgJYmfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

We have one of these on the corner of the windowsill behind the curtain near the TV - very expensive at around £4 I think. 

I have the Sony Bravia Android TV DK, no issues with HD channels. Then again East Yorkshire is flat with nothing obstructive from the mast to my aerial. The TV regularly informs me it’s upgrading to include further channels(150 at last update) which are mainly regular channels with +1 in front, why?, the catchups are enough👍🏻😊

North Bucks and Beds are hardly mountainous!!!!  It sounds as if we have similar TV's as mine has the Android system. What I  find both annoying and confusing is that for short periods I can get a perfect picture but within minutes it can disappear. No amount of retuning or factory resets changes this. We do have a bank of trees maybe three hundred metres away in the direct line of the aerial  but I would be surprised they would be causing the problem, especially as they are currently de-leafed? The Freesat option looks increasing the way to go as the dish will have a clear view of the sky.

Thanks to everyone else who has contributed.

David

Living in the north of Lincolnshire,  albeit in the Wolds, not particulary mountainous, and close to the Belmont mast we, and some fellow neighbours had issues similar to those described plus several missing channels. This did improve a little over time mind but it's still not as good as other villages close to us. A local installer of aerials and dishes tells us that no amount of money thrown at new or 'better' aerials will improve the situation. It's down to topography and other issues beyond the householders control. Freesat was the answer for us.

I watch the HD BBC news on 107, we have no problems with the channels you mention David.

Our aerial is our original one put up when we moved in 30+ years back.