[HandyMac]

Agree about split as the cable comes into the house. ISTR not long after we moved in an NTL engineer shaking his head with a tut-tut expression when he looked at the white cable coming into the lounge wallbox - we'd had a few problems with the signal, and he reckoned that whoever had wired the house had used cheapo quality cable to run to that wallbox.

OTOH the NTL feed to the wallbox in my study is literally the other side of the wall to the NTL access point outside.

I am indeed referring to an analog aerial.

Our transmitter is ally pally, 30 miles away. Even with a high-gain 18 prong aerial mounted in the loft the signal was extremely if-fy.

I regret that I'm not familiar with DVB-T, so that's something that google is going to do me a favour with right away.....

.....okay, am slightly more up to speed with DVB-T now. Looks to me to be what was coming out of my freeview box when I bought one of those. Problem was that it couldn't get enough signal to make it work reliably. Saw a few channels but blockiness everywhere was overwhelming.

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