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Permalink Reply by Biggles on April 16, 2014 at 22:20

If you don't get HD coverage then you just need to disconnect the Freeview Satellite box from your old TV and plug it into your new TV.

If you want Freeview on both TVs then you need a Satellite box for each TV and connect the dish to both via a splitter or daisy chain the boxes if they have the capability. You won't be able to get HD as Satellite is SD.

Permalink Reply by Rosemary Brown on April 17, 2014 at 8:32

Rosemary Brown said:  I have connected the freeview box to the HD tv but it says weak signal and auto run for channels etc and it always says about the signal.  We don't get the HD signal here so the freeview box that we have we purchased for the older tv that we threw out.  Do I need to get a new freeview HD receiver box?  The one that we have is S7070 Freeview and we have had that for a couple of years but is not the right one now to have for a HD TV?

Biggles said:

If you don't get HD coverage then you just need to disconnect the Freeview Satellite box from your old TV and plug it into your new TV.

If you want Freeview on both TVs then you need a Satellite box for each TV and connect the dish to both via a splitter or daisy chain the boxes if they have the capability. You won't be able to get HD as Satellite is SD.

Permalink Reply by Rosemary Brown on April 17, 2014 at 10:16

I have the tv going.  I found by putting it onto AV source it works just fine on the freebox S7070. So I don't need to do the freeview inbuilt tuner thing apparently. 

Permalink Reply by Biggles on April 17, 2014 at 15:04

Well done for correctly connecting to A/V on the TV. Best results will be by connecting via HDMI or Component if the STB has such outputs. You don't need a Freeview HD box for a new TV as the FreeviewHD tuner is built-in. You only need a Freview Satellite box for a new TV if you can't receive FreeviewHD.

Have you tried entering your address here to confirm you can't get FreeviewHD?

http://www.freeviewnz.tv/coverage.aspx?pdf-maps=/userfiles/pdfs/Hay...

It's best to get HD if possible because satellite is only SD and the difference is very noticeable. However it depends on your location.

This site will explain it all.

http://www.freeviewnz.tv/freeview.aspx

Rosemary Brown said:

I have the tv going.  I found by putting it onto AV source it works just fine on the freebox S7070. So I don't need to do the freeview inbuilt tuner thing apparently.