Hi there,

We have MySky HDI.   But we seem to spend all our time watching TV2 or Prime, or TVNZ on demand or Netflix.  The kids don't really watch the cartoon channels anymore.

 We have a TV that has freeview built into it, but I have no idea what kind: Sony Bravia KDL 40E X500     " Integrated FreeviewHD Digital Tuner".  other than that we just have the Panasonic Blu-ray and usual playstations and wii's etc.

We have a dish on the house, we also have an aerial that I've never used.

Today I plugged in a cable (that works) from the aerial out into the back of the TV and I flicked through the channels.  It came up with the channel names like Maori TV, Prime, TV3+1 etc but said "no signal".  Do you think the aerial is probably broken and that is why there is no signal?  The aerial has been on the house for over 10 years.  The bedroom has an outlet for the aerial that used to have an old TV plugged into it but it got only very fuzzy reception of only one channel from it.  I don't know what UHF is, but maybe it is not a UHF aerial?  I honestly don't know jack about this sort of stuff.

Even if it did work, we want to be able to record shows using series link etc.  Our TV can't record things.

What would you recommend would be a good set up for us?  We want to be able to record series, we watch a lot of online stuff, we're fine with the channels Freeview offers, we watch mostly Prime and TV2.   I've been into stores but they just want to sell you the most expensive box they have, they don't really listen to what you need or have at home.  I said I had an aerial, they said it would work and to just buy the box and take it home, but it doesn't work with my current Freeview TV, so.....

We do have a dish.  But my undestanding is that if you use the dish you don't get all the channels?

Any advice would be great.