The next step in the home cinema build is getting a decent Freeview antenna. I already have Freesat gear, but the kitchen really needs a freeview set, plus there’s still content on Freeview that has yet to make it onto DVB-S.

In looking around for a decent antenna, I found a rather good site run by someone who obviously knows their stuff and confirmed my suspicions that there’s no such thing as a digital aerial. I’m well within the Sutton Coldfield transmitter footprint and as such a decent Log40 antenna should do me fine. From the roof, I even have line-of-sight to the transmitter, which is somewhat of a bonus :-)

I’ve also chucked £15 at a dedicated DAB dipole. If my experiments with in-car DAB were anything to go by, a decent antenna will pay dividends. I’m a complete DAB laggard, however if I’m going to be on the roof I may as well stick an antenna up there for it.

ATV seem to sell all the right bits at the requisite quality for an install that isn’t going to fail within a couple of years, so it’s probably worth checking them out.