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I think you will find that now all the country has switched over to digital, any TV supplied through the bollard will be freeview (i.e. not just the "normal 5 channels" that you mention) so as long as your TV has a digital tuner in it (which it will do if it's less than a few years old) you will pick up all the freeview channels available just by retuning it once you have connected the arial lead to the bollard, just like your arial and TV at home. If your TV is an old style analogue TV you will of course need a freeview box. Some parts of the country don't have the full range of freeview channels available, but something called "freeview lite" which is about 18 of the more popular channels.
It is just possible that the site will provide satellite based TV through the bollards especially if they are in a freeview blackspot. Unless I'm mistaken I think in these circumstances they do something to the signal so that all TVs can tune in to it, not just those with a freesat or other satellite tuner - I seem to remember this happening to us on one site several years ago in the days of analogue TV and we picked up the channels fine just be tuning in the TV as normal.
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Topic: TV Connection / Freesat
