So what do you reckon...

Still got no TV at my apartment, but with 2 elections that I'd like to have followed and lots of news that I have missed the TV view of things, I'm getting a bit tired of it.

To recap:
I have one aerial wall socket (normal RF plug) that apparently carries normal free-to-air TV and a satellite feed for sky digital. The free-to-air is fucking terrible. I bought a freeview satellite receiver through tardme because it was cheap so therefore a decent temporary fix (not interested in freeview HD atm for a multitude of reasons, but mainly the expense) but have had issues getting it to work, gave up fairly quickly.

Anyway, rung the (offsite) building manager today who said I need to get a technician in to check that my wall socket isn't buggered first because they got all their equipment upgraded last year, so it must be my end.

I imagine the callout won't be cheap. Maybe the wall thing is busted. Maybe my satellite receiver was a dud. Maybe I shouldn't bother with satellite because the tech will point out some reason why it wouldn't work anyway. So maybe I should just suck it in buy a bloody freeview HD reciever. Or maybe I'll discover that that doesn't work either because the signal is so bad from the wall, meaning I'll need a tech anyway... You can see why I have put it in the too hard basket.

Yes I'm being as cheap as possible, because I'm trying to save money atm, not waste it on stupid shit that should already be working...

What course of action should I take?

Process of elimination.

Take said sat receiver to neighbour who has sky working and ask if you can swap them briefly to see if it is the receiver. Alternatively ask to borrow their receiver and plug it into your wall.

You say you have two wall plugs? is one a screw on one?
With a cable like this:

Surely a buggered tv jack is the landlord's responsibility? Let him/her follow it up.

Yeah probably is pfunk, but I might just try to get it sorted myself and ask the property management what they can do later.

Bob, nah it's just a single plug, and the normal RF type, not the screw one (whatever that one is called), but apparently it carries both signals - no wonder the analogue one sucks really...

I don't know any of my neighbours, buuut I just realised that my mother has sky, so next time I'm down there I'm going to try plugging my sat box in there, make sure it's not just that that's buggered.

Then I guess it's the tech....?

Wouldnt that mean its standard UHF sky then?

ie a non sat feed?

garethw reckons his place has the same set up if i recall correctly.

i have no idea how that works myself.

nup, there is a big dish on the roof, apparently for sky, and a room full of hardware mixing it all up somewhere..

tried an indoor UHF and Freeview HD.

You can just buy it from dick smith, and if it doesn't work you can take it back

Well I would suspect it's actually a little box about the size of a set top box but yeah. It's all sorcery if you ask me.

heh but a room full of hardware sounds more impressive... forgot for a sec that I was talking to people of the tech forum

Someone else posted that this works surprisingly well.

well I tested my satellite receiver on a sky set-up today, and it works fine. So it's not my equipment. One down...

www.tvtorrents.com - much easier.

That's illegal copyright infringement you're suggesting.