Hey folks!

For the last few months, i've been running with MySkyHdi, 2 boxes with a multiroom setup, with all channels except rugby channel... but a combination of poor service from Sky, (6 seperate engineer visits in 2 months!) and getting messed around with pricing etc (was origanally quoted $115 all in for the above, it ended up being nearer $160..) I decided to leave them !

Long and the short of it, I barely watch TV, and the stuff the wife watches, is either on terrestrial, or I download off the net...

I brought 2 TV's across with me from the UK, 1 x 47" 1080p LCD, and a 32"1080i LCD. both of which have analogue tuners..

The 32" Acer picks up standard channels fine, with a bit of "fuzziness" on TV2..
The 47" gets the picture fine, but plays no sound at all, from any channel....

At this point, I thought I know, I'll go out and get a freeview hard drive recorder box, as that's what we had over in the UK, and having a small child, being able to hit pause and record / watch programs whenever you are fantastic features....

After a little digging on the internet, I discovered that I can infact get HD on Freeview, but not recording (yet)... so off I pop to Dick Smith's to pick up one of their home brand HD boxes...

I get the box home, plug it in... interface comes up fine through hdmi etc... but the box receives no signal at all from the aeriel.. I thought i'd got a dud box.. so, got it swapped, and got exactly the same....

From what I can tell, this could be because I've got a UHF aeriel on the roof, and not a VHF ?, (i'm sure there are both up there, but where the hell the cables go is a different matter (rented house))

So, for now, I took back the HD Freeview box, and got a Satellite one so we can at least watch TV...

I guess what I'd like a bit of advice on is;

Is there a way (without using a media pc) to have a hard drive recorder HD Freeview box? (i.e. imported from UK etc ?)
Am I down the right path with the UHF / VHF aeriel ?
Should I be

Using the Sat freeview box at the moment, it's like i've gone back to the early 90's with the first Sky box i had in the uk :), nostalgic, but ugly ! :)