Question:
I've just moved to a flat with a shared roof aerial and an NTL socket on the wall (NOT an NTL decorder box).
The roof aerial is ok but you can't get channel 5, but I can use the ntl aerial point directly into my tv and I get all the terrestrial channels plus ITV2.
I want to get a Freeview box, but wondered if it is possible to use the NTL feed into the Freeview box rather than the roof aerial? Only because the roof aerial isn't great and I can't replace it (block of flats).
Anyone know???
Without a decoder box you won`t be able to get the analogue anyway will you? Even if you can, I think NTL mess with the channel orderings, so you might find that the digital muxes are missing or interfered with by other analogue ntl channels.
Chris
You can pickup all the standard channels fine throguh this 'aerial' input *without* the decoder box, obviously no sky sports etc.
I just wondered if anyone had tried to use a freeview box with this type of connection as I have no way of upgrading my (slightly ropey) roof aerial...?
Or could some nice person try it for me? :) :) :)
Sadly, it doesn't work : I tried this when I first bought onDigital all those years ago, and the ntl feed will not work with a digibox.
Sadly, you need an aerial for Freeview :(
You could try ringing ntl and see whether they'll do you any decent deals ;)
NTL broardcast the main channels (BBC, ITV etc) in normal anologue that any TV can decode as well as their own digital channels using their own comprssion and signal to make sure you need a NTL box to decode it and therfore have to pay NTL. They do not broardcast the digital signal for freeview down their cables as there is no point .
However there is a use for the cable. It also sends radio signals, and although ther frequencies are in a completely different order you can get most stations with perfect recrption. The nice NTL man fixed this up in my brothers room when he had a cable modem installed. :)
The roof aerial is ok but you can't get channel 5, but I can use the ntl aerial point directly into my tv and I get all the terrestrial channels plus ITV2.
I want to get a Freeview box, but wondered if it is possible to use the NTL feed into the Freeview box rather than the roof aerial? Only because the roof aerial isn't great and I can't replace it (block of flats).
Anyone know???
Answers:
Without a decoder box you won`t be able to get the analogue anyway will you? Even if you can, I think NTL mess with the channel orderings, so you might find that the digital muxes are missing or interfered with by other analogue ntl channels.
Chris
Answers:
You can pickup all the standard channels fine throguh this 'aerial' input *without* the decoder box, obviously no sky sports etc.
I just wondered if anyone had tried to use a freeview box with this type of connection as I have no way of upgrading my (slightly ropey) roof aerial...?
Or could some nice person try it for me? :) :) :)
Answers:
Sadly, it doesn't work : I tried this when I first bought onDigital all those years ago, and the ntl feed will not work with a digibox.
Sadly, you need an aerial for Freeview :(
You could try ringing ntl and see whether they'll do you any decent deals ;)
Answers:
NTL broardcast the main channels (BBC, ITV etc) in normal anologue that any TV can decode as well as their own digital channels using their own comprssion and signal to make sure you need a NTL box to decode it and therfore have to pay NTL. They do not broardcast the digital signal for freeview down their cables as there is no point .
However there is a use for the cable. It also sends radio signals, and although ther frequencies are in a completely different order you can get most stations with perfect recrption. The nice NTL man fixed this up in my brothers room when he had a cable modem installed. :)
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