So I have cable in my house but in my room I get the analogue digital cable, or well I used to. Is there some way to use this in order to get digital tv? Just hook it into a freeview box or something? Using a big old CRT tv and as u can tell im a tad confused!
Missed the tv switchover, what do i do?
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My head just exploded
i was confused by this too.
O.P needs to get a new box from his cable supplier
Sorry recently had surgery and appears to have made me a complete spack. I meant i get virgin media, and got analogue tv through a cable that was not connected to the v-box or whatever its called. The analogue feed was just for use on my bedroom tv.
Seems I need to sort out an extra box from virgin then, cheers!
Seems I need to sort out an extra box from virgin then, cheers!
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You could hook a digital free view box straight into your tv using an arial. I didn't think you could get cable over an analogue stream, I thought it was all digital.
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Does the other end of the cable lead to an outside arial by any chance? If so, get a digital freeview box.
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I can't really understand what you are on about but you just plug a freeview box into your current TV arial or get a digital TV.
However is this bit of coax cable connected up to an arial or does it freed from your cable box?
However is this bit of coax cable connected up to an arial or does it freed from your cable box?
Presumably their postcode is on the earth's surface so they can get Freesat.
Or the price of every Freeview box could be increased to cover the extra transmitters need to reach the ~10% of people who won't be able to get it after the switchover.
Your parents should be glad they don't live in the US which nearly turned off the analogue signals in iirc 2008 when only a fraction of the country could get digital.
Stupid = British indeed.
LOL you zinged me good, HAW HAW.
Freeview set-top boxes don't work there. I know this, because I only moved out 6 months ago and had tried it many times. Going to the Freeview website states it's unavailable in that area, and plugging the freeview box in regardless results in nothing at all.
Just checked again, in case something has changed since i last tried.
I've never heard of Freesat, although it would appear that they'd also need to buy a sattelite dish and get some guy to come round and drill into the side of their house for it to work. I guess the government wont pay for that out of the TV license or owt.
Can't imagine how it would affect people who genuinely cant afford such things or dont have the ability to organise it.
Yep a dish is required, however you can use a Sky digital dish if the property has had one in the past (which is what I did - cancelled the Sky sub and just bought a Freesat HD recorder box).
There has been quite a bit of notice given over the last few years about the switchover and a free phone number for those that need help
Unless it turned off on the 20th/25th (take a look at this to see when digital TV is switched off in your area) it could be that Virgin have switched off the analogue signal they send with the other stuff but that the Freeview signal hasn't been boosted in your area yet as the analogue terrestrial signal still exists, hence why the freeview checker is still saying you can't get it.
Either way your best bet is to just get another Virgin box. Not sure how much that'd cost though.
Either way your best bet is to just get another Virgin box. Not sure how much that'd cost though.
Aye, IIRC VM have been switching off all analogue services over their cable network for the past couple of years, as they used to provide channels 1-4 unencrypted (which could be picked up via a bypass on their installs and acted as an aerial for normal TV's*).
However a freeview box is useless with the VM cable as it's a completely different digital signal to the Cable Digital.
From memory a mirror subbed box with VM costs something like £5 a month to rent, and if you're on the Large or XL pack you can pay to get a HD box (something like £50 install, then the same monthly price as a normal additional box).
*From memory their analogue boxes often came with the bypass, but they stopped supplying them in about 05 for digital boxes.
However a freeview box is useless with the VM cable as it's a completely different digital signal to the Cable Digital.
From memory a mirror subbed box with VM costs something like £5 a month to rent, and if you're on the Large or XL pack you can pay to get a HD box (something like £50 install, then the same monthly price as a normal additional box).
*From memory their analogue boxes often came with the bypass, but they stopped supplying them in about 05 for digital boxes.
I think an alternative would be to buy a cable box second hand (either a Virgin box or any other DVB-C box) as the channels you would have been getting before are free to air on cable so you shouldn't need a viewing card for them. You can check which channels are available by taking the card out of the existing Virgin box and seeing what still works.
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Freesat is for people that can't get Freeview.
Honestly the government has done more than enough, sux u gotta spend at max 100 quid every 20 years for a new arial/dish.
come on, get a grip.
Honestly the government has done more than enough, sux u gotta spend at max 100 quid every 20 years for a new arial/dish.
come on, get a grip.
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