NTL TV Dilemma

Paul Andrews · 2006-10-09T20:26:52+00:00

OK, I'm a cheapskate. We have NTLs analogue service. I'm thinking of going digital.The TV reception around here isn't fantastic, but maybe I could go freeview with a new ariel and perhaps a booster.I'd be happy to go digital with NTL, but this is what bothers me: Currently we have an analogue box that feeds our DVD recorder and then goes onto the TV. If the NTL box is set to one channel (say ITV2), we can still pick up terrestrial TV. If we wen't digital, we'd be stuck with a single TV source wouldn't we? This would prevent us from recording one channel while watching another.I understand I could get a second set top box from NTL, but I really don't fancy paying £15 a month for that.What do people do?Paul

NTL TV Dilemma

Oct 09, 2006 22 Replies

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Bob Minchin 19 years ago

Paul, I don't have NTL digital but I don't think they have pass thru of the UHF signal.You will need a splitter (maplin have them) in the UHF feed into the digibox to tap off an analogue feed to your TV.

hth

Bob

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Dave Plowman (News) 19 years ago

You've seen *everything* that's been on TV first time around?

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Paul Andrews 19 years ago

Here's an update. Currently have ariel just sitting in our loft and the freeview box is working reasonably well. The ariel definitely needs to be resited or put on the roof (wife currently isn't too happy with me going up onto the roof). Since my wife is a teacher, one of the plusses was that she might manage to watch "teacher tv". I'm a bit miffed that while teacher TV features in the freeview channels, on freeview it's restricted to three hours a day.

Anyway, trial in progress!

Paul

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