Hi,
I have TV supplied via cable (Virgin Media) which provides the basic channels (BBC1&2, ITV and Channel4&5). A few years ago I went with Sky (now Sky+) but decided to keep the cable supply to feed TV's in the bedrooms.
My current setup is cable feed goes into the back of the Sky+ box. The RF output from the Sky+ box is sent up into the loft where it goes into an amplifier/distribution box which then sends it to 5 other rooms. This gives me the channels supplied via cable plus whatever channel is currently being decoded on the Sky+ box.
I have just purchased a new computer monitor which also has built in Freeview receiver which I would like to make use of. I have tried just connecting it to the RF feed, not really expecting it to work, and it didnt. I was expecting to be able to receive the Cable supplied channels and the Sky+ signal but that didnt work either. I am not sure why though.
I beleive that the Freeview signals are not sent via Cable and to receive these I will need an aerial but dont really want to have seperate feeds.
Does anyone have any idea why the Sky+ RF isnt being picked up and also how I could go about combining the output from an aerial with the existing RF feed that includes the Cable channels and Sky+ channel? I assume I cannot just feed it into the amplified/distribution box as the frequencies will clash?
TIA
Alan