NTL Digital - Can I also get the old analogue service?

KeRbDoG

Hey,
Im on NTL Digital (yea know the one with crappy picture due to compression?) and Im wondering can I connect up a standard analogue TV to the box and get the old analogue service?

Alun

Yes, you can, the analogue signal is still there. When they install ntl digital they usually install a splitter with one output going to the TV's RF input and the other going to the ntl box. However in my case at least, the picture on Digital is far superior to the one on analogue (which is why I got it in the first place), so I can't see any reason to do that to be honest. And if you're going to do that, why keep the ntl digital service at all?

JohnC.

That's assuming you are on cable, of course. From your location, you probably are. But if you are on MMDS, you can't do it.

Mossy Monk

you have to have analogue in order to use ntl digital

the over compression on digital channels is the big downside to digital tv

KeRbDoG

Thanks for the info lads.
Really annoying that the use such a crappy compression. Looks crap on a large screen tv

bk

kerbdog wrote:

Thanks for the info lads.
Really annoying that the use such a crappy compression. Looks crap on a large screen tv

That probably has more to do with SD versus HD. When people go off and buy really big TV's, 40" or bigger, they are always surprised when they bring it him and connect it to a SD TV transmission and they find that it sucks.

Basically in Ireland you are wasting your money buying big screen TV's until HD TV and DVD's (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD) become available.

JPA

If you use teletext you still need to use the analogue service.

Freddie59

bk wrote:

That probably has more to do with SD versus HD. When people go off and buy really big TV's, 40" or bigger, they are always surprised when they bring it him and connect it to a SD TV transmission and they find that it sucks.

Basically in Ireland you are wasting your money buying big screen TV's until HD TV and DVD's (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD) become available.

Exactly. And what a lot of people forget is that a rule of thumb also applies. The bigger the screen the further away you should be, particularly with LCD.:)

Dodge

JPA wrote:

If you use teletext you still need to use the analogue service.

Thats not true. Teletext works fine on the digital feed.

The tax man

Dodge wrote:

Thats not true. Teletext works fine on the digital feed.

Only for the main six channels on NTL dtv though.

Dodge

The tax man wrote:

Only for the main six channels on NTL dtv though.

Which are the only ones with teletext anyway?

mike65

RTE 1,2
BBC1,2
UTV
C4

Mike.