Chorus Digital Extra Digibox

KerranJast

Before anyone starts about how crap Chorus is, I agree but I live in Cork and there's no NTL and Sky need you to have a land line for multiroom. The problem - we want to get a second digital box in our house. Supposedly when the first one was installed the technician told the crowd before us that cables under the floor would have to be dug up. Theres a white box containing a VC308 TV/FM Isolator. The cable to the digibox goes from the TV F-type connector on this. If the technician calls to install the 2nd digibox surely its just a matter of replacing the isolator with a one with dual TV F-types. Is there any reason why the technician would need access to anything else?

com7

if you want the second box in the same place yes but if its going somewhere different then another cable will have to be run from either there or outside to where the second one is going !

KerranJast

Ok. Thanks. One other question, does the Chorus analog service require a decoder box? The other option we were going to go for is to get Chorus analog along with the digital because I've seen people with the basic 14/15 channels tuned into their standard TV channels without any decoder.

bk

KerranJast wrote:

Ok. Thanks. One other question, does the Chorus analog service require a decoder box? The other option we were going to go for is to get Chorus analog along with the digital because I've seen people with the basic 14/15 channels tuned into their standard TV channels without any decoder.

That is in NTL areas, you need a decoder box to watch Chorus analogue, this is the main reason Chorus is so crap and everyone is leaving for Sky.

BTW how much will the subscription for the second box be?

The Chorus site is light on price info.

KerranJast

That is in NTL areas, you need a decoder box to watch Chorus analogue, this is the main reason Chorus is so crap and everyone is leaving for Sky.

Thats weird because I know students in Limerick with non-digital Chorus and they have around 15 channels tuned in seperately on their TVs without any decoder i.e. they don't have a single channel for Chorus like you do with the digital.

Its €10 extra pm for another digibox, €19 extra pm for an extra analog decoder (WTF? how can this be if its only for 1 tv?). That does in our multiroom plans so we're going to switch to Sky after Christmas (no need for phone for 1 digibox) and just put in a normal terestrial aerial for the bog standard four channels in the other rooms.

paulm17781

KerranJast wrote:

Thats weird because I know students in Limerick with non-digital Chorus and they have around 15 channels tuned in seperately on their TVs without any decoder i.e. they don't have a single channel for Chorus like you do with the digital.

I have seen this in Maynooth too. I had forgotten that until recently.

a bientot

now a reality.....so please stop referring to the two major cable companies in Ireland by their former names......
UPC Ireland has arrived - IT IS HERE - with headquarters in Limerick.

celticfc

a bientot wrote:

now a reality.....so please stop referring to the two major cable companies in Ireland by their former names......
UPC Ireland has arrived - IT IS HERE - with headquarters in Limerick.

No it hasn't, it was only annouced that UPC will be allowed to purchase "NTL Ireland" from the current owners (MS Irish Cable Holdings B.V., an affiliate of Morgan Stanley.)


No merger has happened yet....

paulm17781

a bientot wrote:

now a reality.....so please stop referring to the two major cable companies in Ireland by their former names......
UPC Ireland has arrived - IT IS HERE - with headquarters in Limerick.

They have not rebranded or merged yet. NTL and Chorus are their current names.....so please stop referring to the two major cable companies in Ireland by a different name.......

zuma

paulm17781 wrote:

They have not rebranded or merged yet. NTL and Chorus are their current names.....so please stop referring to the two major cable companies in Ireland by a different name.......

MMM...they have actually merged in the last couple of days!

com7

a second analouge decoder is six euro per month and they ll duplicate sports or movies to the anolouge box for you if you have digital, its not 19 euro

bk

paulm17781 wrote:

I have seen this in Maynooth too. I had forgotten that until recently.

Maybe it is only the Cork area so :mad:

paulm17781

zuma wrote:

MMM...they have actually merged in the last couple of days!

No they havn't (have they???) I think UPC have oficially purchased NTL but they have not merged them with Chorus yet. Nor have they renamed them UPC.

paulm17781

bk wrote:

Maybe it is only the Cork area so :mad:

I have seen the decoder boxes in Kerry and Cork. Chorus is the product of many mergers isn't it? Maybe it depends on who the company once were.

KerranJast

AFAIK NTL were in Cork but were bought out in the Southern region by Chorus (which must have pissed off a lot of NTL customers in Cork at the time).

a bientot

ntl (Cablelink-RTE Relays-Marlin-the Dublin 6 operator- were never in Cork.
Cork Communications -Multichannel was setup in the eighties and was run by a Dubliner who introduced the infamous decoders for all 30,000 customers in Cork city and suburbs.