Upgrading from Chorus Analog to Digital

bigbru

Hi All

Newbie here, and I have been searching the forums for an answer to my query, to no avail.

Here goes.
I currently have Chorus Analog coming into my house. The line comes into the house to a central point under the stairs and I have put a 3 way splitter on it, so it runs to the living room and 2 bedrooms.
I'm fed up with the lack of quality on analog and want to upgrade to digital.

I have a few questions:
- will the Chorus installer find my splitter and get narked by it?
- can I get the digital channels into the 2 bedrooms (or even 1 of the bedrooms)?
- or is there any way to keep just the analog running to the 2 bedrooms?
- Will the analog be switched off when the service is switched to digital?
- how much to Chorus charge for multiroom if I do end up having to (reluctantly) pay them..?

Any ideas on how best to do this would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

RangeR

bigbru wrote:

- how much to Chorus charge for multiroom if I do end up having to (reluctantly) pay them..?

This is the only one I can answer. Multiroom Chorus was €5. They have upped their prices to €7.50 as of yesterday. Still a far cry cheaper than Sky multiroom but €7.50 more expensive that what you have already.

I've never used Chorus analog. Got their Digital and multiroom products about 6 months ago. Picture quality is fine but no great shakes. Suffers from a little distortion from time to time but nothing to get hot and bothered about.

Multiroom may also incur an additional installation charge. €50 I think. This is a once off. Not sure if it's per room.

bigbru

Thanks IrishTLR.

Anyone else got any more info?

Streete

Hi,

I too would be interested in any additional info people might have on this. My parents are set up in a similar way with Chrous analogue and a splitter feeding a number of rooms. For Christmas I thougt I'd get the auld fella a sub to Sky Sports via the existing analogue service. I forgot they were not multi room subscribers.

Will the installer only visit the sitting room to install the analogue decoder? Will he be bothered about the existing setup if he spots it? To be honest they would much prefer to keep the multi room exisitng set-up if it meant not getting the sports. I am bricking it now that I might have messed things up for them.

Any thoughts would be welcome.

decob

well a few years ago when i went about getting sky sports on my (parents) existing chorus analogue sub. An engineer in chorus told me that they know that people have the signal split in their houses, and given that some of these splits happened pre-chorus owning the company that supplied the cable in that area... there is nothing they can or will do about it..

Then the guy who came to 'install' (well plug a cable adapter onto the cable that came into the house) was a contractor and didn't have any problems putting the adapter on the cable before the split, thus enabling all the connections with sky sports.

Jumpy

bigbru wrote:

Hi All

Newbie here, and I have been searching the forums for an answer to my query, to no avail.

Here goes.
I currently have Chorus Analog coming into my house. The line comes into the house to a central point under the stairs and I have put a 3 way splitter on it, so it runs to the living room and 2 bedrooms.
I'm fed up with the lack of quality on analog and want to upgrade to digital.

I have a few questions:
- will the Chorus installer find my splitter and get narked by it?
- can I get the digital channels into the 2 bedrooms (or even 1 of the bedrooms)?
- or is there any way to keep just the analog running to the 2 bedrooms?
- Will the analog be switched off when the service is switched to digital?
- how much to Chorus charge for multiroom if I do end up having to (reluctantly) pay them..?

Any ideas on how best to do this would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Splitters cause a degradation in signal. Your poor quality is most likely down to this.

Digital is encrypted, you will need a decoder box for each room. I dont think they will allow the analogue connection to remain.

Jumpy

decob wrote:

well a few years ago when i went about getting sky sports on my (parents) existing chorus analogue sub. An engineer in chorus told me that they know that people have the signal split in their houses, and given that some of these splits happened pre-chorus owning the company that supplied the cable in that area... there is nothing they can or will do about it..

Then the guy who came to 'install' (well plug a cable adapter onto the cable that came into the house) was a contractor and didn't have any problems putting the adapter on the cable before the split, thus enabling all the connections with sky sports.

this will not work with digital.

quad_red

if you split the signal AFTER the digibox then you'll all have to watch the same digital channels.

If you split the signal BEFORE the digibox then you'll have digital channels only at the tv with the digibox and standard analogue at the tvs without a digibox.

Hence, if you want the ability to watch digital (on different channels) at the different tvs you'll have to get digiboxes for each tv. If ya know what I mean.

bigbru

So what I'm hoping is that the installer fits the digibox to my living room TV, without going near the line under the stairs.
As far as he's concerned, there is only 1 TV point, and that's on the wall in the living room.

I suppose the important issue is whether the analog signal continues coming into the house on the line. If it does, then that's me sorted.

Can anyone tell me if they cut off the analog when they activate the digital service? Or does the TV fitted with the digibox still pick up the analog as well as the digital channels?

towger

Hi,

I switched to Chorus digital a few years ago.
The engineer paid no heed to the fact I have 3 ( analogue ) connections.
After the install of Digital you still have your analog .... great for looking at analog in another room or recording a different channel than you are watching ( note, even at the digital point you still have analog too )
As somebody above said splitting degrades the signal .... use a good splitter.

bigbru

Thanks Towger!

That's exactly the info I wanted to hear. Analog is grand in the other rooms.

bigbru

Just in case this info might ne useful, I called Chorus and ordered the digital service.
I asked them if the analog signal would still come into the house, they said yes, for another €4 /month.

It's worth €4 a month for me to have the analog going into the other 2 rooms.
Total monthly cost, €31.99 on dd.