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NTL box moving to Chorus area, will it work

  • 31-03-2007 10:08am
    #1
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    I have a friend who is moving to Carlow town, he has an NTL box (standard cable receiver), the newly built house he is moving to has Chorus cable installed.


    Can he just connect up the NTL box and be able to receive the Free to air channels.


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  • #2
    Solair
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    It's highly unlikely it will work. Even though they may now be the same company, Chorus and NTL's platforms are still completely seperate. Even within the Chorus or NTL networks there would be a number of seperate "headends" so, a chorus box in Cork wouldn't necessarily function in Limerick.

    There's also really no such thing as a "standard cable receiver". Different networks use slightly different standards and they're all configured differently.

    The networks also control the boxes i.e. they can address the box and tell it which channels to display, configure it etc. The network headend in Carlow will not be able to talk to an NTL box and a Chorus Carlow box would be useless on the NTL network in Dublin.

    Also, you need a chorus smart card etc.

    Also, NTL/UPC own the box, you have to give it back if you're moving outside the area and unsubscribing. You do not own it.

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    If there are unencrypted analogue channels on the Chorus cable network in chorus, you will be able to tune into them by plugging a TV directly into the cable socket without any box.

    As far as I know, its only Cork where a box is absolutely always required i.e. Cork's cable network (pre chorus days) had fully encrypted analogue signals using a US-style Jerrold cable box. It's less of an ordeal in Cork moving people to digital as it's just a "box upgrade" i.e. you always had to have one.

    For the full digital line up, you would have to contact chorus and get them to provide a set top box.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    Thanks for that solair, that's what I suspected.

    I just needed a second opinion.

    Also there is no guarantee that the cable is terminated at the other end.


  • #4
    Solair
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    I know in Cork Chorus generally encrypts everything except RTE 1, 2 and the local channel / chorus sports.

    Thus, if you connect a TV to the cable socket you soon find out you should subscribe as it provides you with teasers :)


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