Chorus multiroom

Mags78

Hi guys,

Hope I'm in the right place for this question.

I've just rented a room in a house with a woman. She has chorus digital in the living room and said I could have her old (analogue?) box for my bedroom. It only has a few channels on it.

But I have no idea how to connect it. The only lead on the Chorus box is the plug. I need to connect the chorus box, my portable tv, and the tv point in the wall.

Does anyone know what I need?

I'm not good with technical terms but I can follow instructions!

Thanks.

paulm17781

A couple of coaxial cables at a guess.

Solair

There's no one standard chorus network, so I don't know what the analogue setup you have is.

If it's one of the old Jerrold boxes in Cork you'll need a cable with an F-connector at either end (same as a satellite box)

Just connect it like this:

<Cable Socket><Decoder><TV>

You'll need cables with F-connectors (screw on type, same as used for satellite boxes) and you'll usually need a cable that goes from the F-connector output on the decoder to the normal push-in coax connector on the TV.

Ask any tv shop, they'll figure it out. Even bring the box with you if you're not sure.

One other thing, is she sure that she still has an active chorus analogue subscription?!

Chorus in Cork don't necessarily leave your analogue box active when you upgrade.

Ask her if you can get an extra digital box, it'll only cost a few quid a month.

I'm not sure if Chorus would classify your rented room as a seperate unit, it's possible they might. If so, they could require you get an entirely new subscription!

Mags78

Thanks guys.

I'm going into a tv shop after work and playing dumb (well as my boss said it's not playing dumb when you really don't know what you're after!)

Going to see how that works and if it fails going to just get digital multiroom.

steveon

Ask her would she allow you to apply for chorus multiroom under her name, you could get a digital connection in your room for I think approx €7.50 a month but i think its also a €5o connection fee.

Solair

Chorus Digital cable's now got the same line up as NTL digital.
The analogue service is pretty poor, both from a line up and a technical point of view. E.g. it doesn't support stereo sound and the picture quality's terrible due to the 1970s US cable scrambler technology they employ on their cable system (in cork anyway)

Digital will give you way more channels, usually a very clear signal, stereo sound via SCART cable and proper wide screen on some channels and an electronic programme guide (even a bad one is better than none)

boomerang

Funny that she's still got an old Jerrold decoder, when she's upgraded to digital? That's unusual. Normally the technian would take away the old Jerrold box when installing the digital.

The decoder box won't work in your bedroom unless there's already an active but currently unused cable point there.

If there never was a Chorus outlet in the bedroom, then you would need to have one installed, which would cost €50 and then €7.50 per month.

If there's an active analogue point in the bedroom, then it's very likely that Chorus would upgrade it to digital free of charge, if you live in an area where the analogue service is currently being phased out. The €50 installation fee would be waived, and there'd just be the €7.50 per month to pay.

There's nothing to stop you ringing Chorus to find out, just explain that you share a house with your landlady and want to make a preliminary enquiry. They can't discuss the billing with you because of the Data Protection Act, but so long as you can give them the correct address, they can check the account and see what your landlady currently has and what she'd be entitled to. You could then ask your landlady to ring Chorus and request the installation of a point in your bedroom or to have that point upgraded to digital, if there's one there already.

Hope this helps!

Solair

It's quite possible they're just abandoning the old jerrold boxes. They're utterly useless once an area goes digital and the box itself is disabled electronically from the headend.

I'm not 100% sure exactly what's happening in areas like Cork where there were always analogue settop boxes for all channels. There's a distinct possibility the analogue service is not available at all as they pretty much do a clean upgrade, where by everyone gets a digital set top box rather than just people who opt for extra channels as in the ex NTL areas in Dublin.

In Cork it's more of a swap of your box for a digital one rather than the digital service being an add-on.