paying for second cable box?

clare06 · 12-09-2008 2:08pm #1

i am interested in getting a cable set up in my bedroom but ntl have informed me that i have to pay a extra monthly fee ontop of my normal bill. i understand i have to pay for a guy to come out and set up the box. but the thing is my friend recently bought a house and it came will a ntl box on wall in every room and she only has to pay for one. how can that be?

Mountjoy Mugger · 12-09-2008 2:48pm

https://www.upc.ie/television/digitaltv/extras/mrv/

Boxes were probably left behind by previous owner in your friend's case, and may not yet be deactivated by UPC (NTL).

Luck of the draw. Someone else paid to get them in first.

paulm17781 · 12-09-2008 2:58pm

I think the OP just wants Analogue (correct me if I'm wrong).

You could try to get a good electrician to do it or just run some cable yourself. I think they do charge for additional analogue points (which is nonsense) but if the house is pre-wired, they don't know about them.

Mountjoy Mugger · 12-09-2008 3:08pm

I thought that until I re-read it and saw something about setting up the box...so I then had a change of mind.

Is it analoge or digital, Clare06?

paulm17781 · 12-09-2008 3:30pm

Mountjoy Mugger wrote: »

I thought that until I re-read it and saw something about setting up the box...so I then had a change of mind.

Is it analoge or digital, Clare06?

Ah, box on wall implies point to me.

OP, if just analogue, see if a handy friend / electrician will do it. If digital get UPC to do it.

Mountjoy Mugger · 12-09-2008 3:32pm

Ahh, I didn't see the box on wall, until I re-re-read it.

clare06 · 12-09-2008 3:38pm

thanks for the replies.
its the connection in the wall im talking about sorry not clear not big into tech jargon. i guess i just want analogue in bedroom but no aerial only cable in sitting room . at moment have cheap aerial in bedroom which picks up rte 1 2 tv3 tg4 at bad reception and have to move aerial each time i change channel.

paulm17781 · 12-09-2008 3:54pm

In your face MJM.

Clare, what is the distance between the rooms? You may be able to run a cable to the other one. Video senders is another option. It's a bit messy though.

Do you have any electrician / techie friends? Some of them could help you out with best method to do this. I use a video sender to send my digital to my bedroom. I'd prefer to pay for a point but it would be near impossible to get a cable to my room.

clare06 · 12-09-2008 3:58pm

its about three metres or so. what are video senders?

paulm17781 · 12-09-2008 5:26pm

clare06 wrote: »

its about three metres or so. what are video senders?

You could try running a length of cable if it's possible.

Video senders send the video wirelessly. They have to plug into a scart socket so you can send the signal. You could either plug it into the back of a digital box or get a scart splitter.

rubadub · 14-09-2008 2:29pm

paulm17781 wrote: »

I think they do charge for additional analogue points (which is nonsense) but if the house is pre-wired, they don't know about them.

We got them installed 15euro each point and free subscription. We did not have NTL for a good while and they kept offering better and better deals. This is not the usual case. And they would put no more than 4 points in the house though, we put another in ourselves.

15euro each is a good deal, it is proper cabling (do not skimp), but the sub would put me off if I had to pay it.

clare06 · 16-09-2008 4:38pm

hi guys thanks for all your responses . i just bought one of those digi senders plug n go at the weekend and connected it this evening. but all im getting is audio sound. the screen is black. would anyone be able to give me some advice on what to do next or did i buy the wrong one? followed all instructions in the manual but still not working. i have only one input channel on the tv aswell.

paulm17781 · 17-09-2008 8:48am

clare06 wrote: »

hi guys thanks for all your responses . i just bought one of those digi senders plug n go at the weekend and connected it this evening. but all im getting is audio sound. the screen is black. would anyone be able to give me some advice on what to do next or did i buy the wrong one? followed all instructions in the manual but still not working. i have only one input channel on the tv aswell.

It could be a loose cable or a setting. Some of the senders have a few channels, (1,2,3) make sure they match. TBH it could be many things, hard to know with out seeing it. If the second TV is small, bring it into the same room as the first and see if it works there.

rubadub · 18-09-2008 11:24am

paulm17781 wrote: »

It could be a loose cable or a setting.

Yep, scart often still "half" work when plugged in, you really have to jam some in hard, if half out the sound can still work. Also keep pressing AV on the TV being sent to, it could be on a different av channel, and try it in a different scart on the TV being sent to. If there is more than one scart find the one labelled "scart 1" and plug into that, this can sometimes have more connections on it, e.g. RGB might only be on scart 1, and not scart 2.

paying for second cable box?

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