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ntl...does digital cable necassarily have analogue signal

  • 30-03-2011 9:43pm
    #1
    galtech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭


    Hi,

    I live in an appartment about ten years old and recently had ntl digital installed,..I thought I could tap into the cable before the decoder box and recieve "basic" ntl(rte 1 2 tv3 19 channels etc...)for the two bedrooms,like I had done in my family home which is about 30 years old.
    The tvs in the bedrooms are recieving no signal,..I heard from someone that newer buidings are only carrying digital signals but I find it hard to believe a building ten years old only carries a digital signal although it appears so.
    Does anyone no is this true and what are my best options for tv in the bedrooms DIY style if the cable is digital only?


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  • #2
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Antenna


    welcome to boards.
    The apartment cabling is probably all being fed by an MMDS aerial which is a digital-only network, not regular cable network.

    You could put your own TV aerial on a balcony or at window (if its facing the right way!) to get the Irish channels


  • #3
    galtech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭galtech


    Thanks for that


  • #4
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,067 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    On normal UPC cable, digital cable almost always carries the analogue service, unless you live in Cork where only the Irish terrestrials are carried.

    As the previous poster says, you may have communal MMDS.

    Check to see if your TV has VHF. Most Irish TVs do. If it was imported from the UK it might not.


  • #5
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    Cork's the only are where cable has been through a full analogue shutdown and transfer over to digital.

    The reason for this was that Cork's cable network was encrypted and required set-top-boxes even for analogue reception. So, it made sense for UPC to just do a clean box exchange i.e. digital box replaced analogue box. The network there does however still carry RTE1, RTE2, TV3 and TG4 and possibly one other information channel in unencrypted PAL. However, the picture quality on this is pretty dire. It's sourced from a UPC digital feed and it appears to be in 4:3 only without stereo sound or teletext.

    I am not sure if this service will continue when analogue broadcast TV services switch off entirely in 2012.

    In other UPC cable areas, there's typically a 16 channel unencrypted analogue service on cable. The future of these is unclear but, they seem to be planning to keep them alive for the time being.

    If your apartment building is sourcing its "cable TV" from MMDS then you would typically have a smaller range of channels than normal cable and no analogue TV.

    It's also possible that there's no connection to your apartment at all. Someone may need to plug you into the cable TV network in the basement.


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