Saorview and UPC

infodev

Hi, Perhaps someone can explain this.
I have UPC analogue in Dublin 9. I bought a 10 element broadband aerial to receive saorview.

I unplugged the UPC analogue cable and plugged in the aerial and received the 8(crystal clear) RTE channels with the aerial lying on the floor beside the TV!
So far so good.
I unplugged the aerial and plugged back in the UPC analogue cable and lo and behold I now have all the UPC analogue channels PLUS the 8 new saorview channels.

Is UPC now delivering the saorview channels or is the saorview signal so strong in my area that the UPC cable is acting like an aerial and picking up the saorview channels.

The Cush

infodev wrote: »

or is the saorview signal so strong in my area that the UPC cable is acting like an aerial and picking up the saorview channels.

Yes.

RangeR

The Cush wrote: »

Yes.

:eek: My sarcasm detector is broken at the moment so...

In all areas? Must check this when I get home. Do they show up on the EPG?

watty

No. It's only in areas near a transmitter with poorly shield cable.

UPC analogue. UPC Digital and Saorview are three incompatible systems. It doesn't affect the EPGs of any of them.

Similarly you can use a TV aerial to receive TV from leaky cable TV cables, and in analogue days even a few Analogue satellite channels (with no sound and poor video via slope detection of FM)

kodak

Hi

Some what related to above but i have;

Sky Box in Sitting Room
Sky Box in Kitchen
Normal Aerial in Bedroom for Saorview

One paid sky card between the two (had multiroom until i had a fight over phone line etc etc..)


Feed from Kitchen off Sky Box to Bedroom (via rf2 + magic eye)

I want to have both the Saorview channels + sky in bedroom

Can I achieve this as i have to plug in the normal aerial into the TV in and unplug sky , unlike above, the saorview signal must be poor in my area.

I have an aerial in and a satellite in on my TV in bedroom
Thanks in advance.

RangeR

kodak wrote: »

I want to have both the Saorview channels + sky in bedroom

Can I achieve this as i have to plug in the normal aerial into the TV in and unplug sky , unlike above, the saorview signal must be poor in my area.

I have an aerial in and a satellite in on my TV in bedroom
Thanks in advance.

This?

Peter Rhea

kodak wrote: »

. . . Feed from Kitchen off Sky Box to Bedroom (via rf2 + magic eye)

I want to have both the Saorview channels + sky in bedroom

Can I achieve this as i have to plug in the normal aerial into the TV in and unplug sky , unlike above, the saorview signal must be poor in my area.

If by 'normal aerial' you mean an indoor aerial, then you must have a strong signal for it to work.
One way to combine the Saorview signal with the Sky RF out would be to plug your aerial into the Skybox RF in.

I have an aerial in and a satellite in on my TV in bedroom
Thanks in advance.

Satellite in? If the tv has a satellite tuner, you could run a cable from the dish but it would probably just enable reception of free channels.

Ethics11

http://support.upc.ie/app/answers/print/a_id/320

STB

Ethics11, this is nothing to do with the OPs question. He was asking how he was receiving Saorview off his integrated digital tuner in his TV with the UPC cable connected and with no aerial installed. The answer is because of the length of the badly shielded UPC cable is acting as an aerial!

Just have to love UPCs punchline on that page you linked to though.

It should read "Rest assured... with UPC, you are getting mainly stations that are free to air but you are too stupid to know it, thanks for the cash".

Ethics11

STB wrote: »

Ethics11, this is nothing to do with the OPs question. He was asking how he was receiving Saorview off his integrated digital tuner in his TV with the UPC cable connected and with no aerial installed. The answer is because of the length of the badly shielded UPC cable is acting as an aerial!

Just have to love UPCs punchline on that page you linked to though.

It should read "Rest assured... with UPC, you are getting mainly stations that are free to air but you are too stupid to know it, thanks for the cash".

You're completely right.....I actually responded to the wrong thread! I was doing a lot of searching for UPC and Saorview and thought I was in a different thread! Sorry!

In fact, I probably should have just added my query to this thread.....

Hotblack Desiato

kodak wrote: »

Feed from Kitchen off Sky Box to Bedroom (via rf2 + magic eye)

I want to have both the Saorview channels + sky in bedroom

I've a similar setup.
If you connect your outdoor aerial to the aerial input on the kitchen Sky box, the Saorview signals will be combined with the Sky box's output, and the bedroom TV will then be able to receive both (assuming the TV is compatible with Saorview.)

Just make sure that the channel the Sky box uses for its output is a few channels higher or lower than the channel your local Saorview transmitter uses, so they won't interfere with each other.

If you can't run the aerial signal down to where the Sky box is, you could try using a passive splitter (usually available in €2 shops) in the bedroom with the 'outputs' connected to Sky box and aerial, and the 'input' connected to the bedroom TV, in other words connected backwards so it acts as a combiner.