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Virgin media reducing analogue channel line-up

  • 25-07-2018 6:18pm
    #1
    homer911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭


    Fantastic says I! Finally I have a good excuse to get my parents off this awful service.

    Now the question - they have three TVs in their house, two with digital tuners and they can support saorview. They have a digital adapter for the analogue only TV that they have never used, but could use. They have VM wiring to each of the three TVs. Is it possible to reuse the VM wiring to connect to a single aerial to pick up soarview? They are in Dun Laoghaire so I would have thought receiving the signal is possible, but where would I find the end of the analogue cable entering the house?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,622 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    homer911 wrote: »
    They are in Dun Laoghaire so I would have thought receiving the signal is possible, but where would I find the end of the analogue cable entering the house?

    Can you see where the VM cable comes into the house? It probably goes to a three-way splitter in the attic. If the house was built before 1990, it's virtually certain that the splitter is in the attic because the electrician who wired the house would have done so on the basis that the TV cable would come into the attic.

    If you can't see a TV cable running along the rooftops or at first floor level, it's possible that it was moved into the Eircom ducts in the 1990s when they (Eircom) were allowed (terrible decision, by Mary O'Rourke) to buy Cablelink. But it could still run up the side of the house and into the original termination point in the attic i.e. to the original splitter.


  • #3
    homer911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭homer911


    That's brilliant, thanks a mill, will have a rummage..


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