Virgin TV and normal TV in my bedroom

Terrysdelight

Hi

I've recently switched from Sky to Virgin. In my living room I had a sky box and this thing called an 'eye' - which transmitted a signal to my bedroom TV and I could watch the SKY channels without paying an extra subscription.

Can I do this with Virgin? Should my 'eye' thingy work or is there another way I can set it up?

Worse case scenario - if I connect my bedroom TV up to the roof arial I should be able to get the normal channels? - my tv has built in freeview in the bedroom but at the moment I'm just getting fuzz!

Many thanks
Terri

WhiteChristmas

I've never used an "eye", but I have used other video senders successfully with my Virgin boxes.

Are you on a V+ (ie HD) box connected to your telly by HDMI? If so, then the SCART output from the V+ box is disabled and you'll need to hook up your sender to your second box.

If you're on a standard box or are connected to your telly by scart, then you can hook up the sender to your first box (probably as you did before but, as I said, I don't know this "eye" thing specifically).

If your roof aerial is up to the job of receiving terrestrial digital then it should work fine in your bedroom.

Terrysdelight

WhiteChristmas wrote: »

I've never used an "eye", but I have used other video senders successfully with my Virgin boxes.

Are you on a V+ (ie HD) box connected to your telly by HDMI? If so, then the SCART output from the V+ box is disabled and you'll need to hook up your sender to your second box.

If you're on a standard box or are connected to your telly by scart, then you can hook up the sender to your first box (probably as you did before but, as I said, I don't know this "eye" thing specifically).

If your roof aerial is up to the job of receiving terrestrial digital then it should work fine in your bedroom.[/QUOTE

Sorry I don't quite understand. The box in the living room is a V+. The eye isn't connected anymore (I need to find it if I can use it). In my bedroom I just have a tv and no box.

I do have an aerial point which always did pick up a good signal.

notails

Terrysdelight wrote: »

Hi

I've recently switched from Sky to Virgin. In my living room I had a sky box and this thing called an 'eye' - which transmitted a signal to my bedroom TV and I could watch the SKY channels without paying an extra subscription.

Can I do this with Virgin? Should my 'eye' thingy work or is there another way I can set it up?

Worse case scenario - if I connect my bedroom TV up to the roof arial I should be able to get the normal channels? - my tv has built in freeview in the bedroom but at the moment I'm just getting fuzz!

Many thanks
Terri

You can plug the cable that was in the back of the sky box to the rf out on the v+ box and get whats on downstairs upstairs. you can not use the magic eye to change channels. you would need to buy a ir sender to do this.

spike7451

Sky 'magic eye's' wont work on any cable box,as 'notails' stated,you'll need a IR Sender.

birkee

Terrysdelight wrote: »

Hi

I've recently switched from Sky to Virgin. In my living room I had a sky box and this thing called an 'eye' - which transmitted a signal to my bedroom TV and I could watch the SKY channels without paying an extra subscription.

Can I do this with Virgin? Should my 'eye' thingy work or is there another way I can set it up?

Worse case scenario - if I connect my bedroom TV up to the roof arial I should be able to get the normal channels? - my tv has built in freeview in the bedroom but at the moment I'm just getting fuzz!

Many thanks
Terri

If you've been using the TV through a scart input or something, and not an aerial, is it tuned in for TV reception?
Is there a button on the remote for selecting analogue / digital?
Select 'digital' and go through the menu to auto-tune the TV into the aerial signals.

TwistedPsycho

If the aerial has been up there for many years, neglected and unused because you have had your magic eye; then chances are its not a digital compatible one......

birkee

TwistedPsycho wrote: »

If the aerial has been up there for many years, neglected and unused because you have had your magic eye; then chances are its not a digital compatible one......

There is no such thing as a digital aerial.
Only aerial quality issues. If it worked for analogue, it will work for digital.
Use or non use of an aerial, will have no effect on it's condition .... it's not an active component, it's just a lump of metal with a wire connected.
Is there any damp in the connector box on the aeriel? Is the cable damaged since last use? If it's been unused for sometime, the most likely thing is damage to the co-axial plug for the TV, or, the co-ax plug was never soldered on (the most common condition) and the contact between the aerial lead and the plug has tarnished with age. If in doubt fit a new one, and cut off a couple of inches from the cable before you connect it.

DVardysShadow

birkee wrote: »

There is no such thing as a digital aerial.
Only aerial quality issues. If it worked for analogue, it will work for digital.
Use or non use of an aerial, will have no effect on it's condition .... it's not an active component, it's just a lump of metal with a wire connected.

The 'no such thing as a digital aerial' old chestnut. It is true enough, but it is false to say that if it worked for analog it will work for digital. Aerials come in different types to cover different frequency bands for different transmitters. Digital transmitters are more often outside the frequency band for the old analog aerial, so they will not work as well as the correct aerial and in some more marginal areas, this may be the difference between a digital receiver working or not.

birkee

DVardysShadow wrote: »

The 'no such thing as a digital aerial' old chestnut. It is true enough, but it is false to say that if it worked for analog it will work for digital. Aerials come in different types to cover different frequency bands for different transmitters. Digital transmitters are more often outside the frequency band for the old analog aerial, so they will not work as well as the correct aerial and in some more marginal areas, this may be the difference between a digital receiver working or not.

Still a horizontaly polarised signal though, so it will still receive some digital channels. Still the same transmitter for regional variations.
You have to decide whether to upgrade the aerial for more channels, or better quality reception

birkee

DVardysShadow wrote: »

The 'no such thing as a digital aerial' old chestnut. It is true enough, but it is false to say that if it worked for analog it will work for digital. Aerials come in different types to cover different frequency bands for different transmitters. Digital transmitters are more often outside the frequency band for the old analog aerial, so they will not work as well as the correct aerial and in some more marginal areas, this may be the difference between a digital receiver working or not.

If anyone is still reading this post, I have specific literature now.

Quote: BBC Central TV region options guide.

"If you receive a good TV picture now, then you will still receive a good TV picture upon the digital switchover".

Chances are, other regions will be in a similar vein.

No new aerials required for most people.