Virgin media & Magic eye on 3 floors ?

Medic999

Currently in a groundfloor flat, and am paying about £ 75, for the virgin tv packet and broadband.
We've got a tivo box in the lounge, and a normal V HD box in the bedroom.

Just bought a new house which apperently has been set up for Virgin media, but doesn't have normal cable, or no normal satelitte or something like that, so we can't get freeview.

The new house has 3 floors, with the lounge on the first floor.

We'll probably stick with VM though might try and get a better deal, though don't fancy forking out loads extra for boxes at all the floors.

We want the tivo box in the lounge (1st floor), watch tv in both bedrooms (2nd floor), and watch tv in the kitchen/conservatory (groundfloor). There's only two of us so no need to watch different shows/tv's at the same time.

I've got no experience with these magic eyes, can i just get a magic eye for every tv and somehow all connect them to the tivo box in the lounge ?
And do these eyes work ok over 3 floors ?

And if i would want freeview as well, where would i go to get the satellite installed for this ?

Moneymaker

Freeview is the UK terrestrial TV service. It requires an aerial not a dish. The aerial should be positioned so it has a clear view of the transmitter, if possible.

For Sky or Freesat you need a dish positioned where it has an unobstructed view of the Astra-2 satellite cluster designated 28.2°E (that's not a compass bearing).
See http://www.dishpointer.com

Medic999

The house has this attached to it :

Buzby

TiVo operates on VM's cable service ONLY. From the pictures you provided, all that hardware proves is the previous owner didn't have cable - so it looks as though you will lose the VM TV and BB services, leaving only telephone and ADSL BB rebranded from BT as Virgin National.

TV will be provided off-air via terrestrial (Freeview) or satellite (FreeSat or Sky). As long as you have an RF distribution box, you can feed Freeview to all your sets, but FreeSat will need a STB for each set. If you don't subscribe to premium channels there is nothing more to pay once the STB is purchased.

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Medic999 wrote: »

The house has this attached to it :

So you could have Freesat by connecting a decoder to the satellite dish and/or Freeview by connecting a different type of decoder to the either one (or both) of the aerials.

Both of these options would operate independently of Virgin cable, but do note that you'd receive only Free-To-Air channels.

If you want a mirror of your Virgin TV subscription, you'll need to continue subscribing to an extra cable decoder . A "magic eye" device will only allow the same channel to be watched as is tuned onto the TIVO as you know, but it will also only provide standard definition pictures.