telewest- digital coaxial ?

perkanater

Can a telewest cable wiring be used to view digital tv?

We have these in every room and only one aerial lead in one room? The wiring is in the loft and has all been cut.

If the telewest wiring can not be converted it might as well be ripped out and replaced with a digital coaxial wiring right or wrong??

TadleyBaggie

There is no such thing as "digital" coaxial.

kwikbreaks

It's an old cable TV installation. If you can connect the ends to a distribution amp with an aerial going into that it will work for TV. The trick will be finding the ends as they may have been cut off short.

Nilrem

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

There is no such thing as "digital" coaxial.

Indeed, the exact same cabling worked for both digital and analogue services (and early networking often used a very similar cable).

The only issue I can see is if the cabling is still connected to Telewest/VM's network at all, in which case you need to be careful with how you deal with it.

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Nilrem wrote: »

The only issue I can see is if the cabling is still connected to Telewest/VM's network at all, in which case you need to be careful with how you deal with it.

It's now nine years since the Telewest name was discontinued in favour of the more familiar Virgin Media, so the only problem I can see is that the cable may now be rather old. The OP clearly states that the wiring is in the loft and has been cut, so it can't be still connected to the cable network.