Hopefully an easy question, one I strugle to find an easy answer for on these forums (a dfinitive answer?) I have an old N*L, I guess Vi*rg*n now, connection to my house. We I connect thmy portable TV to is directly via Coax line I recieve BBC, CNN, British Eurosport, BBC News 24, QVC Five + some others totally clear watchable......I also get a channel that states V*RG*N services are no longer available in this area (or something like that).........This is a direct connection with no box or device between the supply and the TV.....I don't subscribe to V*RG*N TV or Broadband. Question, is this sufficiently ON signal for use with a Eurovox box? Cheers for any help.
Trying to understand exactly what you mean LOL However why dont you borrow a box off a mate and see if it works, although I would leave it until this all settles down!!
yes you will get a signal to your Eurovox. You will receive the same free to air signals. If you choose to try an illegally obtain more then it will depend upon what channels are being carried on the transponders still transmitting on that network. If VM are not maintaining the network and supply then I doubt you will get much ( it could be local council run like in Milton Keynes ) If VM are then you will get all channels. Go to VM page and use the postcode finder to see if VM is available in your area as a cable supplier. Of the answer is no then it's up to you if you want to buy a Eurovox and find it only receives the FTA channels as it is sold to do.
Thanks for that................I know that V*RG*IN are active in the town as they are the only cable provider and the whole town is covered by them, so I think I might give it a go............I'm just curious to learn about the technicalities of stuff like this 'cos its interetsing.
@ Pasanonic BT originally owned the MK Cable and had to dispose of it because the Government said they could not be both a content provider and content carrier. BT wanted such a stupid price for it, nobody would buy. This was a tactic to get the legislation changed, but didn't work. Eventually NTL agreed to lease the network, on the understanding BT would upgrade it. As we know VM took over NTL some time back. The agreement, to my understanding, was that BT would maintain the fibre, and NTL (VM) the copper. There's always a dispute over who maintains the box where the two meet! Before the disposal of the original MK Cable network, BT had given assurances that it would be upgraded, and presumably those assurances were taken into account by NTL at the time. BT do not see it as a priority and will get no financial benefit, VM will not upgrade it because it is not thiers, so what was once the jewel in the crown of British communication technology is now consigned to a technological backwater. Because the cable is a hybrid copper/fibre, it cannot handle the plethora of channels now available.
Thanks for that info Topcat. Interesting to know. I'm not that well up on it to be honest and it was the only example of a network that I could not remember being part of the nynex/c&w/ntl network. I used to have a pub in Newport Pagnell and my sister lives in MK but my knowledge is years old. My sister has been with sky for years so I've no idea what is still on that network if indeed it is transmitting at all.
