Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

Right,

I have located an F socket connector but in order to be able to tape from SKY I have to connect it through my satelite box and then on through the video before it goes into my TV aerial socket.

I get chanels 1-4 on my TV without any problems and my sky tv works fine but when I want to tape from sky I am getting interferance on my video chanel. The other chanels are fine to tape from.

Is there a filter I can use to increase the quality of the picture for when I want to tape from Sky?

Thanks

Stoop

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

hi and :welcome: to the site , excuse me if i have got this wrong but have you tried altering the channel your video is using to see if that cures it :)

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

Thanks Paul,

I re- tuned the video when I connected the cbale box but I will try again to see if I can find another video chanel.

As I said, it is only Sky through the video that's affected.

Maybe I could connect the cable box directly to the video thus cutting out the Sky box connection. I will have a look at this. Not sure if it will be possible but I will let you know if I sort it.

If anyone has any other ideas I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Stoop

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

If there is only interference when you are recording Sky then it sounds like one of the RF channels coming through your cable link are interfering with the RF output of your Sky box.

In that case you would need to adjust the RF output of the Sky box so it uses an unused RF channel.

Alternatively, have you considered taping from Sky via scart?

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

Hi,

looking at the title of this thread, I have the same scenario at my house. I have virgin dish with no subscription outside my house. I get few channels with the cable plugged straight into my tv without any box. Now I want to buy the freeview box to get all channels. Will any freeview box work, if I plug it in between my tv and the cable dish ?
If no then what is the other option ?

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

Virgin Dish?

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

I rent the house and people living/ renting this house before use to have virgin media cable connection. Now that I dont have subscription, I connected the cable from the dish straight into my TV and I get few channels like BBC1,2 ITV1,2, Cartoon N/W, UK TV History Channel 4 E4...etc. I want to buy a freeview box to get all the channels and want to make sure will it work with it?

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

Freeview boxes do not work with Virgin cables. Sky boxes do not work with Virgin cables.

The only thing that is guaranteed to work with Virgin cables is a Virgin box supplied and installed by Virgin for which some payment would be required

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

Thanks for the quick reply. That helps.
Actually as I am renting, when I move to a new house after few months I am not sure if that house will have Sky/Virgin cable.

Will freesat box work with any dish ? or do they need their own dish to be installed?

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

Freesat will work with any dish.

What are you talking about when you say 'Virgin dish' - there's no such thing ;) Perhaps there's a Sky dish as well as an old Virgin installation?

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

I get what you mean now! Virgin Media TV comes only through underground cable. The dish outside my house could be of sky....Duh me.

But still I cannot use freeview box with that possible sky dish (as I read on some other threads/ forums), I need freesat box for that. Right ??

I am going to see how much freesat box only costs and where is the dish cable point in the house.

Thanks.

Re: A Few Cable Channels without Cable Box?
 

Correct, a Freeview box won't work. A Freesat box, on the other hand, should work just fine, assuming the dish is still pointed in the right direction :)