Remote for old analogue NTL box
 

Hi Everyone,

Back asking question again.

My brothers has one of the old analogue NTL box. (picture below)
He no long has the remote (had it stolen) I was wondering if this one would work with it http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NTL-Remote-Con...bleFreeview_RL

I contact the seller but he doesn't know.

Or would be best to get a 'All in one remote'

The NTL box.
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Thank in advance for looking.

Colm

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I wouldn't bother getting a new remote for it. The analogue service will soon be completely disconnected, so the box will stop working if it hasn't already

To be honest I didn't think any analogue STBs were still working anyway

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Hi BenMCR, thanks for the post.
Will take your advised and tell him that.
Thanks for the info, sound.!!! +REP

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Wow, those analogue boxes are a blast from tha past. You should donate that to some museum, so it can sit next to a Sinclair ZX81 :D

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Wow it looks like a really bad bedside clock/radio, does your brother use a VCR as his main recorder by any chance ;)

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No he uses a laser disc machine and a 8 track as his music centre.

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If your bro gives Virgin a call they should be able to provide a replacement remote.

I think he's in Derry.

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my in laws switched to Sky because the could only get analogue cable, and the number of channels kept dropping until it became a waste of time. Virgin/NTL can't get permission in their area to lay new cable down for digital cable, it was one of the first areas to get anaologue cable many years ago.

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I do not think that the remote for that box is still available as it will be the flat one and mine went in the bin nearly 10 years ago.

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If I rember correctly my aunt had a box like that years ago and her remote looked like the one on ebay. I found the manuel for it during a cleaar out.

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A remote for that box will probably only now be available on Ebay but the OP would be better of calling Customer Services and getting a new Digital Set Top Box installed as very soon he will lose all his channels.

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Surely they still provide replacement analogue remotes for analogue customers?

AFAIK, digital isn't available in Derry yet. (It's close, though)

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I did Digital training recently and we have no codes for any replacements for analogue and we advise customers to upgrade whenever possible to a digital set top box in the same way as we do with any broadband customer who still uses a set top box as a modem as sooner or later their box is going to fail.

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There are codes for analogue remote replacement - I've just checked ;)

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Had one of those in my house when I was very little, I always wondered if it was VM/Telewest. Thanks for the nostalgia.

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They do, just need to search for the codes and make sure it's the right box, i.e Jerrold etc.

Not sure if there is still a flow for faults staff in the FDT? Masque do you know?

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The is no flow for analogue boxes so as above I would probably pass them to Customer Services for an upgrade to a digital set top box, all the remotes listed only relate to the present digital boxes.

These are the present remotes in this LINK

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The only problem would be if they are in one of our analogue only areas...I know the codes are still in ICOMS so they can be ordered.

I was analogue trained many, many moons ago! :D :blush:

Can't be many staff left in FMC who would know now I guess.

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Are you sure that the codes are still there as they may be inactive when you try to order a remote for a Jerrold Convertor, and as I say the is no mention of them in the FDT as the is no Analogue option.

You would need the account number and a call to 2nd line for clarification of the remote being available.

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There is for me. Fourth one down on the left hand side. Maybe you can only see a subset. And you can order replacement remotes.

But it's an analogue-only area

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I'll have a look tomorrow and ask FMS too :)

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We were never shown the analogue flows so unaware will have a look on Monday.

I only thought it was Milton Keynes that was analogue and was unaware of Derry until now.

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Probably the best thing to do as they will be able to advise if the remote is available.

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Yeah, we still have little pockets here and there :)

parts of West London (although this is currently having an over-build)

Part of Southampton

Derry

Milton Keynes

City Of Westminster

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Good of them to let us know during training unless they are possibly ring fenced to certain agents.

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Yeah, any agent who is analogue trained will be ring fenced. You don't get many calls for analogue though, despite the age of the equipment, it's still very robust! :)

Analogue boxes don't have smartcards, so you can see that in the equipment screen in ICOMS.

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I originally had an analogue box and the first allowed us to have the terrestrial channels through it using the cable signal and when that developed a fault the replacement had no RF socket to give the channels so I had to fit a roof aerial again to get them back.

Do you remember that far back.

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embarrassingly, yes :D

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Hi All, Thanks all for reading/repling to my question.
Your right Im from Derry and only analogue TV here (and outside toilets hehe)
I'll give Virgin Media a call and see if they would sell me one.

Thanks again everyone.!! +REP

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a replacement should be free :)

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We had an analogue box with the RF bypass like the OP up till a year ago, when we reckoned that Freeview was better value. Retentions did their usual good job and we've now got a much better set of VM services at a lower price.

Anyone want to buy some Freeview STBs?

The TV still displays (fuzzy) analogue channels 1 to 5, with teletext, at the moment.

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If the area the OP lives in still has analogue? He might still struggle to get a spare unless one of the service Tech's has one that has fell down the back of the racking in his van. Otherwise Nope.

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I would assume that Virgin will have pooled the stock of compatible analogue kit from those areas they have shut down, to Derry and anywhere else that needs it

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Indeed you would assume