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pad · 11-11-2006, 19:48

I subscribe to NTL television to get my digital services as I live in one of those areas that Freeview doesn't cover. The aerial on top of my house is no longer connected.

I have wired up my house in the way recommended on this board to pipe the analogue output of my Samsung STB box so that the other 3 televisions not near the STB can see channels 1-5 independently of what is being viewed in the living room.

In a few years from now the Government is turning off all the analogue broadcasts ("The Big Switch Off") and whilst at first I thought that this may not seem to affect me - because I'm already digital - it did make me think. Will NTL continue to provide an analogue feed from its STBs so I can use this to feed my other TVs? If they don't, those TVs are going to be useless unless I pay lots of money to get additional STBs around the house.

So what am I to do? Does anyone have any thoughts on what NTL might do to help us?

11-11-2006, 19:48	#1
pad Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 15	The Big Switch Off ... and my other tellies I subscribe to NTL television to get my digital services as I live in one of those areas that Freeview doesn't cover. The aerial on top of my house is no longer connected. I have wired up my house in the way recommended on this board to pipe the analogue output of my Samsung STB box so that the other 3 televisions not near the STB can see channels 1-5 independently of what is being viewed in the living room. In a few years from now the Government is turning off all the analogue broadcasts ("The Big Switch Off") and whilst at first I thought that this may not seem to affect me - because I'm already digital - it did make me think. Will NTL continue to provide an analogue feed from its STBs so I can use this to feed my other TVs? If they don't, those TVs are going to be useless unless I pay lots of money to get additional STBs around the house. So what am I to do? Does anyone have any thoughts on what NTL might do to help us?