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RichardCoulter · 12-11-2016, 13:46

I was going to leave VM, but everything has now been sorted out and I'm now staying, so this is just a hypothetical question for myself and on behalf of those that have actually left VM.

I received some packaging to send the equipment back and inside there was something included to cap off the old connection to "stop interference to your TV".

Is this a new initiative, I've never heard of this before?

Is this because the digital TV signals can leak out and be picked up by a Freeview receiver?

I imagine that those moving to a satellite based service wouldn't be affected as it's wired in like cable TV.

Are there any benefits to VM of doing this eg noise being somehow fed onto the network from an uncapped connection?

12-11-2016, 13:46	#1
RichardCoulter cf.mega poster Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 11,019	Why do you now need to cap off an old VM TV connection. I was going to leave VM, but everything has now been sorted out and I'm now staying, so this is just a hypothetical question for myself and on behalf of those that have actually left VM. I received some packaging to send the equipment back and inside there was something included to cap off the old connection to "stop interference to your TV". Is this a new initiative, I've never heard of this before? Is this because the digital TV signals can leak out and be picked up by a Freeview receiver? I imagine that those moving to a satellite based service wouldn't be affected as it's wired in like cable TV. Are there any benefits to VM of doing this eg noise being somehow fed onto the network from an uncapped connection?