NTL analogue without set-top box?

[leo]

Hello All

I just had NTL analogue installed in my flat (very disappointed during installation when I found out NTL only provided analogue services in the Westminster area, which they simply forgot to let me know over the phone).

But I have to get used to it now. One question: since the service is being broadcast in analogue, is it possible to skip the set-top box altogether and tune the channels straight on my TV? This way I can avoid using two remotes. So far I managed to tune SkyOne directly, but no other channels show up.

Many thanks!

Leo

[rdhw]

Originally Posted by leo

since the service is being broadcast in analogue, is it possible to skip the set-top box altogether and tune the channels straight on my TV?

Most of the channels are encrypted and the set top box is required to decrypt them for viewing. Some free-to-air channels might be unencrypted, but some of these might be on the cable at a frequency that your TV cannot tune to.

Originally Posted by leo

Hello All

I just had NTL analogue installed in my flat (very disappointed during installation when I found out NTL only provided analogue services in the Westminster area, which they simply forgot to let me know over the phone).

But I have to get used to it now. One question: since the service is being broadcast in analogue, is it possible to skip the set-top box altogether and tune the channels straight on my TV? This way I can avoid using two remotes. So far I managed to tune SkyOne directly, but no other channels show up.

Many thanks!

Leo

You will get the basic five channels without the box; if you're lucky you might catch one or two of the others like Sky One although in my experience these seem to become available accidentally and come and go at random. Before we got NTL digital we just had our TV tuned directly through the cable (cablecos are obliged by law to continue to feed the free channels through any cable they have installed, even after a subscription has been cancelled) and for a while we even had E4. We asked the engineer who did our digital install about it and he said he'd even heard of people getting free p0rn this way ...

Don't expect it to last tho'.

[confusion_boy]

Hi mate,

You could always get a 4in1 remote and use that for the Tv + Analogue box... thats what i do, plus it works great for my VCR and Stereo volume.

[lohwj]

Originally Posted by leo

Hello All

I just had NTL analogue installed in my flat (very disappointed during installation when I found out NTL only provided analogue services in the Westminster area, which they simply forgot to let me know over the phone).

Leo

Hi! I'm on NTL analoue on Westminster as well. Don't expect digital anytime soon, as when I signed up just over a year ago, the people at NTL told me it'd be available in "a few months time".. Same response when I asked earlier this year.

What bugs me though, is the package of channels we;re offered with NTL analogue. Why does it differ so greatly from analogue packages elsewhere? (Like the list of channels they have on the ntl site)

[asdf]

Analogue packs differ on a region to region basis. If they changed it so that everyone had the same, I'd imagine there would be a big uproar.