Don't have any normal TV

[highlandlassie]

BBC1
BBc2
ITV
channel4
channel 5

have tried tuning the above it, and it don't work



the engineer hooked up my V+ on to channel 3 (this is normally ITV) on my Tv, and didn't tune in the above channels, didn't hook up my video either. Called and got through to India, who says it will cost me £25 to get an engineer out, and also said because I had the V+ I couldn't get normal TV - so if my V+ goes down, I have no TV.

with my old box I had it set up as follows

BBC1
BBc2
ITV
channel4
channel5
No 6 on the TV was my cable TV

0 was my video

[Paul K]

Is your aerial plugged in?

[highlandlassie]

yep - been through all that with the tech's in India

[Paul K]

Where is it plugged in to?

[MovedGoalPosts]

Originally Posted by highlandlassie

BBC1
the engineer hooked up my V+ on to channel 3 (this is normally ITV) on my Tv, and didn't tune in the above channels, didn't hook up my video either. Called and got through to India, who says it will cost me £25 to get an engineer out, and also said because I had the V+ I couldn't get normal TV - so if my V+ goes down, I have no TV.

I've highlighted the key bit there.

To get "normal" or terrestrial TV, you have to have your external rooftop aerial lead connected. I'm not sure there is provision for that with the V+ STB.

Assuming your V+ box and VCR are linked to your TV using HDMI and / or Scart leads, your TV's coaxial aerial socket may well be free. You could plug the rooftop aerial into that.

It used to be that the terrestrial channels were transmitted over cable and could be obtained using something called a bypass filter, allowing these to be received using coaxial RF aerials into your TV from the STB. you may have had that on your old setup, but these are being discontinued, in anticipation of the cable network eventually discontinuing all analogue TV signal carriage. It's called progress

[Paul K]

Hence why I asked where it was plugged in to.

Very surprised the installer needed to use 'channel 3' on the TV - that implies the V+ box is connected to the TV by RF, not scart (or hdmi), or it would display via one of the 'AV' channels????

Afaik the V+ box has an aerial combiner, which allows 'overlaying' the analogue channels from an external aerial, onto the digital channel - but in that case tuning the 'digital channel' into channel 6 on the TV, would seem to be logical - certainly not channel 3????