Paul Andrews wrote:

"Stuart Noble" wrote in message
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Christian McArdle wrote:
Thanks Bob, I didn't realise that there was still an analogue
passthrough of the terrestrial channels on the digital box.

Also, if you do go FreeView, then you just buy two boxes. They are down
to about 20-25 quid these days. No subscription. If you've got a bit of
cash replace the dinosaur VHS with a decent twin digital tuner PVR. Then
you can record two channels at once whilst watching a third (or playback
a previous programme whilst recording 1 or even 2 other channels).

We ditched our NTL a year ago and haven't looked back. You don't want to
stick with analogue. It has no widescreen, no BBC3, no BBC4 and will be
switched off soon. I can't believe NTL are still selling it. Sky stopped
years ago. Terrestrial analogue is on its last legs, thank god. It isn't
fair that Luddite analogue users get all the spectrum, meaning that many
people can't receive digital.

Christian.



I've just ditched NTL tv in favour of a £25 box from ASDA. Saves me £10 a
month and is faster and easier than the jokey NTL interface.
My plan would be to try the ASDA box. If reception isn't good enough, take
it back for refund (only ASDA offer this IIRC) and then ring NTL and tell
them you're switching to freeview. They will almost certainly offer you 6
months free

When we moved into the house, the tv reception looked quite good. I
discovered the ariel was boosted. Later we went with NTL. On a boring old
set top ariel reception is pretty poor. The TV in the kitchen has very dodgy
reception. I could go for a new ariel and boost that but I'm wary of going
to a lot of expense and hassle to find freeview just isn't doing it for us.
Maybe I need to ask the neighbours!

You should be able to feed the old arial into the back of your NTL box.
Ours feeds into our Telewest box and works just fine, except the pigeons
roosting in the arial have loosened the plate at right angles and in a
strong wind there are some artefacts on the analogue channels, and I
don't much like heights (its on the chimney, two stories plus the attic
up).

Peter

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