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Originally Posted by turkeytrot
Thanks jb66, but why can't Virgin simply 'splice' the input aerial cable at its point of entry into the room? One side of the splice would go to the set-top box in the normal way, and the other would connect to the in-cavity cable that I have which terminates at the other side of the room. I'm sure I'll need another set-top box at that point to decode the signal, but I don't understand why you think that Virgin won't touch it.
BillJ
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It's not an aerial cable in the traditional sense - it carries digital signals from the broadband network (albeit on a different frequency) which need to be decoded by a set top box with a smart card.
It is not designed to go directly into a TV (although that was an unadvertised byproduct of the old analogue system, which has been pretty much turned off now.)
Only way to get to a 2nd TV is (as mentioned earlier in this thread) to either have a 2nd box and card, or get a digisender which takes it's signal from the VCR scart (as TV scart is disabled when using HDMI) and distributes it as required.
I understand that virgin will, on an install, put cables in to wherever you want the boxes to go, but won't do anything with cabling that is aready there, because more often than not, it's not the correct type of cable for the job and is likely to introduce noise onto the network, which will cause issues for many.