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Hi

My parents have recently added the Virgin Media TV package to the BB and phone they currently have with Virgin. They had Sky for many years, but a few months back got rid of it, but realised they did miss another 200 channels and opted for Virgin.

When they had Sky, they were able to watch it in the 2 rooms upstairs by having an aerial
run into each of those rooms.They could also watch normal TV channels in these same rooms. In the living room, they were also able to watch terrestrial channels on the main TV if the Sky box was off. Video recorder also worked fine if required to tape normal TV.

However, since having V+ installed, they can only watch terrestrial TV via the V+ box. When this is switched off, the main living room TV has no picture, and therfore unable to use the VHS player.The standard Ch 1-5 still work ok upstairs.

They have an aerial junction box outside, which has 2 aerial leads coming out of it down into the living room (both of these are connected to the V+), and also two seperate aerial leads connected to this junction box which were used to beam the terrestrial and Sky pictures into the seperate upstairs rooms.

Since V+, the upstairs rooms get no V+ channels. I have tried to look at what goes where, and see if something is mis placed, but am not very "techno" and do not want to knacker the V+ settings and pictures.

Am hoping that someone could help / advise what is it that i need to do to get both Terrestrial TV and Satellite pictures in the rooms upstairs? Really don`t want to pay out for an enginner if possible, or a infared sender/receiver to beam the pics around the house.

Any help would be much appreciated

setting up digibox :
1) drop terestial you get all the channels through your didgibox and it will be switched off anyway.
2) connect vcr/dvdr via scart to digibox scart port(vcr) yes you can record this way too
3)connect ariel anteanna(coax) to antenna port( where your channels come from)
4)connect scew type cable to cable in port (this is for pvr function on box
5)connect ethernet cable(phone line to hub/reuter)
6) opional second tv via coax to tv port located below antenna port
7) connect some speakers if you have them into the white L and red R sockets
8) a video sender can be added for remote to work in second room tv

these ports are found on most models dont worry if sum are not on your model
it should work just fine every box made has scarts and coax these are your primary connections,

i have a free view connected with only a scart and one coax thats all you need for freeview






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This item was edited on Thursday, 18th September 2008, 22:00