do you have too plug aerial in to v box ?

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 2,879

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  29/04/10 - 16:39 #2

  No the is no requirement whatsover and mine is 10ft away from my incoming aeriel cable which is only required for freeview boxes only nowadays.

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• Katia Polletin Posts: 4,094

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  29/04/10 - 19:23 #3

  I don't have the aerial plugged into my V+ box, have it connected though to a Sky box then to Freeview/DVD Recorder, have Sky in the loop so as to then feed that and the incoming analogue terrestrial to other TV around the home, otherwise I'd leave that out the loop too.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 556

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  29/04/10 - 20:41 #4

  Thanks

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,355

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  30/04/10 - 09:30 #5

  If you are using SCART or HDMI to connect the V/V+ box to your TV then no, you don't need to connect the RF input or output to anything.
  
  As said above, the main use for this output these days is to provide a picture to TV's in other rooms, as the RF cable can be very long with a still watchable picture.

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• joshua_welby Posts: 9,025

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  30/04/10 - 10:31 #6

  You only need an aerial lead plugged into your V Box,
  if you have a television set with Freeview Built In
  or a Freeview Box as well as a V Box
  on your television set and you want
  to watch the Freeview service as well
  as the Virgin Media service,
  you will also need to make sure
  that an aerial lead is connected between
  the V Box and the television set
  or could just connect the aerial lead
  straight to the television set only
  for television sets with Freeview Built In,
  it is up to you, or you need to make sure
  that their is an aerial lead connected between
  the V Box and the Freeview Box
  or you could plug the aerial lead straight
  in to the Freeview Box and that there is
  a Scart lead connected
  between the Freeview Box and the television set,
  if your television set has not got Freeview Built in,
  there is no requirement for you to plug an aerial lead
  to a V Box in either case, in the past Cable companies
  plugged the Set Top Box using an aerial lead,
  but now that the Set Top Boxes
  have changed so much since then,
  they use a Scart lead instead
  and now they are using a HDMI lead as well,
  so it frees up the aerial socket
  in the back of your television set or Freeview Box,
  so you can connect the aerial lead directly
  to the television set or Freeview Box
  and then if needed a Scart lead or an aerial lead
  from the Freeview Box to the television set
  
  Josh

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