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Old 08-06-2006, 14:55
Surfwizard
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I have a Digital NTL box & TV in one room and NTL have installed a aerial feed into another room where the TV acts as a slave, to date this hasnt been a problem.

I have just purchased a Phillips 37" LCD TV with both a digital & analogue tuner. At present the TV views this as an anologue line presumable as this is just a standard aerial feed with no scart connection.

Is there anyway I can connect this up in to a digital feed otherwise I will have to have another box installed which I am trying to avoid.
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Old 08-06-2006, 15:10
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The digital tuner in your TV is only for DTT transmissions from an aerial. So if you have a roof/loft aerial and are in a DTT reception area then you will be able to tune the TV into Freeview at the very least.

What you cannot do however is make the TV tune into the NTL cable feed to pick up the cable digital channels directly. That can only be done with a NTL cable receiver.

So without getting a second cable box all you will get is the RF output from the existing box.
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Old 08-06-2006, 15:10
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You don't need a second box for the LCD just a terrestrial aerial which will pick up the 6 digital Freeview muxes (if you live in a good coverage area) as NTL do not carry the digital Freeview signals on their network.
You can continue using the analogue tuner in the LCD with the NTL feed though for as long as they carry it which may be another year or two.

You could connect the RGB scart from the NTL box to the LCD and use the other TV with the analogue NTL feed.
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