Freeview /NTL cable

[Francis Asis]

Hope I'm in the right section. I have an NTL analogue cable box. Just the basic package. Can anyone tell me if a freeview box will work alongside it. Are they compatible?

[Headtime]

They don't really need to be compatible with each other, as they are different devices with video outputs. Just like say a DVD player and VHS Recorder. You just need to make sure you have enough SCART Sockets and inputs on your VHS and Telly. So, provided you have enough, I would confidently say you should not have a problem. If you don't have enough, you can buy a SCART hub for about �20 or less.

[Francis Asis]

Thanks for that. That's more or less what I thought.

[Headtime]

Although, I would have thought that if you have cable, you would probably have every channel that Freeview provides. Does Freeview have channels that aren't on cable? I would be interested to know. Cheers.

[tomd]

I have an NTL box (basic package) in one room and a FreeView box in another, and the NTL

[tomd]

(cut off halfway) box recieves all the channels of the freeview box and more, but doesn't have the interactive "press the red button now" feature. I don't have any freeview channels that aren't on the NTL box.

[PeterPants]

If you only have analogue cable, you don't get the digital only channels such as BBC3 & BBC4.

I used to have analogue cable and a freeview box, I plugged the scart from the freeview box into my video or TV scart and the RF out from the cable box into the RF in on the video or TV.  They both work fine!

[Francis Asis]

Thanks for all the replies. It's an analogue box which means I don't get the digital channels as PeterPants said. I could upgrade to digital with NTL but it would cost an extra �10 per month. As a freeview box costs �50 approx I'd be out of pocket in 5 months. However, I've just dicovered that freeview is not available in my area yet. Which begs the question "why does my local Dixons sell the boxes?"