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- #2You should have read a few fora before embarking on your costly and illegal activity.
The 'spare' box does not belong to you and you cannot use it legally without informing Virgin Media and paying the additional charge of £5 or £9.50 per month, dependent on whether your primary box is a V+ or ordinary box.
Should you decide to legally use the second box, Virgin Media will come and install it for you, including any additional cabling and splitter and attenuators you may need. - #3I do love it when people answer questions that were never asked....
Yes, that splitter will do the job you want and it will pick up some channels for free. From the sockect that was working get a short cable that goes from the outlet that was working and connect it to that.
The outlet on that does not work may be a FM out, so will not give any TV as you have already discovered. - #4I do love it when people answer questions that were never asked....
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I'm sorry but you are WRONG. He CANNOT use the 'spare' Virgin Media STB in ANY way. It is not his property to use. - #5The OP asked if it was possible to use a splitter to connect the TV box and the modem to the same socket, that is possible.
The OP did not ask for the rights and wrongs of it.
Technically it is possible, when we had the V+ fitted the fitter man did exactly that.
People are capable of making their own decisions without the need to having it thrown down their neck at every opportunity.
My car can over 70MPH, its my decision if I decide to take it over that speed.
I found a wallet on the floor while out last night, it was my decision to hand it to the bar manager or pocket the cash and dump it. - #6I found a wallet on the floor while out last night, it was my decision to hand it to the bar manager or pocket the cash and dump it.
I guess if you pocketed the cash you'd be making your own poverty history - #7I guess if you pocketed the cash you'd be making your own poverty history
I would be.... but then nobody said I took the wallet, in fact nobody said I even went out last night. :eek:
I may have had a quiet night in watching Oceans 12 on DVD followed by Thank God Your Here on ITV and then Peal Harbour on BBC3 and in between that making sure all my work shirts were washed and drying ready to be ironed this evening while watching Ski Sunday... :yawn:
Just making the point we can all make our own decisions without the need of self appointed moral mentors. :rolleyes: - #8Just making the point we can all make our own decisions without the need of self appointed moral mentors. :rolleyes:
I ABSOLUTELY agree except that it is not a moral decision but a legal decision. The law is the law whether you agree with it or not. - #9So what channels would he get= if he connected it? Would he get more then freeview? Would he get uk tvgold?
- #10Even if you were to hook a disconnected box up (which is illegal), you at most would get BBC 1 - Channel 4.
Any more channels and it is a chipped box (which is illegal) - #11I'm sorry but you are WRONG. He CANNOT use the 'spare' Virgin Media STB in ANY way. It is not his property to use.
Yes he can. There is nothing illegal about plugging in an old box and watching non-sub channels. I had done it for years using the old analogue box that cabletel REFUSED to pick up.
shilling.. - #12I'm sorry but you are WRONG. He CANNOT use the 'spare' Virgin Media STB in ANY way. It is not his property to use.
calm down mate you sound like you going to have a heart attack - #13Yes he can. There is nothing illegal about plugging in an old box and watching non-sub channels. I had done it for years using the old analogue box that cabletel REFUSED to pick up.
shilling..
Anyone connecting a box up that wasn't given to them by Virgin IS illegal
Reconnected a box you have been given, but have then requested to be disconnected, is allowed. But unless you pay the extra rental. you will only get about 5 channels - #14Back to the original question....
If I'm reading it correctly, your issue is that a freeview box wont work with an analogue aerial. You need a small Digi aerial, like the ones they sell in curry for about £15 (last time I looked). Depending on where you live, you may get a far better picture than you would from an old Pace box anyway. Even better, you wont have to live in fear of VMs heavies kicking down your door one night and hauling you off to share a cell with a big bloke who calls you Nancy. - #15Wouldnt you need a viewing card to make the old NTL box work ?
- #16He said its works when connected so it must have a card.
Typical within minutes of not paying bill you get cut off but cancel your service and they don't bother to cancel the feed to your house so you can just buy one or hack your box.:D - #17He said its works when connected so it must have a card.
Typical within minutes of not paying bill you get cut off but cancel your service and they don't bother to cancel the feed to your house so you can just buy one or hack your box.:D
The only reason they CAN stop the the service is because they have the smartcard and box on the account.
Kinda like a tap. All the channels flow to everywhere but encrypted. It is the box that allows only the subscribed channels through
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TruTV | |
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Launched | 4 August 2014; 5 years ago |
Closed | 12 February 2019; 9 months ago |
Owned by | Sony Pictures Television |
Picture format | 576i (16:9SDTV) |
Audience share | 0.17% 0.01% (+1) (August 2018, BARB) |
Slogan | Larger than life, unscripted, entertaining. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Broadcast area | United Kingdom Ireland |
Replaced by | True Crime |
Timeshift service | TruTV +1 |
Website | www.truechannels.tv |
Terrestrial | |
Freeview(Manchester) | Channel 68 Channel 69 (+1) |
Satellite | |
Freesat | Channel 153 |
Sky | Channel 180 Channel 280 (+1) |
Astra 2F | 11307 V 27500 2/3 11307 V 27500 2/3 (+1) |
Cable | |
Virgin Media | Channel 212 |
IPTV | |
Eir Vision | Channel 565 |
TruTV was a British free-to-air television channel owned by Sony Pictures Television. The channel was launched on 4 August 2014 by Turner Broadcasting as TruTV.[1] On 12 February 2019, it was replaced by True Crime.
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History[edit]
In May 2014, Turner Broadcasting System announced that they would launch TruTV, a separate British version of the US channel of the same name. On 13 June 2014, TruTV launched a placeholder on Freeview channel 68. On 24 July 2014, the TruTV placeholder launched on Sky channel 565.
TruTV[edit]
On 4 August 2014, TruTV was launched.[2]
In mid-December 2016, the then current owners Turner threatened to close down the channel if a last-minute funding deal could not be agreed. It cited the fact that the channel had failed to consolidated an audience, even with some of its biggest shows like America’s Got Talent. Original commissions were a part of the channel's early plans to build upon US shows. Ian McDonough, senior vice-president and managing director of Northern Europe at Turner Broadcasting said in February 2015: “We want to move quite quickly with this channel, so I don’t think we’ll wait too long. By year two, we want to start looking at UK commissions.” Due to the lack of audience, this never came about.
On 16 February 2017, Sony Pictures Television acquired the channel from Turner. The channel continued to license its name and logo from its previous parent, which will still represent ad sales for the channel.[3]
In early 2019, the Freeview broadcast area of truTV was reduced to Greater Manchester only, via the legacy GMAN multiplex, with Sony Crime Channel moving to the Comux slot, and True Entertainment moving from its original allocation (which was unavailable in Wales) to the prior Sony Crime berth (truTV's pre-2018 position).
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The Turner-owned truTV name in the UK was closed on 12 February 2019 and was replaced by True Crime.[4]
Local-TV simulcasts[edit]
On 25 May 2017, TruTV began broadcasting on Freeview in two daily programming blocks on the Made Television network of channels, as part of a programming supply agreement. The eight stations in the Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Mold and Tyne and Wear areas simulcast TruTV every day from 13.00 to 17.00 and 21.00 to 01.00 (20.00 - 24.00 on Tuesdays to accommodate America's Got Talent).[5][6] This, however, has since been replaced by a supply agreement with CBS Reality in November 2017.[7]
Programming[edit]
Most of TruTV's programming originally aired in the USA. Programming ranges from TruTV programming, such as I, Detective and Bait Car to factual reality programming such as Hardcore Pawn and Container Wars, as well as programmes such as Fear Factor and Conan.
Unlike its US counterpart which relaunched in October 2014 with a new focus on humour while retaining its reality format and a revamped logo, the British version never followed suit. In March 2015, it was announced that the channel would broadcast RuPaul's Drag Race. Season 4 started airing in June 2015.[8] As a result, Conan was moved to the later time of 01.00, rather than airing in its original slot of 23.00.
On 9 April 2015, TruTV began airing Branson Famous.
On 9 June 2015, it was announced that TruTV would become the UK home of America's Got Talent, taking over from ITV2. It will start airing the tenth season later in the summer.[9]
In November and December 2016, TruTV began airing Adult Swim shows, such as Mr. Pickles, Robot Chicken and Rick and Morty, on Fridays from 23.00.[10]
Programming[edit]
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TruTV +1[edit]
On 28 August 2014, a placeholder channel for TruTV +1 launched on Freeview channel 69. It launched on 5 October 2014. TruTV +1 launched on Sky channel 271 on 1 June 2015. On 15 March 2017, TruTV +1 timeshares with TruTV to be broadcasting from 4am to 5am, The +1 service still broadcasts 24 hours a day on other platforms. On 6 February 2018, TruTV +1 closed on Freeview to be replaced by Sony Crime Channel and its normal service will be on channel 60, with Sony Crime Channel +1 taking its old TruTV +1 channel slot on channel 69. Because of this, TruTV is now in local TV areas. On December 30, 2016, truTV+1 was temporarily removed from Sky 271, and relaunched on channel 186 on 27 June 2017. On 1 May 2018, TruTV+1 moved from Sky channel 186 to Sky channel 280. On 19 June 2018, TruTV+1 returned to Freeview on channel 92 in Manchester only service, but moved to channel 69 on 4 July 2018. On 7 January 2019, TruTV was removed from the Freeview Local TV multiplex and became a Manchester only service, broadcast on the Greater Manchester Freeview multiplex alongside TruTV +1.
References[edit]
- ^Eames, Tom (30 May 2014). 'truTV to launch in the UK on digital free-to-air'. Digital Spy. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^'Virgin Media Changelog'. Cable Forum. 5 July 2015.
- ^Barraclough, Leo; Barraclough, Leo (16 February 2017). 'Sony Pictures Television Networks Acquires British Channel truTV'.
- ^['TV Mag' (The Sun), issue date 9-15 February 2019 (published 2019-02-09]
- ^Made Television reveals all-new summer line up, Made Television, 25 May 2017
- ^TruTV on Made, Made Television, 25 May 2017
- ^'Made TV teams up with CBS Reality'.
- ^Lee, Ben (12 March 2015). 'RuPaul's Drag Race coming to truTV UK in June'. Digital Spy. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^Rigby, Sam (9 June 2015). 'America's Got Talent season 10 will air on truTV in the UK this summer'. Digital Spy. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^'Adult Swim'. www.adultswim.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
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