Freeview stopped working since sky + HD installed.

[Benzel]

As the title says.

Any help appreciated.

[stfcinbmth]

First thing to do is check all the cables are firmly seated, especially the aerial

[Benzel]

Everything seems fine the only loose cable is from the old dish, I'll have to have a proper look after work.

[stfcinbmth]

I'm wondering if they stuck the aerial lead in the back of the sky box

[Benzel]

Yeah they have. I shouldve made it clear that freeview is built in to my tv in my room.

[Batch]

So does freeview work again if you remove said aerial lead from the Sky HD box and chuck it back into the TV directly?

Probably best to establish this first before working out why passthrough isn't working.

Just a thought, they did put aerial cable--->sky HD, Sky rf1----->TV didn't they!

[stfcinbmth]

They should have looped a lead from the RF out of the Sky box back to the aerial socket on your TV

http://www.avforums.com/forums/sky-hd-sky-3d/901232-replaced-sky-sky-hd-but-no-rf-output.html

[Chubbs]

excuse my ignorance but is you have sky + HD why would you still want to watch your free view?

[Benzel]

excuse my ignorance but is you have sky + HD why would you still want to watch your free view?

The freeview is built into my tv in my bedroom.

Sky + is in the living room.

[Chubbs]

The freeview is built into my tv in my bedroom.

Sky + is in the living room.

gottcha, i'll shut up now

[Batch]

excuse my ignorance but is you have sky + HD why would you still want to watch your free view?

Sometime a recording clash happens, recording 2 things want to watch a 3rd?

Or distribute Sky HD and/or freeview around the house, then you can bugger off to a different room to watch the footy in peace while the Mrs watches strictly dancing on ice dance has talent.

edit:, erm or what he said.

[Benzel]

Sometime a recording clash happens, recording 2 things want to watch a 3rd?

Or distribute Sky HD and/or freeview around the house, then you can bugger off to a different room to watch the footy in peace while the Mrs watches strictly dancing on ice dance has talent.

edit:, erm or what he said.

Ha something like that. We've always had sky round the house but now with HD it doesn't look so great because we don't actually have multi room, so there's no HD cabling.

It's not that big a deal really but it's mostly for instances like if I come home from work and my brother and his mates are watching Sky downstairs, I could go upstairs and stick freeview on.

[tans]

Ha something like that. We've always had sky round the house but now with HD it doesn't look so great because we don't actually have multi room, so there's no HD cabling.

It's not that big a deal really but it's mostly for instances like if I come home from work and my brother and his mates are watching Sky downstairs, I could go upstairs and stick freeview on.

Theres no such thing as HD cabling i believe.

[Arriba]

if you have the original wiring from the dish still connected you could get a cheap hd freesat box and use that upstairs. it doesn't need hd cable.
Dunno how this has effected your freeview issue as it should not have anything to do with a satelite installation.

[Benzel]

Theres no such thing as HD cabling i believe.

Really? I only wonder because there's 2 dish inputs on this new box rather than the single from the original dish.

Fuck knows, I'll have to have a proper ganders when I finish work.