PC related - kind of!

[echevin]

I wonder if some kind soul can help...

I have NTL which supply's both my digital TV and broadband.
The NTL box has a coaxial cable going in to a coaxial splitter.

The coaxial splitter also has an analogue aerial inserted via another coaxial cable.

The coaxial splitter has 6 outputs which are fed into each room upstairs so that I am able to watch any NTL channel currently being viewed downstairs on any TV upstairs.

Now to my PC.

I have a freeview PCI card inside which is connected to to one of the coaxial cables fed from the splitter.
This allows me to pick up freeview TV through the terrestrial aerial.

Now to the problem:

I assumed that I would be able to pik up the NTL box as well through the coazial cable that is inserted into the PCI card but it won't find it through the freeview software.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for your help in advance!

Elliott

 

[lee101]

I'm not sure if this is right but, i think freeview tuners will only pick up freeview (digital) channels, and just ignore all other data, so as the output is from the ntl box is probably not digital i doubt that the freeviews tuner will be able to pick it up, have you tried ot with any stand-alone set top boxes? so in order to receive the ntl i think you would need a Analogue TV tuner card.
But i am not sure on this, so i wouldn;t go 100% by whati said, unless of course someone who knows what they are talking about backs it up ,
Lee

 

[echevin]

Thanks - I'll check it out and let you know!