???  Here's my next silly question...

We have ITV Digital (with a box that sits next to the telly).  Unfortunately the reception is too poor here to get anything from it.

I notice the 2 sockets in the wall marked "TV" and "Satellite" and don't yet have the right connections for them, so I haven't been able to try them out.

I wondered:

1)  What are they for?
2)  Does anyone else have ITV Digital - and if so, how can I get mine to work?

Maybe I just need to connect to the TV socket and the ITV Digital box will then have a good enough reception?

Maybe I'll have to get rid of ITV Digital and go for Sky?

All replies are welcome.  Thanks in advance,

Ryan.

We have two sets of these sockets in our flat. One in the lounge and one in the master bedroom. When we moved in we paid community vision to do the business with sky which they did very quickly. Since then we did have one problem but they came out the following day and fixed at no extra charge.

Interestingly I have an old pace box left over from the ondigital launch a few years back (in the early days you had to buy your box for £200!), although i haven't kept the subscription up I did use this to receive itv2 and other free to air channels in the beginning with no problems through the lounge socket.

The bedroom socket however remains a mystery which community vision have yet to fix. I get better signal from an aerial on top of the telly! Although you can see crystal palace out the windows on my side of the building so reception should be good for anyone pointing their aerial in the right direction.

But to answer your question as an ex ondigital subscriber Sky digital is the business, plus the box doesn't crash every five seconds!

Cheers
Erik

We had terrible reception for a long time in our flat and we were told that it was due to the building's reception. However, eventually it got so bad that we called R&R and they sent out a TV chap. Apparently a lot of the TV wires in the building are wired up wrong and because they are not labelled they can't work out which is which. It turns out that we have not been linked up to the main aerial for ages and our aerial has been our TV!! They put in a new cable within a week and we have a perfect picture. I have not tried our bedroom socket but I expect that to be the same.

On another note, I have spoken with Matthew Kirk at R&R about the Sky situation. The charges for linking up to Community Vision are ridiculous but that seems to be because we are paying individually, rather than as a whole building. We are not allowed dishes and with ITVdigital not around any more the only way to get digital TV seems to be via Community Vision (seems like a good opportunity for them to put the prices up even higher!!). However, there is a way around it. We could have an agreement with Community Vision that they service the whole building rather than individual flats. That way we could negotiate a flat rate fee for the whole building and the cost could be added to our service charge. As far as I can see, if people wanted digital, all they would need to pay is the Sky monthly charge. Obviously enough people in the building would have to agree to this but if there is interest in clubbing together rather than paying individually, I would be happy to look into the costs, etc.

me too

Count me in too.

In fact, does anyone know if it is at all possible to terminate all contracts with Community Vision and install a Baltic Quay-wide central dish from Sky?

I'm sure that they would only be too willing to help with that, and given that their monthly charges are low for their product anyway, they might even be cheaper than Community Vision if they can a central dish for us.

Ed

Just by way of an update, we are currently waiting for Spectrum to get back to us with a quote for installing Sky etc.  I will keep you posted.

Thanks

Helen

Has there been any update from Spectrum about installing Sky at BQ?

Caroline

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Well thats made me laugh any way Ali - cheers for that.

Helen - any news about TV side of things? I know you've got a lot on at the moment but would be interested in any news.