Virgin Media for Freesat
 

Hi All,
I had virgin media connection at my place earlier. I discontinued hte service, opted for SKy internet and got a samsung SMT-S7800 FreeSAT box.(I had to do this as our building has only Virgin connection and do not allow new sky antenna connection)

I had 2 coaxial cables running in my flat, one which connected to virgin TiVo and other to Internet wireless hub.

I carried out following steps for installing the samsung freesat box:
- I chose to connect the internet cable (ethernet cable) of Sky to the Freesat box
- Connected the one coaxial cable the used to run to the virgin tiVo to freesat box
- Connected the other coaxial cable that used to run to the virgin wireless hub to the other socket of the freesat box

After all the connections, I get a momentary display of HDD not ready! followed by HDD ready message but I constantly get an error "Cannot receive this programme. Please check connection".

Could you please advise what am I doing wrong? Will I not get to view any freesat channels using this samsung freesat box and my earlier virgin media connection within the building. Any help/advise will be of great help!

Re: Virgin Media for Freesat
 

FreeSAT is satellite. You need to connect the box to a dish. It won't work using the Virgin Media cable.

Re: Virgin Media for Freesat
 

Square peg round hole i'm afraid :p:

Re: Virgin Media for Freesat
 

Thanks Ben, Any suggestion how do I connect it to a dish without the need of a dish to be installed outside my flat?

Re: Virgin Media for Freesat
 

Simple answer is you can't unless the flats have a shared sky system and dish already installed. Your only other options are some form of internet TV or Virgin but for both of those the freesat box is useless.

Re: Virgin Media for Freesat
 

Thanks for the quick help guys but thats sad! :(

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One last question, can I just order for virgin media TiVo to view the free channels? What do I search for to do so?

Re: Virgin Media for Freesat
 

TiVo boxes are only installed when you take out a TV subscription which will have a contract of 12-18 months.

Grap a raspberry pi then use a browser to watch catchuptv and the various internet players is one of your few other choices unless the dish ban doesn't include a normally TV antenna then freebies is the way to go.

Re: Virgin Media for Freesat
 

Raspberry Pi is a little over complicated for catchup! Just get a NOW TV box for all the catchup apps and get either Sky Movies or Entertainment free for a few months. Plenty of the older white boxes on sale. Operates through Wi-Fi too.

Re: Virgin Media for Freesat
 

You can, but AIUI one has to take a landline and pay the £5 per month TiVo fee.