analogue cable?

**tom999** · 16th August 2003

Hey guys,

sorry a little OT but im sure someone will have info/suggestions for me

I'm moving into a student house soon, looking at getting an ntl package - seems that analogue works out cheaper than digital cable and they say there not phasing out analogue till 2009! - thought it was much sooner!

would anyone advise against going analogue for any reason?

Currently there is no cable in the house but looks like its been there in the past as there is the grey box and old white cables comming into the house.

We would get the main box downstairs, but I have a feed comming into my room, and by luck have aquired an old GI CFT 2100 cable box, would it be easy to get a chip or something for this old box and hook it up to the feed in my room to get all channels?

much risk of being cought? assume they wouldnt be that bothered about analogue anymore?

cheers for any info, tom999

**EUPHORiA** · 16th August 2003

the cable decoder boxes still work in them! however they dont give u as many channels and some of the channels are digital box only. i think Cartoon network is only aval on digital now, they stopped showing it on anolog

**tom999** · 17th August 2003

interesting, so any other channels that are digital only?

wouldnt bother me if its only a few as it looks like hooking up this analogue box would be a lot easier than getting hold of a digital one

anyone know about buying chips for the boxes? the RFT (?) things u plug into the feed look expensive

cheers, t

**EUPHORiA** · 17th August 2003

there is a fair few, when i was on old c&w ano a lot of channels stopped and went digital. its just C&W making me want to upgrade to digital. Not sure what others, i think bravo went, some movie channels, the pay on demand movie channel, maybe film4.
ur better of just getting a chipped digital box

**Locksmith** · 17th August 2003

uh
Chipped? digital box

**EUPHORiA** · 17th August 2003

yeah chipped digital box

**mcauleyj** · 18th August 2003

Chip the CFT2100 - Use Hexgen4 to produce hex for a PIC 12C509, program it or get someone to do it for you. Follow the connection details given in Hexgen for your CFT2100.

Chances are your feed from the cable co is still live & you can use the box to get all analogue channels still available.

The above to educational purposes only of course.

**Locksmith** · 19th August 2003

EUPHORiA

Nice

**Mr_Whippy** · 19th August 2003

as far as im aware they aint installing analouge box's anymore,look at a boot sale or yr local free adds for one

**tom999** · 15th September 2003

still installing analoge in leicestershire apparently...

cheers for the info guys

**mikie8** · 18th September 2003

err do a digi box i just dont understand why ppl ask about nthell packages and avalibilty when this site is one click away from nthell

all channels �65,000 credit
20 kids 17 music enuff for all just go digi