Virgin Tv

[m4tty]

Hi,

One a job at the moment where the customer wants flatscreen put on chimney breast.  No problem in getting socket behind TV when on fireplace but not sure on the aerial situation. 

It had sky before and i understand a little about it but never touched virgin.

There is the main aerial in the loft with a feed down to stairs under cupboard which ive fitted a booster to power the 5 aerial points around house.  One of these coaxs goes to front room in corner where TV is at present.  Another coax goes from this corner out to the kitchen coax outlet.

If I cut the ends off these coaxs in corner of front room and join them i will have standard TV (freeview) on the kitchen TV which customer is happy with.

What i need to ask is does the virgin need a normal aerial or is it like sky doesnt need one?

Also how do you guys normally go about getting cables up behind the TV ie, scart leads.

I was going to run some conduit concealed where I can get these cables behind the TV, is this the norm.

Any info appreciated as always

Cheers

M4tty

 

[ProDave]

Virgin is Cable tv isn't it? so no aerial or dish (unless you also want to use the built in freeview on the tv)

So you face the same issue with a wall mounted flat screen tv, where to put the Virgin box?

Having found a home for it, a long hdmi cable from there to the tv.

I would always put at least 2 coax runs direct to the tv for freeview / freesat etc.

Up here 90% of houses are timber frame, so there's always a void behind the plasterboard to run cables.  hdmi is not too bad, but scart were a PITA as they were so big.

TIP:  If you buy a longish (say 5 metre) scart lead, then TEST IT before you spend an hour pulling it through the wall.  the time to find out it's a carp one that doesn't work is before you install it.

Now think ahead about the rubbish sound from most flat screen tv's and plan where the surround sound system will go (when they realise how rubbish the sound is) and plan the cable runs for the speakers.......

 

[Barx]

I have virgin (yes, cable) it's basically coax coming in off the street, into set top box, then hdmi from stb to tv. I tend to advise people to have a small unit in corner of room for stb, dvd, etc. then run at least 2 hdmi and a coax up to tv. I try for a rgb too, that covers a lot of bases. You need to interrogate the client and find out what they require or MIGHT require in the future. Best to over kill it now.

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Then there is a RJ45 link if its a smart tv. Do they use any game units. Probably a minimum of 3 HDMI leads.

 You need to interrogate the client .

Borrow my light if you want

 

[electrics_new]

i've done this before and installed ans customer had an av receiver which meant I only had to install one HDMI lead.  As everything else connects into the AV unit.  Maybe a good idea to run a digital ariel socket independent to the av unit that way if the av unit ever fails you always freeview to watch.  Richer Sounds have some good deals on the AV units.