Would it work?

If I were to take off my Sview 1 box and plug in a regular FTA cheap box to the same cable would I get the regular free channels?

if you are talking about a freeveiw box then no you would need to hook that up to a external digital aeriel

Oh dear! I dont have an external aerial! Always had cable since we moved here. Any way round this?

why do you want to remove the sv1 for?

I dont! But unfortunately its my father inlaws and he wants it back!!!!

ehhhh do you have kids if yes say they spilt juice all over it and you had to bin it otherwise your only options are hook the ariel straight into the tv and do a install where you will get channels 1-5 and maybe a few other s**t channels or buy a new box or get a ariel installed and then hook the freeveiw on to that sorry but as far as i know there is nothing else you can do

Cheers! Knew we'd need a bloody aerial one of these days!

for the price you would pay to get a ariel installed and to get a cheep freeveiw box you would be just about as cheep getting a new starveiw

I know but with all the talk of VM blocking the boxes permanently, I'm a bit wary of buying another 1.

in my oppinoin it will never happen they have tryed from the start and all they do is disrupt things for a while if there lucky it is all about comnputer code and if someone can create it then someone else can crack it they have been talking about computer piracy (i.e software games music movies) for years and how they are cracking down on it companys have spent billions on trying to prevent it but it doesnt seam to make a diff so i belive all the talk thats going round is just rumers (that v media were wishing was true) but wont actually happen if man can make it man can crack it

Thats what I like to hear!! Ever the optimist

have u considered a f t a box once off payment and superb picture and sound and something called legal
wonder would it work with internal digital aerial in attic as i had an old top up tv box but irl turned off signal to change to mpeg 4