Moved into a new unit and found it doesnt have a coaxial aerial port. There is two foxtel sockets.
Can I sign upto foxtel and cancel after the first month and still watch free to air over their system?
Is there some kind of adapter to plug the coaxial into the foxtel to use it as an aerial?
I use netflix for most stuff but occasionally want to watch some sport or something on FTA.
Thanks will give that one a go.
That adaptor just provides a physical way to connect to the outlet, but you won't get any programs.
Moved into a new unit and found it doesnt have a coaxial aerial port.
How is this even possible!?! :o
I mean if you are renting, ask the REA/Landlord to provide… surely…
If you bought the place - possible the previous owners just had foxtel but there might be existing coax aerial cable still in the wall….
I feel like doing some half backed adapter solution via cancelled foxtel is the hard way of getting around this issue.
kinda my fault I guess, looked and saw two sockets, thought one was aerial but they were both foxtel.
Apartment so going up would be hard. New place.
We had the same thing when we moved into a unit last year, when the guy came to install Foxtel, he had a splitter plug that turned the 2 Foxtel ports into a Foxtel port and a Coaxial port which then allowed us to have Foxtel and a coax cable that ran in to the tv for FTA. He said it was the way some apartment buildings were wired, the signal runs down on the same cable and the needs the splitter in house to make it so that you're able to get both
You can, but it would do much. The signal is encoded, and even if it wasn't, I believe they disconnect you from the network when you leave. With houses, those with foxtel installations have a box on the side of the house, where the cable from the street joins the cable inside the house. When you disconnect foxtel, a guy comes around and removes a coupling device from inside that box.
Can you see any antenna's on the roof of the place? It might be a simple job to splice into the existing TV network.
Foxtel have a basic basic service that gives you all the SD free-to-air channels that they offer along with a couple of other channels. When you try to disconnect from Foxtel, this is one of the final things they offer you, just to keep you connected. I believe it's about $2 a week.
Can you see the TV towers from your new unit? If so, an indoor antenna may work.
My parents moved into a new apartment and there were one coax F TYPE socket.
The carried BOTH the FREE TO AIR and FOXTEL SIGNALS
However where we live they don't get FREE to AIR on our FOXTEL boxes probably due to Regional agreements.
SO I had to get a Splitter and feed the TV for Free to air and Foxtel box for Foxtel. They have an IQ2 and they still could record and watch another channel even though It only had the 1 line in.
Can I sign upto foxtel and cancel after the first month and still watch free to air over their system?
Yeah, sure. I'll bet they'll be delighted to give you a box and a free service, no worries.
Foxtel are currently doing a service with no contract with no set up cost and first month base package free
Yes