can a fibre optic connection be turned into an aerial

[GIO]

Hi,

I have a fibre optic cable coming from the loft thru to my tv in bedroom, i use to have a virgin box there but got rid of all the extras in house, only have the main now, the cable is connected to a fibre connection in the other room still, question is - can a fibre optic connection be turned into an aerial can i put a fitting on it and connect it directly to the tv to get freeview from the tv, tv is an LG Smart TV

cheers gio

 

[sneaker]

No.

 

[Abu Baniaz]

You say fibre, but it is more than likely just co-axial cable. Virgin is generally fibre as far as cabinet. No fibre to customer's home generally.

Co-axial cable can be used for Terrestrial, Satellite or Cable. Virgin use better cable than Sky or most domestic Terrestrial installations.

 

[Kryton]

I know when VM was anologue you could do this but not sure about digital...i would say not.

 

[Abu Baniaz]

I say yes.

Please post a picture of the ends of the cable to get some clarity. Also, I wouldn't cut the co-axial cable, just get some F-plug to belling-lee adapters

 

[spud1966]

As far as cabinet nice one m8

And for your free to air channel on a Virgin box there all encrypted only get 1 ,2 ,3 ,4 on a good day

 

[sneaker]

I thought He meant can you plug the virgin cable from the outside cabinet straight to the tv without aerial or cable box.

 

[Abu Baniaz]

I thought he wants to make use of the wire. Connect one end to aerial, other end to TV. My comments above were in that context.

 

[chookey]

can a fibre optic connection be turned into an aerial can i put a fitting on it and connect it directly to the tv to get freeview from the tv,

He clearly meant without an aerial. I'm with @sneaker on this, the answer is no.

 

[DodgyTech]

I know when VM was anologue you could do this but not sure about digital...i would say not.

That's a right shame, used to be able to do this before. Now the TV shows all the channels as scrambled