Basic questions - changing from SKY to Virgin

Hi

Apologies if this is a stupid question.... is the cable from a satellite dish to a sky hd box, the same as a cable from the Virgin cable network to a Virgin HD box?

My cables are all hidden behind skirting, so i wondered if i could connect the virgin cable to the existing satellite cable rather than rip the skirting out.

Also, i control my sky hd box from another room using an infrared sender - any reason why this would not work with a virgin hd box ?

Thanks

 

Yeh its the same basic cable. Not sure if they will want to use it though.

 

If virgin are fitting it I doubt they will use someone elses cable, have a chat to the installer, see if you can convince him.

 

Let VM run their cable if they want to, you can then connect your hidden cable when they have left.

David