Sky distributed through apartments & DVD recorders

eth0_

Hi All.
I'm moving into a new apartment block tomorrow which has Sky digital distributed throughout, without the need for a decoder. I've heard that some brands of DVD recorders can get very confused with this sort of setup and as i'm going to buy one soon i'd like to hear from anyone who has a similar setup?

Ro-76

That's interesting. I live in an apartment block with NTL, but would love to have sky digital instead. I thought I would need a dish, which is not allowed.

How is this done?

Ro

eth0_

Ro-76 wrote:

That's interesting. I live in an apartment block with NTL, but would love to have sky digital instead. I thought I would need a dish, which is not allowed.

How is this done?

Ro

I'm not entirely sure! I'm moving in tomorrow, i'll see if I can get onto the roof and see what kind of Dish setup is up there.
Sky themselves installed it, it's some special package for apartment blocks, and you don't need a decoder but you can use one if you wish, presumably to access the, ahem, 'premium' channels.

Akula

but i'm guessing you don't have any epg or the like?

I'm guessing you can hook up a sky+ box eh?

10000maniacs

If you are getting all of Sky piped into your flat, there must be a lot of LNB's on the roof (And a lot of Sky Decoders.) Maybe they meant NTL Digital.

Mossy Monk

are the sky channels not on their own seperate uhf/vhf channels. i'v never heard of being able to decode channels without some sort of decoder

Skyuser

It must be NTL digital. Sky do a special service for apartment blocks but you must still have a decoder so everyone can choose different packages