Sky+HD question

[Miklos]

First of all, apologies for the long gap between posting.

A friend of my Mum's has just moved into a brand new warden controlled apartment block.
He has Sky+ HD (or rather he did prior to his move).
He was told in the description of the flat that there was facility for satellite tv.
However, he has learned that there is only ONE coax connection and the council will not allow him to run a secondary coax off the output to his flat. It apparently would be illegal as it was not on their plans? They will also not allow him to erect his own dish.

He wants to know what are his options.

Can he still run Sky+ off the one cable? I told him he could but would be restricted to what he can watch and record at the same time.
As he lives in Blackpool and I'm in Hull, I haven't seen the set-up I've had to go off the telephone conversation we just had.

All advice will be passed on, thank you!

Mike

[nvingo]

Sky themselves have a device available for these circumstances.
There are two parts, one installed between the single cable to the apartment and the two inputs to the recorder.
The other is a little more complicated, as it needs to get two feeds from the "switch" (which distributes the signal to all apartments) and combine them down the single cable, but as it "borrows" one of these from a neighbour, it then has to restore functionality to the neighbour's feed.
Sky may be able to lean on the landlord to allow the equipment be installed.

[fj1200]

As nvingo says you can use a stacker/destacker but you need two inputs from the dish.
I believe for timed recordings you can overlap two recordings. The first one will fail with the second being recorded.
What you can watch and record will be, as you say, restricted.

[Totallydigital]

Originally Posted by nvingo

Sky themselves have a device available for these circumstances.
There are two parts, one installed between the single cable to the apartment and the two inputs to the recorder.
The other is a little more complicated, as it needs to get two feeds from the "switch" (which distributes the signal to all apartments) and combine them down the single cable, but as it "borrows" one of these from a neighbour, it then has to restore functionality to the neighbour's feed.
Sky may be able to lean on the landlord to allow the equipment be installed.

if you are allowed access to the switch system you can also get a local installer to do this - should cost you around £150-£200 so quite pricey but worth it

product is called a destacker

[Miklos]

OK cheers guys for the replies.

I think £150+ is a little bit out of his price range so I think his only option is to nag the Fylde Borough council to let him run another feed off the communial dish set-up.

Failing that, he'll have to downgrade to just having the one feed and live with the restrictions of what he can/can't watch.

Cheers!