[dannyboi2003]

Hi Everyone,

WOW! I didnt expect so many replies, thanx for making me feel so welcome.

dezzo - Yes there is a BT line at home but its not my line and my family dont wish to move it to NTL, i have a mobile phone with work so i have no need for a telephone line of my own. I havent had the skybox connected to a phoneline for well over a year now as i had to move my room around a bit when i had my new TV and the phone cable wasnt long enough to reach to the socket, i did intend to buy a telephone extension but just never got round to it.

bob_builder - A friend at work had NTL didgital installed when he moved house last year and he has all his tv's connected up to it with channels 1-5 tuned in, the NTL engineer even connected them all up and tuned them in for him as all the cabling was there from the previous owner of the house. Can i just split my NTL cable and hook it strait into the back of my tv's then, as it happens i have a few NTL splitters which someone gave to me ages ago after they had cancelled their NTL service and had ripped out all the internal cabling because they were re-decorating. My dad knows someone who works for NTL so i could see if he would make me up some cables, so can i just plug it in the tv and tune in the channels - cool thats £10 saved, i'll give that a go tonight. Cheers. Actually just had another thought, the connection point for my broadband is right behind my TV which has a spare point thats blanked off so i ould just use that as the two tv's downstairs are fed though my skybox so we can have sky downstairs - job done!

SMHarman - Yes your taotally right, i dont have freeview in my area so thats not an option either. I live in a valley so we dont pull off the main transmitter for our area but we come off a tiny relay station that oddly enough was managed by NTL but i gather they have sold off their transmission network now. The signal is so weak even with our 48 element aerial that cost a bomb to have installed we still get snow and ghosting on our TV's.

Cheers Guys