Chris

You can treat the NTL analogue signal that comes into your house in exactly the same way as you would the signal that comes down from your roof aerial. So long as the service is connected at the street cabinet, the five terrestrial analogue channels will be available and you should be able to use a splitter to send the signal to multiple rooms.

What I'm not aware of is if they have connected your house to the digital service out at the street cab, whether they at the same time unplug the analogue feed to your house. If they do that, then the only way to get NTL into multiple rooms is by subscribing to multiple STBs, or by splitting the output from the STB in your front room, in which case every telly in the house would have to watch the same channel at the same time (someone jump in and say so if splitting STB output is a bad idea!).

TBH if your only reason for getting NTL is the duff TV reception in your area, I would have thought you'd have been better off spending your money on getting an ultra high gain rooftop aerial professionally installed, and making sure it's the right type to work with Freeview when it becomes available in your area. NTL's base pack is not good value unless you particularly want the phone line that they force you to subscribe to along with it. IIRC the monthly sub is £19, although there may be a 'free line rental for 12 months' offer on at the moment.

We suffer poor reception at our house and would have gone for the proper roof aerial but for the fact that there won't be any Freeview where we are until about 2008 and having had Cbeebies in our old house we can't live without DTV any more! We're 25 miles from the nearest Cable network so we got $ky. Free install and £13 a month for the base pack, which has fewer channels than NTL's base pack but at least the picture is crystal clear and we get BBC and ITV's digital channels.