Sky Q for a Multi Dwelling Building

[Yeebs123]

Hi, 

I am currently involved in the development of a new multioccupancy residential building in the UK, and we are in the process of ensuring that the necessary infrastructure is in place to accommodate TV services for our future tenants.

Our client has expressed the desire to provide TV outlets in the lounge and bedroom areas, allowing for both aerial and satellite/cable services. Specifically, the tenants may opt for TV services from providers such as Sky.

To ensure that the building is ready to seamlessly accommodate Skys services, I would appreciate it if someone could provide information on the specific wiring, equipment, and electrical accessories required for the installation of Skys TV services.

Additionally, any guidance on the technical specifications or recommendations for the central distribution point within the building would be invaluable.

Here are some specific points I would like clarification on:

Wiring Requirements:
What type of coaxial/fibre cabling is recommended for your TV services?
Are there specific wiring configurations we should consider for optimal service?

Equipment Specifications:
Are there particular distribution amplifiers or splitters that work best with your services?
Any specific requirements for the central distribution point?

Electrical Accessories:
Are there specific recommendations for outlets near the TV locations?

Future-Proofing:
Are there any upcoming changes to the service that we should take into account for future-proofing the infrastructure?

We aim to create a building that offers residents flexibility in choosing their TV services. 

Thank you for your time and help!

[Chodley]

This may be useful

https://commercialpartnerships.sky.com/media/r3yn3xev/sky-coaxial-replacement-mdu-2020-v4-20.pdf

[TimmyBGood]

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@Yeebs123 wrote:

Our client has expressed the desire to provide TV outlets in the lounge and bedroom areas, allowing for both aerial and satellite/cable services. Specifically, the tenants may opt for TV services from providers such as Sky.

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Your client might need to recognise that by this point in the century such provision is essentially obsolete, and will certainly become so well within the early lifespan of the building: satellite television broadcast to the UK could cease around the end of this decade, and digital terrestrial television in 2033.

'aerial and satellite/cable services' are complex to specify and provision, expensive to maintain and almost entirely pointless to anyone born since the Millennium.

What any 'future-proof' dwelling unit actually needs is fast and reliable internet bandwidth.

[Yeebs123]

Simply put, if a tenant wishes to have access to TV services like Sky Q, Sky Stream, Sky Glass, Virgin Media, BT, etc., we want to understand the necessary outlet requirements to cover all these services.

Specifically, if they want to watch in the lounge area or bedrooms, what type of outlets would be required? Are quadplex/triplex/duplex outlets necessary, or would RJ45 outlets be sufficient? What Cabling do I need to bring into the apartments? Do I need a dish on the roof? What equipment do I need to allow for in the utility cupboards? Those are the sort of questions that I need an answer. Much appreciated. 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Yeebs123 wrote:

Those are the sort of questions that I need an answer.

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Not sure you should really be sourcing that from the (admittedly talented) amateurs who post here ; )

Seriously, sort out internet access as the main (and frankly only) priority: in an MDU that's not a trivial task in itself.

[Chodley]

Is that not what's in the doc I linked?

For everything other than freeview terrestrial (needs an aerial plus distribution) and Sky (needs a dish plus distribution) you need whatever the local fibre ISP can provide. E.g. (though this is more for retrofit) https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/04/full-fibre-uk-isp-hyperoptic-adopt-invisilight-to-cut-...

As Daniel pointed out, this is all going to be done via those internet connections within 10 years but I think there's a short maybe 5 year window where a communal dish is still relevant.

Should you maybe be subbing this to a specialist?

[Yeebs123]

Haha, the problem is I am responsible for designing it before it gets builts so I should really know to inform the client. 

[TimmyBGood]

@Yeebs123 

Just to clarify: you aren't contacting Sky by posting here. 

We are customers who really should be using our time in better ways.

Sky don't do MDU installations themselves: they connect their boxes to previously installed distribution systems. 

For due diligence purposes you are going to have to pay (a lot) to a specialist contractor just for a specification.