Multi-room for €5.95??

dubmick

Is this going to happen or was it just a rumour?

byte

I've heard no mention of it since. Could still happen though. Just a matter of when.

Beta2

Hopefully it will, the sooner the better........

I'm currently waiting on it, I hope there was substance to it.

decbuck

Am I correct in saying that for sky digital, if I buy a box and viewing card from ebay for example I can hook them into my existing dish and have free multi room? I know it will only be the free channels.

I was posting on another forum this morning, but I just want to doubly confirm before I place my order.

Cheers

Charlie

Yes you are correct. You would be able to recieve all the FTA and FTV channels (C4, C5, Sky 3) without paying any fee except for the one off payment for the card which is about £20.

decbuck

and the box. how much are they? where is the best place to buy?

Charlie

If you're planning on installing it yourself then maybe ebay. You could also check out one of the boards members site satellite.ie. A standard digibox isn't to expensive. However if you went multiroom with sky for a year you'd get the box and installation for €180 plus have all your channels in anothet room for the yaer and after 12 months just drop the multiroom subscription.

decbuck

But I have no phone line so will it work. Am i allowed to get a mutilroom subscription from sky with no phone line?

i know for normal connection it costs 37.xx

RangeR

No. As was said already, if you have a "mirror" multiroom subscription, you MUST keep all boxes connected to the SAME phoneline for the full duration of the Multiroom.

decbuck

Ok,
so a normal "single room" sky subscription and then buy a sky box and card online will get the equivalent of multiroom.

I will have to just access rte, tvs tg4 through the aerial in the extra room?

That correct?

Pal

decbuck wrote:

Ok,
so a normal "single room" sky subscription and then buy a sky box and card online will get the equivalent of multiroom.

I will have to just access rte, tvs tg4 through the aerial in the extra room?

That correct?

correct.

I got a €50 box on this forum and a €40 card off ebay. works great.


wondering if I will bother to keep the pay stuff at all ?

decbuck

Brilliant. That is what I will do so. Have you got the exact list of what you get. Do you get 50 channels or more?

richieg

I'm a little confused about something. I have sky+ and its connected to my phone line. If I get multiroom using a regupar sky box does that also have to be connected to the phone line

RangeR

ANY Sky box in the multiroom mirror sub HAS to be connected to the phone line. There are NO exceptions.

There is no confusion. Doesn't matter if it's a few regular sky boxes or a few Sk+ boxes or a mixture, they ALl have to be connected.

watty

decbuck wrote:

Brilliant. That is what I will do so. Have you got the exact list of what you get. Do you get 50 channels or more?

See http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=50772071#post50772071

Also

http://www.lyngsat.com/28east.html

Also our ICDGopedia:
http://bytelive.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Sky+Channel+Lineup

FTA (Free To Air) means ANY receiver, no card.

If the REGION is not ALL then it may not appear on a particular Sky Card on Digibox EPG. But if FTA will work via Other Channels.

FTV (Free To View) means a card is needed, which stations vary with the card (ROI, UK etc). Only UK has an actual FTV card scheme. Otherwise a subscription gets the appropriate region FTV stations. A cancelled subscription card (NOT a cancelled Card) will act as a FTV card of the region the subscription was.

yrrag1974

decbuck wrote:

Ok,
so a normal "single room" sky subscription and then buy a sky box and card online will get the equivalent of multiroom.

I will have to just access rte, tvs tg4 through the aerial in the extra room?

That correct?

May be a stupid question but how do you connect your new digibox to the satellite dish?

byte

You'll need a Quad LNB, which replaces the Single LNB you have now (the thing at the end of the dish with the cable connected to it.

The quad will allow 4 outputs, so you can have up to 4 digital receivers (Sky+ boxes use 2 outputs).

yrrag1974

byte wrote:

You'll need a Quad LNB, which replaces the Single LNB you have now (the thing at the end of the dish with the cable connected to it.

The quad will allow 4 outputs, so you can have up to 4 digital receivers (Sky+ boxes use 2 outputs).

So is this correct:

If I already have Sky + I will automatically have a quad LNB?
If I connect a standard digibox and a Sky FTV card to one of the 2 spare outputs on the LNB then I automatically have a version of Sky Multiroom - Sky + downstairs and Sky UK FTV upstairs?

If so I'm off to the shops tomorrow for some cable!!!

Blaster99

I've toyed around with getting multi-room viewing from Sky. I have a phone line but it's not easily accessible from either TV location. Do I have to get cables to a phone point just for the sake of it? Seems a bit daft.

I seem to be completely unable to decipher Sky's pricing from their web site. How much does multi-room actually cost?

watty

You can't get the mirro special offer unless both phone lines are connected till subscription is cancelled.