Extreme n00b question

nellyshark

Hi,

Please feel free to move if not in the appropiate board.

Right, my question, we have sky in our sitting room and a tv in the kitchen with 1,2,3,4. Is the any "box" (receiver(?) Im not too good on the terminology) we can get to put in the kitchen for some channels like bbc, uktvg and a few film channels. Doesnt have to be immense of anything, just a few additional channels for the kitchen. Also something that we could just plug in would be good if such exists or even simple installation.

Thanks for helping a n00b.

Tony

If you have a sky minidish you need to add a quad lnb, a cable run to the kitchen and a free to air receiver.

byte

Or, you could buy a Video Sender, which would let you watch whatever is on Sky, in the kitchen.

nellyshark

Free to air receiver.

Is this essentially just like my sky box minus the sky paid channels. Does this mean I can just hook up the receiver to the sky dish n bobs your uncle. Can this be done without cables, some form of signal? What are the best receivers available?

Thanks for all your help, much appreciated.

dingding

HAve you any TV cables in your kitchen and if so do you know where they go?

Tony

nellyshark wrote: »

Can this be done without cables

Read my post again

nellyshark

Tony wrote: »

Read my post again

On ebay there are the devices that send a signal from one box to another, these no good so.

dingding - we have an aerial in the attact. Tv is connected to tv socket, dunno its proper name

L1011

They carry SCART output, and poorly at that. You *have* to have a cable from the box to the dish, there is no way around this.

byte

nellyshark wrote: »

On ebay there are the devices that send a signal from one box to another

Yes, these are video senders, which I was referring to earlier.

If the distance between the two TV's isn't much, this should be OK. Just be aware that you won't be able to watch two different Sky channels simultaneously, and they can be a pain if you've wifi in the house.

TM

Just to clarify (and not intending to cause a row here!) Tony/MYOB seem to be saying that it's cables or nothing while byte is contradicting this by saying that wireless digi/TV senders are a possibility. I'm with byte although those digisenders have their own set of pros and cons (the latter touched upon by byte).

The Cowboy

Hi there, sorry to hijack the thread, but i have similar questions.
I too am looking for a similar setup and am confused.
At the moment we have a sky+ box in one room and 4 tv`s in 4 other rooms, some of which we would like to connect up to sky, though not with multiroom.
We have an aerial in the attic and each of the 4 tv`s is connected to a socket beside them which in turn leads to the aerial in the attic for standard tv.
The 5th tv is hooked up to the sky+ box which in turn is then connected to the sky dish outside.
So, what are my options?
1.Use a video sender. So, no cables needed? Just plug and play? Problem is, we have wifi in the house, so this could interfere, as byte mentioned.

2.Add a quad lnb?, a cable running to each room? from the dish? from the digibox? and a free to air receiver? for each separate tv?

Still a few questions there about both options put forward thus far.
And also, what about costs for either option?
Option 1 requires purchasing these video senders, is that all? And are they really any good, especially if wifi is also in operation in the house?
Option 2 requires a quad lnb, cables, fta receivers? Is that the lot?
Which option is most cost effective then?

Any help is greatly appreciated guys.

Tony

No thats not the case, you need cable for a FTA box, what byte is suggesting is feed a digi sender from the existing box to watch the same channel, two entirely different scenarios

TM wrote: »

Just to clarify (and not intending to cause a row here!) Tony/MYOB seem to be saying that it's cables or nothing while byte is contradicting this by saying that wireless digi/TV senders are a possibility. I'm with byte although those digisenders have their own set of pros and cons (the latter touched upon by byte).