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Sky+ Installation

  • 10-04-2009 1:00pm
    #1
    jprender
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,386 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks just a quick one.

    In a couple of hours I have a guy coming to my house to upgrade from ordinary sky to sky+HD


    Currently a cable is coming from our dish into our attic.

    It is connected to an AMD08 amplifier ? and then there are other cables coming out of this box going to other rooms in the house.


    There seems to be 2 input connections on the box, one of which is being used at the moment.


    My question is this, will we able to get sky+HD connected to this same box, or do we have to get something else ?


    I know nothing about how all this works and as I said there is a bloke coming at 1600 to install the sky upgrade.


    Please advise soonest !!!

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    Sky HD is the same as Sky + , it uses 2 inputs from the dish LNB to the box.


  • #3
    jprender
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,386 ✭✭✭jprender


    Thanks for that.

    It all worked out ok and it is up and running.


    Another quick question if I may......


    As mentioned I have a box in my attic that has the cables from the dish going into it and then various leads going around to other rooms in the house.

    So, I have a spare sky box, and a spare viewing card. I now want to try and get the free-to-view channels in one of the other rooms. Do I just bring a cable from the tv point in said room to the back of the spare sky box ? I have tried this but keep getting the "no signal" message. I have tried it with the spare card in, and without any card, both with no joy.

    Can anyone give me a hand to get this up and running ?

    Ta.


  • #4
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭John mac


    You need to bring another cable from the LNB (on Satellite dish) to the spare box.

    you should have 2 spare connections on it.


  • #5
    jprender
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,386 ✭✭✭jprender


    Bugger.

    If I had known that yesterday, I would have got the installation guy to bring another cable from the LNB in.

    So I guess it is no free-to-view for me then unless I get the guy back again.


    So to clarify,

    with my current set-up, ie.

    2 lines coming from dish into the AMD08 in the attic, a number of cables coming from the AMD08 to various rooms in the house,

    means that whatever is being watched on my Sky+HD box on my main tv, is all that can be watched in the other rooms at the same time?

    I really should have been more prepared yesterday and got the installer to give me what i needed (besides a kick in the arse!) :pac:


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