Cable from Sky dish to Built in Free View TV

donalg1

Hi, I have sky at home connected to my sitting room and upstairs I have a spare tv with nothing but built in Freeview at the moment i have rabbits ears in the aerial port which picks up the Irish channels digitally in surprisingly good quality.

What would happen if i was to run a cable from my satelite dish to this TV would i get any extra channels or improve on the existing channels' reception only?

MrFrisp

Hiya...

Well,,I don't think you would get anything plugging the cable straight in..Not from a sat dish anyway...You would need some sort of receiver/decoder. Then you would run your cable from the dish,to the box,then to the tv.

You could also get a Quad LNB,,and put a different box in the other room,for picking up all the free Channels.

If you do get a decoder..etc.....You'll end up with the BBC's,,ITV's..Channel 4,,Channel 5...A few movie channels...

Although,,you could get a "magic eye",via the RF outlet on the back of the sky box. But you would end up watching the same channels on both tv's.

icdg

Whatever forum this thread belongs in, its not Cable/MMDS/IPTV. After some consideration, I think Satellite is the best place for it.

ballsymchugh

you're mixing up freeview with freesat.

if you want to get extra channels using the sky dish, then you'll need a decoder, either a sky box or a freesat box.

stephendevlin

On my tv there is an option for satellite or aerial. So may be possible. Sony 40"

donalg1

Thanks for all of that, its a Sony Bravia, i will be up at the dish over the weekend so will run the cable down anyway and leave it ready for when or if i get a decoder box for it.

Thanks again