Flat screen tv on wall with sky package, where to hide sky box where it will work ?

david4791

Hello,
We have renovated the house and put an LCD slimline tv high up on the wall, in the interests of aesthetics I would like to place the sky hd box out of sight. How can this be done without affecting remote control?. If I put it in an adjacent cupboard it wont get a signal from remote?

Sgt. Bilko 09

david4791 wrote: »

Hello,
We have renovated the house and put an LCD slimline tv high up on the wall, in the interests of aesthetics I would like to place the sky hd box out of sight. How can this be done without affecting remote control?. If I put it in an adjacent cupboard it wont get a signal from remote?

i cable tided the box to the metal bit holding the tv its working fine the past year and still no issues with it

steveon

You can hide the box in a cupboard but it mite overheat if poorly insulated but you will need to factor into consideration.

1: How to connect to tv, preferably HDMI for better picture.
2. How to get sat cables to desired location.

If its all possible then you could put a magic eye outside the cupboard to control the sky box...

david4791

Can you expand on magic eye proposal

steveon

A magic eye is a small device that will send a remote control command back to the box via an rf cable fed from the rf2 connection on the back of all Sky boxes except the new standard box.

You can get extremely small ones no bigger than your thumb in size and there great, most people would use them to send the signal to a second room but they can also be used to help hide the box, as I said earlier your only problem is how to connect this to the tv.

Liameter

The "magic eye" does not "send the signal to a second room" and does not need to be connected to the TV. The HDMI cable does that job.

Simply connect the "magic eye" to the Digibox RF2 output and set the outlet power to ON.
Explained here: http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/tvlink2.htm

david4791

Thanks Liameter