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Basic channels through a Sky Box?????

  • 16-04-2013 12:48pm
    #1
    smokey32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭


    :oHi. Hoping someone can help me with this.
    I have Sky in the sitting room in my apartment and it runs fine. I also have an older sky box that im not using. I was wondering if its possible to set up the old sky box in the bedroom and receive any free to air channels. The tv connection in the bedroom is just the usual little round hole in the box on the wall and just takes the standard cable. I dont have a connection in the bedroon for satellite. I only have one of them and thats in the sitting room which im already using. I was under the impression that i could get the saorviev channels if i ran the connection through a sky box or am i totally wrong? And again i have no satellite connection in the bedroom.
    Any help greatly appreciated.:o


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  • #2
    Ronnie Raygun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭Ronnie Raygun


    What make & model tv are you going to use in the bedroom? It might work with Saorview without a box.

    You won't get any Irish channels free-to-air from a Sky box, even if you have a satellite connection for it.


  • #3
    joolsveer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭joolsveer


    You can't receive Saorview on a Sky box. You need an internal or external aerial.


  • #4
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    The Sky box requires a connection to the satellite dish to receive any channels, free or pay. It will not receive the Saorview channels.

    Saorview requires an aerial connected to a receiver with a Saorview tuner, TV or STB.

    What is the standard connection in the bedroom connected to?

    http://www.saorview.ie/what-is-saorview/make-the-switch/


  • #5
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Saorview uses an aerial not a satellite.
    http://www.saorview.ie/what-is-saorview/

    How could you use a Sky box?


  • #6
    smokey32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭smokey32


    Ronnie Raygun wrote: »
    What make & model tv are you going to use in the bedroom? It might work with Saorview without a box.

    You won't get any Irish channels free-to-air from a Sky box, even if you have a satellite connection for it.
    Its a bush full hd led tv. It says on the box 'with integrated freeview', but im assuming thats the english version of saorview.


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  • #7
    Ronnie Raygun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭Ronnie Raygun


    If it's the same tv you posted about a couple of years back, it won't be any use for Saorview.

    If you want to use a satellite receiver in the bedroom, you'll need a separate connection from wherever the signal is distributed from.

    Another option would be to use the RF2 output on the sitting room Sky box to feed the bedroom; the bedroom aerial output might already be linked up for this purpose & you would just need a patch lead from RF2 to the wall plate in the sitting room. You could then tune in the channel currently being viewed on the sitting room box, via the bedroom tv's analogue tuner.

    Maybe you're already doing this?


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