Second Sky Box

regvw

Hi All,
Got a question, I have a sky+ box in my sitting room.

I would now like to be able to watch some TV upstairs also, I have a sky box as well.

What do people think is my easiest and cheapest way to get some viewing upstairs, I don't think I want to pay sky anymore

thanks
Reg

The Cush

regvw wrote: »

I would now like to be able to watch some TV upstairs also, I have a sky box as well.

What do people think is my easiest and cheapest way to get some viewing upstairs, I don't think I want to pay sky anymore

Is the Sky box upstairs connected to the dish? If not you'll have to run a cable from the LNB on the dish to box. This will allow you to watch the free to air channels without a subscription on the Sky box but not the Irish channels.

regvw

Hey Cush,
No box is connected to nothing, will I be able to connect to dish and leave current cables on the disk for Sky

regvw

Also, was wondering is there any way to connect to the sky plus box and even watch the same channels as its showin in an other room.

Used to do this with old sky box but now both cables are taken up running the sky plus box so I have no cable left to run direct to the second sky box

Thanks
Reg

The Cush

regvw wrote: »

No box is connected to nothing, will I be able to connect to dish and leave current cables on the disk for Sky

The LNB on dish arm should have 2 spare outputs, connect the cable to one of these. It will have no effect on the Sky+ box.

regvw wrote: »

Also, was wondering is there any way to connect to the sky plus box and even watch the same channels as its showin in an other room.

Used to do this with old sky box but now both cables are taken up running the sky plus box so I have no cable left to run direct to the second sky box

To watch the channels from the Sky+ box on the second TV you will have to run a new cable from the RF2 output on the Sky+ box to the second TV, a Sky magic at the second TV will allow you to change channels on that box also.

watty

But no HD, no stereo and poorer SD than even local SCART running coax from Sky Box to other TV. It made sense [running an RF out and Magic eye] when Sky sub was cheaper, there was no freesat, Quad or distribution expensive (or didn't exist) and a decent box was very expensive. Now it hardly makes sense unless the people at main TV don't want TV on.

The Cush

watty wrote: »

Now it hardly makes sense unless the people at main TV don't want TV on.

I'm sure he's aware of the limitations as he's had this setup previously but he may want to watch a channel he's subscribed to on the main box without taking out a multiroom sub for the second box.

Antenna

watty wrote: »

Now it hardly makes sense unless the people at main TV don't want TV on.

The main TV might also have the Irish channels via terrestrial and one of those can be watched independent of the Sky box or the main TV might also be in use for games/DVDs etc so the Sky box is free for the other TV to watch what it likes on it.

If the other TV is a CRT, it will not be HD anyway, and CRTs give good pictures with a modulator feed (admittedly flatscreen TVs generally will have a degraded picture compared to CRTs with a modulator feed - or any analogue signals)

The viewers in some homes may tend to watch the same programmes, but wish to move between rooms at different times of the day, so this arrangement is/was fine for them.