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Commercial Sky, anyone?

  • 10-03-2016 11:25pm
    #1
    Stinicker
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    A friend of mine runs a pub business, he subscribes to Sky Sports which is very expensive, with the proper subscription costing several thousand per year thereabouts. In his bar he currently has one large flatscreen TV and has recently installed a second flatscreen so he could show GAA on Saorview and Premier League on the Sky sports in the other side of the pub.

    I told him to get a HDMI splitter and hook up the second TV also into the Sky box so that the Sky Sports could be shown down at the other end of the bar on days when only one big game was of interest.

    Would it be legal or allowed by Sky to show the Sky Sports on two tvs from the one box in the same bar? Or would he obliged to get a Sky multiroom subsumption (costing more). The same fellow has an Inspector call from Sky every few months often during a big game and he wrote down some viewing card number and when this lad started running the business first a few years ago he was using a domestic Sky subscription but got caught and had to subscribe or they would have prosecuted; he is afraid that splitting the HDMI signal to a second TV might land him in trouble, he'd be just showing the same channel on a second tv in a different part of the bar (lounge) feeding from the same Sky box.


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  • #2
    con___manx1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    a sky eye would work either. i dont think they are illegal but not 100 percent on that to be honest. with a sky eye you can change the channel on the other tv but you have to watch the same on both tvs like with a hdmi. multi room is when you can watch different channels on different tvs its not the same so maybe its allowed.


  • #3
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    It wouldn't be uncommon for pubs to have more displays than Sky boxes, my own local does. Certain large central Dublin premises would have many more TVs than boxes.

    As to what the licensing arrangements are though, that I cannot tell you. A call to his Sky rep will set him straight.


  • #4
    boardzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭boardzz


    One subscription is fine. A hdmi splitter is better option than sky eye as you will be displaying HD in the other tv.


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