Newbie Satellite questions!!

Hellrazer

I sit here today with another Chorus outage--the 5th in as many weeks Ive decided to go for a full satellite system depending on price.

My requirements are as follows--Ive 4 Tvs in the house so I need Multiroom viewing.What would suit is if the 2 tvs upstairs were able to receive channels separate from the downstairs.Mostly its our daughter watching Tv in bed while we watch something different downstairs.

ITV/CH4 is a must.
Can you let me know what my best options are??
Sky??FTV???FTA.

Ive been on to Sky and a Multiroom subscription will cost me €75.00 for the second box with installation free.So that sorts the Multiroom.
Now for C4/ITV---If I buy a Freesat card from the Uk(My brother lives there)can I use it in the 2 Sky boxes that Ive got??


Im totally lost with all the options around nowadays.
Thanks
Richie

watty

Two sky boxses can be Ch5 and Ch6 on ALL the TVs in house. Master bedroom can have a remote sky eye to remote control the living room box.

Or one Sky box sub and one FTA box..

Four Sat boxes from one dish is easy enough.


ITV 1 .. ITV4 is likely FTA before you get install.

A FTA box with NO sub will do
BBC1, 2,3,4 CbbC, Cbeebies, News24, BBC Parliament
ITV1, 2, 3, 4 & ITV MM & ITV News
Sky News, CNN, Euronews
U, Fizz, Chart Hits and Vault POP Video
POP and Tiny POP cartoon / Pop video

70+ Radio stations inc all BBC Radio (12?)

Travel, Reality, Action, Extreme Sport, Performance, Musicians Ch, London, Bad Movies, Matinee Movies, True Moives, Life, Classic FM TV

30 odd Shopping channels
More than 10 Ethnic channels
More than 1/2 dozen Religious channels.


A good Sky sub starts at 21 Euro a month.

C4 and Five only with a UK address and £21 FTV card.
Swapping card is painfully slow.

watty

Yes there is a procedure to swap a card.. But you might wear out the reader.
Only needed soon for Sky3 , C4 and Five.

I imaging Sky3 work on Irish Sub anyway, so really you only need one Sky sub box feed to all TVs and a S/H sky box with FTV card or FTA sat box (non sky) if the second box can do without Ch4 & Five.

Hellrazer

The reason I was going for the Sky multiroom was because of the price.I get 2 boxes for 75 euros.And second sub is only an extra 15 pm.

What I had planned to do was get a FTV card from the UK and use that for C4 only.Dont ask---I could do without C4 but herself is thinking of Big Brother next year :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

So in effect what you are saying is to hook up the TV in the living room to the one in the master bedroom??Is this an easy task??Assuming its a matter of just feeding a cable from the box upstairs as the one in the living room will be using the scart cable??Is it standard RF tv cable out put on a sky box??

Then the other 2 TVs can take a feed from the second box and use a similar remote control (ske eye???)
Thanks again.
Richie

watty

The Sky box actually has TWO rf outs. One is designed for an inline remote eye at distant TV.

Feed aerial ( or via VHS) to RF in on Sky.

Yes you want SCART with RGB mode for local set..

watty

You can also get inexpensive 4 way amplifier in Argos compatible with Sky Remote Eye (eye sold with a spare remote, or clone cheap eye without remote), to feed from rf2.

yOU need hidden Installers menu to set it up

Services 4 0 1 Select

(nothing seems to happen when you press zero).

Then you can turn on Sky Eye power on RF2 and set/change TV channel so as no interference to existing channels tuned. Default is 68, which is TG4 in some areas!

bigpaddy2004

Hellrazer wrote:

The reason I was going for the Sky multiroom was because of the price.I get 2 boxes for 75 euros.And second sub is only an extra 15 pm.

Sky have reduced the cost of a second subbed box from €15pm today to only €5.99pm.;)

Hellrazer

bigpaddy2004 wrote:

Sky have reduced the cost of a second subbed box from €15pm today to only €5.99pm.;)

Well thats the first Sky have heard of it
Anyway signed up-installation in a week.No more Chorus \o/

bk

bigpaddy2004 wrote:

Sky have reduced the cost of a second subbed box from €15pm today to only €5.99pm.;)

Really, that would be cool, the cost of multiroom viewing is my main gripe (along with the cost of Sky+) about Sky. However there isn't anything on the site about it yet abd no press release.

Hellrazer

Two more questions.
Is it easy to tune extra channels in on a Digibox??And how many channels do they store??
Sorry for the stupid basic questions but searching seems to be disabled again.
Thanks again.
Richie

Tony

Hellrazer wrote:

Two more questions.
Is it easy to tune extra channels in on a Digibox??And how many channels do they store??
Sorry for the stupid basic questions but searching seems to be disabled again.
Thanks again.
Richie

try it for yourself http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=318569