Spiltting Sky Connection.......

spanner_head

Afternoon,

I have a couple of questions about splitting the sky box connection.

Currently, I have one extension from the sky box going into a bedroom upstairs. I want to take another connection out of the sky box for another bedroom.

So is it a question of buying a standard 'Y-splitter' and plugging that into the back of the digital and bob will become my uncle?

Also, will my 'magic eye' still work?
I might buy another eye at a later stage for the other bedroom.

Thanks,
spanner_head

Tony

Y splitters are very lossy, better to use F type splitter (same type as dish connection) if you want to use majic eye though you need to use a sky digital amp in palce of splitter and use good quality cable such as CT100.

Tony

spanner_head

Thanks for your help Tony.

I will need to use the 'magic eye. So where can I get my hands on the sky digi amp?

Thanks again,
spanner_head

KdjaCL

My Sky box has 2 Tv outs ,I have it running to every room in the house (4 tvs)
I use 2 x JVC gold plated Y splitters and 2 x 30m JVC gold coaxial cabling.
3 Sky remotes working on the magic eye.

The kitchen Tv before the SKy goes into it ,it goes into a tuner card on wifes pc then back out to the kitchen TV.

No signal loss at all.

kdjac

spanner_head

Originally posted by spanner_head
Thanks for your help Tony.

I will need to use the 'magic eye. So where can I get my hands on the sky digi amp?

D'oh

Just had a look at your site Tony. I see them there!

Thanks,
spanner_head

Tony

Originally posted by spanner_head
Thanks for your help Tony.

I will need to use the 'magic eye. So where can I get my hands on the sky digi amp?

Thanks again,
spanner_head

emmmmmmmmmmmmmm pse email me dont want to fall foul of my favourite moderator
Tony

watty

A cheap Y-splitter uses resistors and gives 12 db loss, and probabily won't work "magic Eye"

A good Y-Splitter (F-Connector OR TV type) uses a little coil called a Hybrid. Some kinds are wired to allow the Magic Eye DC 9V signal, but may not allow the Magic eye RF control back up the cable. They can't be better than 6dB loss.

Cheap and "Good" is of course not directly related to Retail Price. Sometimes the "Cheap" ones are more expensive.

Always the kind with two sockets on front face with plug on rear face have proved to be cheap "resistor" kind.

All F-Connector ones I have dissasembled have been the "good" hybrid kind. Most of the Y -shaped TV connector models are also good "hybrid" kind, but usually missing the vital DC to earth blocking capacitor needed by Magic Eye.

The only nearly no loss "splitter" is the "distribution amplifier" which starts at about 15Euro and can be over 200 Euro for a top of the range F-connector professional one. Most "distribution amplfiers don't work with magic Eye as they neither pass the forward DC 9V power nor the reverse RF remote signal.
"Global" do one and there is another make I forget too.

The other "Wireless" solution to Remote Sky AND video/Audio is a RF FM 2.4GHz "video sender". These have the advantage over RF of better quality video and true stereo sound. The receiover has a built in magic eye for ANY remote and the Video Transmitter receives the Wireless Remote signal and turns it back into IR for DVD, Digibox, HiFi or VHS, whatever. None are digital (not even the "Digisender", they use a kind of minature FM Analog Satellite technology).

Or you can get a Remote only Wireless Link, which will do Digibox AND other equipment in the same room.

Tony

Originally posted by KdjaC
My Sky box has 2 Tv outs ,I have it running to every room in the house (4 tvs)
I use 2 x JVC gold plated Y splitters and 2 x 30m JVC gold coaxial cabling.
3 Sky remotes working on the magic eye.

The kitchen Tv before the SKy goes into it ,it goes into a tuner card on wifes pc then back out to the kitchen TV.

No signal loss at all.

kdjac

Good for you, the Y splitters I referred to are those cheap white plastic ones, yours are obviously much better quality. I suspect the majic eye you are using is the powermid RF type IE uses a radio link rather than the cable to pass the remote instructions?

Tony