Cable from Sky dish to Built in Free View TV

donalg1 · 19-05-2011 04:08PM #1

Hi, I have sky at home connected to my sitting room and upstairs I have a spare tv with nothing but built in Freeview at the moment i have rabbits ears in the aerial port which picks up the Irish channels digitally in surprisingly good quality.

What would happen if i was to run a cable from my satelite dish to this TV would i get any extra channels or improve on the existing channels' reception only?

MrFrisp · 19-05-2011 04:19PM

Hiya...

Well,,I don't think you would get anything plugging the cable straight in..Not from a sat dish anyway...You would need some sort of receiver/decoder. Then you would run your cable from the dish,to the box,then to the tv.

You could also get a Quad LNB,,and put a different box in the other room,for picking up all the free Channels.

If you do get a decoder..etc.....You'll end up with the BBC's,,ITV's..Channel 4,,Channel 5...A few movie channels...

Although,,you could get a "magic eye",via the RF outlet on the back of the sky box. But you would end up watching the same channels on both tv's.

icdg · 19-05-2011 06:31PM

Whatever forum this thread belongs in, its not Cable/MMDS/IPTV. After some consideration, I think Satellite is the best place for it.

ballsymchugh · 19-05-2011 06:38PM

you're mixing up freeview with freesat.

if you want to get extra channels using the sky dish, then you'll need a decoder, either a sky box or a freesat box.

stephendevlin · 19-05-2011 06:40PM

On my tv there is an option for satellite or aerial. So may be possible. Sony 40"

donalg1 · 20-05-2011 09:00AM

Thanks for all of that, its a Sony Bravia, i will be up at the dish over the weekend so will run the cable down anyway and leave it ready for when or if i get a decoder box for it.

Thanks again

Cable from Sky dish to Built in Free View TV

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