Magic Eye With Virgin

damo24

Soon I'll be moving to an area which is covered by Virgin Media and am seriously considering ditching Sky, BT and Tiscali and going for a Virgin "bundle" which will save me about £15 per month.

I currently have Sky+ which I also watch in a second room and control through a magic eye. Does anyone know if it is possible to do the same with Virgin's V+ box?

cooki2222

http://www.tvlink.co.uk/tvlink.htm

think u need to get the tvlink plus item for this all to work

u109230

damo24 wrote: »

Soon I'll be moving to an area which is covered by Virgin Media and am seriously considering ditching Sky, BT and Tiscali and going for a Virgin "bundle" which will save me about £15 per month.

I currently have Sky+ which I also watch in a second room and control through a magic eye. Does anyone know if it is possible to do the same with Virgin's V+ box?

I'm thinking of ditching the exact same providers to go to VM. I also have a tvLINK/second remote control hooked up to my current Sky+ box.

I looked here http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/cable.html & found this in the 'Virgin Media in multiple rooms' section;

A Virgin Media TV set-top box connects between Virgin's cable network and one of your home's TV sets. If you want to watch the output of your Virgin Media V box on another TV set in your home, here are the options:

• [FONT=Verdana, Arial]Aerial Lead: Connect an aerial (co-ax) cable from the Virgin Media box RF output ("To TV" socket) to the co-ax aerial input of the other TV in the house. For co-ax connectors and extension leads, try [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial]maplin.co.uk[/FONT]
• [FONT=Verdana, Arial]Get an AV sender - This is a kit of a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter connects to the SCART socket on the V box and transmits the output of the V-box wirelessly to the receiver. the receiver is then connected to a second TV. Wireless AV senders are available from Argos and [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial]Maplin - NOTE: Not all AV senders work with Virgin boxes - see the AV Sender FAQ for more.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial]Note that if you are using your Virgin Media V-box to feed two TV sets, the V-box only has one output, so can only 'output' one thing at a time. If you use one of the options above, it's not possible to watch one thing (such as an on-demand video) in one room whilst watching a live TV programme from the V-box in another room.

Multiroom: If you want to be able to watch different channels over Virgin at the same time, you'll need to get extra Virgin Media V-boxes. At the time of writing, these will cost an extra £9.50 a month. An installation charge applies. You can order an additional V-box online at www.virginmedia.com, or by calling 0845 840 7777.[/FONT]

What it doesn't detail is the tvLINK/second remote control aspect of my current Sky+ setup. Hopefully that setup is compatible?:rolleyes: