After multiroom

minority

Hey guys and girls.

I am thinking about getting multi room for the bedroom (to go digital and all).

I am wondering if it is possible to get it without the £10 charge a month even if it for a period of time.

I have my line rental with them and was thinking about calling cancellation see if they could do me a deal on free line rental for the year as I called upgrades but they wanted full price for the sky+ box and I ain't prepared to pay all that.

What the number for cancellations anyways?

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

Have you only got a normal digibox at the moment or are you after another Sky+ box?

The price for the Sky+ box according to the Sky website is £49 if you're upgrading from a normal digibox. Unfortunately there is a £60 install charge.

You may be able to haggle reduced costs for the box and/or install, but it's unlikely they'll waive the multiroom monthly fee.

parallax_20

The only time you need to have multi-room is if you're planning on watching two different sky channels from two different rooms. Otherwise I would suggest getting a video sender for £30 to control your main box (in living room) from your bedroom. This is the setup I used to have when we occupied one room at a time, normally at night when we went up to bed.

Or if you can live with Freeview, get a £15-£20 freeview box and use that in the bedroom.

What line rental are you talking about? Phone? I doubt they would be concerned about line rental subscriptions since their main business is on the TV side.

Alternatively if you have Broadband, consider moving over to Virgin if you are in a cable area. As you can get their Triple bundle (TV, Broadband, Line rental) for £25, which ultimately works out much cheaper for all 3 services. I'm in the process of switching, as I'm paying £10 multi-room, £10 broadband, £12.50 (BT) line rental. We're keeping Sky in the living room, but will have Virgin TV installed in bedroom. So £7.50 a month saving, we're mainly moving for the broadband as we live too far from our exchange and only get 1.5MB from Sky using ADSL.

Good luck on your decision.

minority

cheers for the replies, we have freeview but would like to watch movies etc in bed. We tried a digisender but they were to fuzzy due to all the wireless gizmo I have, phone, wireless (this is beside the tv) and microwave would all interfear and respection was terrible.

I wasn't trying to get them to wave the monthly subscription but try to get them to remove my line rental for 12 months as an insentive, as I have seen others on threads here doing this with HD boxes.

Richard_Wells

You can use the RF on your sky box to do what you want.

I'm a new user so cannot post a link to a how-to. As and when I'm allowed I'll post a link for you :T

parallax_20

Yes, the MagicEye Link is also an option. I chose the wireless route because it was simpler and no need for wires. I do find the Video Sender to vary in quality. I have an old sender bought from PC world many moons ago and that works just fine for SKY, the quality is as you would expect for std def, same as RF. There is the occasional signal interference from microwave, but how many people use the microwave late at night and even so, it'll be for a couple of minutes at the most. I don't believe I've ever got interference from a mobile phone though. Otherwise move your phone away from the attenna.

You could try the cancellation route, but it can be a bit hit and miss depending on who you speak to. I've had my bluff called many times before , not just with SKY. But good luck.

minority

RF isn't really a possibility as there no way to get the cable up there hidden we have to run it along the skirting or up the stairs and we ain't prepaired to have that...heck when we got sky first time we went into the loft and threaded it through so they didn't try to come in via the kitchen and through the house leaving ugly black cable. We then placed it all behind the skirtings when we layed new laminate.

Richard_Wells

minority wrote: »

RF isn't really a possibility as there no way to get the cable up there hidden we have to run it along the skirting or up the stairs and we ain't prepaired to have that...heck when we got sky first time we went into the loft and threaded it through so they didn't try to come in via the kitchen and through the house leaving ugly black cable. We then placed it all behind the skirtings when we layed new laminate.

So how are you getting a picture to the upstairs TV currently? Or don't you currently have a TV upstairs?

Richard_Wells

@minority.

Re using the RF out. You don't have to go straight from the skybox to your upstairs TV. Assuming you're using a loft aerial for your upstairs TV then as long as you can get leads from your sky box up into the loft then you can add a "gadget" in the loft which will send the sky signal down the same coax lead as your existing analogue/freeview signal.

I have done this in my house (to several TVs) and I used this guide to do it: Distribute sky around the home.

If this is not possible in your setup then hopefully someone else reading this may find it useful. Using Magic Eyes/TV Links around the house allows you full control over the sky/sky+ box from those rooms :T

fredfro

More expensive but a 5.8ghz video sender rather than 2.8ghz would work