if i buy 2 more sky boxes, can i multi-room myself?

missile

At the risk of repeating myself

missile wrote: »

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jewls

Marty21 wrote: »

Well you wouldnt need to pay them anything if you only wanted to watch the free channels but you wouldnt be able to record them.
So if you wanted to watch the same channels you get on your main package in your living room you would have to pay the additional £10 a month, im not sure if you would get a discount for 2 multirooms but at the most I think it would be £20 a month. Your best bet would be to phone sky or check their website.

Hope this helps:)

to be able to watch the sky channels you subscribe to you would need to pay them £10 per box, AND they will need to be connected to a phone line everyone of them because you will be charged £100 if there not, believe me i have been charged, they will refund you as soon as they get feedback from the boxes in the multi rooms

hope this helps

ddoris

You could use the hd sat box from b&q to record any freesat progs to a usb stick or usb hdd, the black dish ones are better , only need one cable from lnb. Can only watch/record same channel.

Inactive

Buy Satellite Cable from eBay, never buy anything from Maplins, buy the best cable, not the cheapest stuff.

JasX

wouldn't it be easier to run extra HDMI cables from the first box out to the other rooms?

A cheap freeview box and/or TV with it built in would get you good coverage of all the 'normal' channels in all rooms independantly and you could route the premium feed wherever you wanted to watch the paid for channel and record a second for tiimeshifting if ever there is demand for more than 1 premium channel simutaneously.

Magic eye could be added but would likely need an extra cable run.