Connecting two tv's to one sky box

clueless1

Hi, I am after some technical help please.
I am trying to connect another tv to my sky box which I know can only watch the same program as the first one.
I have connected one coaxal lead direct from 2nd tv ariel port to the RF2 port on sky box. I have checked the sky channel is 68 and that the RF port is on in the services option on the sky box. I have selected channel 68 on 2nd tv but I am not getting anything on screen. What am I doing wrong?
Any help appreicated. Thanks

Kurtis_Blue

Put the other TV into "analogue" mode and tune, the TV will find "ch68" and store it as just another analogue channel after the main 5, it will NOT be stored on your TVs channel 68 position.

clueless1

Stupid question, How do you change to analogue? I have a very grainy picture now and I cant seem to tune it to get a decent picture.

Kurtis_Blue

If you are watching the sky channel then you are in analogue, if its grainy then it could be:

• Poor connections.
• Poor quality cable over long distance.
• Interference, try another Channel on the Sky box and retune 2nd TV.

clueless1

Woohoo finally got a picture. but at the moment the 2nd tv only shows a picture if the sky box is on and shows the current sky channel. When I switch off the sky box, the 2nd tv goes fuzzy. Is it possible to get the main 1 to 5 channels when I am no using the sky box?

Kurtis_Blue

Yes, plug a good aerial feed into the sky box.

jackthenipper

clueless1 wrote: »

Woohoo finally got a picture. but at the moment the 2nd tv only shows a picture if the sky box is on and shows the current sky channel. When I switch off the sky box, the 2nd tv goes fuzzy. Is it possible to get the main 1 to 5 channels when I am no using the sky box?

You can only watch the channels on the 2nd TV that are showing on the Sky box, if you switch the Sky box off then you will loose the picture on the 2nd set.

HTH

Kurtis_Blue

jackthenipper wrote: »

You can only watch the channels on the 2nd TV that are showing on the Sky box, if you switch the Sky box off then you will loose the picture on the 2nd set.

HTH

Er no, as I stated plug an aerial feed onto the Sky box and you will get all freeview & analogue channels and the currently showing Sky channel.

gordon2

Er no, as I stated plug an aerial feed onto the Sky box and you will get all freeview & analogue channels and the currently showing Sky channel.

But if you switch the sky box off you lose the signal as there is no power to power it.

The sky box needs to have power all the time. It could be in standby but it still needs to be plugged in and have power.

I know because that is what my setup is.

Kurtis_Blue

gordon2 wrote: »

But if you switch the sky box off you lose the signal as there is no power to power it.

The sky box needs to have power all the time. It could be in standby but it still needs to be plugged in and have power.

I know because that is what my setup is.

I see your point with regards viewing with box off, if using a magic eye use one of these splitters with DC pass as a combiner to combine the Sky and aerial feed to the one cable.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/AERIAL-SPLITTER-COMBINER-PASS-THROUGH-MFF/dp/B0018D02CO

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Satellite-Splitter-Power-Pass-Way/dp/B000E3K4RW/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1308811317&sr=1-4

clueless1

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

Yes, plug a good aerial feed into the sky box.

Sorry it took a while for me to come back but what do you mean by a ariel feed?
I do not have an ariel for my property as I dont know how to and cant really afford to pay someone to install one for me. I have tried using an internal ariel but signal was non existent, that is why I am conecting my 2nd tv to my sky box.
What I meant to say was at the moment, I can only watch the sky channel on my 2nd tv and nothing else. What I want to do on 2nd tv is to be able to flick through channels one to five and the sky channel.
Will the buying the above splitter solve this problem?
I hope I am making sense as I am so rubbish technically.