Sky cabling

scheming_gypsy

We'll start with a diagram just so you can see what I can see



Which is a rough sketch of my lounge. At the minute the TV is currently in front of the window in the corner next to where the cables come in.
I want to move it to the left hand wall to open the room up more; I've had it there previously and ran the coax through trunking. It worked but it was a bit messy and not ideal, so I don't really want to go down that route again if I can help it.

The technical stuff:
Sky+ HD so two cables coming into the room.
Sky box will connect via HDMI to either the TV directly or an AV receiver.
XBox will also plug into the TV or AV Receiver
Cyclone media player will also plug in.
5.1 speakers will plug into the AV Receiver


So my options are to:

1. have the AV stuff near the window / cables and transmit the signal to the TV via HDMI somehow - but the centre speaker will also have to be there too.
2. Connect the Sky box at the window and transmit the signal to the TV / AV receiver somehow
3. get the Sky signal to the left hand wall somehow, preferably without running coax around the wall again.

Any ideas or anybody had to do something similar?


I don't mind spending money to do it, but not silly money

debitcardmayhem

Sorry but put a hatch in the toilet wall so you can watch from there and also change channels without a magic eye . I will now put your post on full screen(not in Cooliris) so I don't have to scroll and can Imagine what you really want to do

scheming_gypsy

it's the downstairs loo, so it's for weeing only. The neighbours complain otherwise

debitcardmayhem

Where is the viewer sitting, one possibility is to change door to open out from the room

scheming_gypsy

Sofa's can go under the window or along the 'long' wall.

The door isn't in the way of viewing, it's getting the cables from the corner near the window to the left hand wall that's the problem. The door dictates that cables would have to go around it which is a ball ache

AngelsMadv

Do you not have the option of running all cables under the floor? This is what I've done.

scheming_gypsy

that did cross my mind but i can't do it right now. At some point i want to rip the laminate up and tile straight through from the front door to the back door; if i do it then I'll run cables to every possible TV location.. lol.

I'm wondering if there's a wireless sender I can use with a Sky box at each end. but it's late and i'm tired so thinking isn't going too well.

debitcardmayhem

Is the long wall an outside one and angling at the opposite side to the Window of the lounge?

neilwoods

Could run the cable along the floor past the window, and then up and around the door frame. Can get D-line cable management to hide the cable, meant for skirting boards but may do for around door frame.

http://www.tradeworks.tv/acatalog/30mm-White-D-line-Trunking-Corner-Quadrant-Profiles.html

mart44

It looks like you'll need to get the cable around the perimeter of the room as neatly as possible one way or another. Another possibility, if feasible, is to run the cable externally. Drill a hole to the outside next to where the Sky cable junction is. Bring it back inside where the TV is.

If that is a possibility, don't forget to leave slight drip-loops where the cable goes out and back in. Otherwise rainwater could end up running along the cable and perhaps inside the bricks.

scheming_gypsy

It's a mid terraced so the long wall joins on to a neighbour and the shorter wall where i want the TV is the stair wall.

Neil, that's what I did before and what I want to avoid as the trunking looks messy, it also pulls paint and plaster off the walls when you take it off.

There really has to be some other way without having to run cables, or running two big thick lengths of coax.