Sky cabling

Toxteth_OGrady

InsideInsurance wrote: »

You have to remember that the HDMI for Sky HD only carries stereo (for some stupid reason) and 5.1 is only over optical and the OP stated they have a 5.1 speaker system.

Aware of that but initial spec was vague. 5.1 could have been for the Cyclone or the Xbox.

Hey ho, at least it's clear what SG now needs.

scheming_gypsy

Cheers... I did try to stick as information in (which is why i was getting stressy at the constant recabling options) but forgot to mention the optical cable in the first post.

I've just picked up a length of satellite / cable coax and some wood effect trunking so at least it won't look too out of place. The coax looks about the same size as the Sky one from the dish so it should be easier to run round the trunking.

Toxteth_OGrady

You could connect your Sky box to something like this unit with an HDMI to DVI cable for the video and standard optical cable:

http://www.climaxdigital.co.uk/DVI-video-SPDIF/optical-digital-audio-to-HDMI-convertor

Then take the HDMI out from that into one of the HDMI senders in post #22.

Can't see why that shouldn't work but you're looking at 230 - 250 quid.

scheming_gypsy

It's a possibility but like you say, it's not cheap. I'll just go down the cabling route for now and see how long it takes to piss me off.

neilwoods

There was an another option.

Cable again, but use flat satellite cable, eitther run along skirting board, or take of skirting and use a router to create a channel on the back of the skirting board to run the cable, Then when it reaches the door, go under the (carpet or laminate flooring, cant remember what u said u had), then do same the other side of the door

scheming_gypsy

Flat satellite cable would be useful, but a quick Google only seems to show short lengths of it, and they're all the same. It doesn't look as though you can buy a reel of it to make up yourself.

partan

have you beading over the laminate expansion gap? i've put speaker cables round a room under the beading before. not meant to be there, but they never came to any harm...

scheming_gypsy

I have BUT B&Q do this some of the beading needs replacing anyway so i can use that trunking to replace it. Run white round the door and they also do black trunking; the wall it's going on is grey so I've got some of the black to go on that wall. So hopefully it'll blend in a bit better than just white.

For 50p, Royal Mail can deliver a letter 300 miles away in under 24 hours. You can send a picture to Australia in seconds but with all the technology we have today you wouldn't think it'd be so hard to send a TV signal (and 5.1 sound), 10 feet across a room.

bungle4by4

Mmmmm...bit of a wierd idea, but if you swapped from sky+ HD to a Virgin Tivo box, would the cable connection come in from the other side of the house from the sky dish, thus aleviating the problem of running cables.

and getting a helpful bod in to do it for you for free?

scheming_gypsy

It's an inner terraced house and the wall is the stair wall, and Virgin cabled up my estate about 8 years ago but my house was built 7 years ago and they've no plans to come back and finish off.
I 'could' re-route the Sky cables along the kitchen wall instead of over the roof, along the ceiling in the kitchen, in the pantry and out through the hole in the skirting board I'd drilled for the freezer plug - which uses the same plug socket the TV will be going in to. but again it's a ball ache just to move the TV 10 feet.
The easiest fix would be to swap my lounge and bedroom around !