Sky cabling

neilwoods

You can buy 10 meters of flat cable with f-plugs on.

You can send it 10 feet across the room, just the box you are using Sky+HD doesn't do it. That's sky for you, charge you an arm and a leg yet give you rubbish outdated equipment.

Another option, could run channel's up the wall, route the cables around ceiling and cover it with coving and then another channel where tv goes

bungle4by4

damm this needs a simple, but effective wireless solution. the tv sender units i've tried are poor to say the least.

i did something similar and it took me a bloody day to hide all the wiring.

scheming_gypsy

Telling me. I had to get rid of my old AV receiver because the Sky+ box wouldn't let me use HDMI to the TV and optical to the receiver. It just wouldn't have it at all.

scheming_gypsy

bungle4by4 wrote: »

damm this needs a simple, but effective wireless solution. the tv sender units i've tried are poor to say the least.

i did something similar and it took me a bloody day to hide all the wiring.

haha, i feel your pain. Sky's cable just isn't simple apparently.
It'd be great if you could use a homeplug kind of device to send it through the power lines, but no... not that easy.

That's why i was getting stressy with the 'just re-route the cable' replies. I've had my plasma on the stair wall, opposite wall, kitchen wall, in front of the window on a stand and next to the kitchen wall on a stand. As well as having that there I had trunking round the ceiling for the speaker cables and every time I moved the TV I had to redo all them. Unfortunately the stair wall is the only one that lets me make the most of the tiny room.

A.Penny.Saved

Why not convert the optical SPDIF to Coaxial and then it could be more easily transmitted via a cable? Optical SPDIF is a pile of crap IMO. Awful to route and I don't know why it is becoming so widespread unless it's due to higher bitrates/increased channels where coaxial might not work so well.

An example although there might be better versions available.

There are HDMI CAT6 extenders/transmitters which could send the main video. Then have a Coax cable to send the audio. It depends on whether your receiver has any Coaxial inputs available, it should do.

That would mean two relatively small cables from the Sky box around the room to your TV/AV equipment and all the audio from the Cyclone, coax converted from optical from Sky box into your receiver. No need to rewire your dish and no risk of disturbing the alignment.

I don't have a Sky box so don't know what connections are available on them.

almillar

Coax (even good copper) has far higher signal loss than optical cable. See also: Fibre to the cable broadband.

scheming_gypsy

In the end i spend Saturday trunking the cabling round the room. The coax is thinner than my bunch of spare which made it easier to route round the corners.
Although i forgot what length of coax I'd bought and thought i had 25 meters and needed two runs of 16 mtr; after picking up another 25 meter roll i realised i'd originally bought a 50mtr roll but it worked out well as it's a lot easier to do with two separate lengths together compared to running one and then adding another.

A.Penny.Saved

almillar wrote: »

Coax (even good copper) has far higher signal loss than optical cable. See also: Fibre to the cable broadband.

Which is pretty much irrelevant when using a digital connection because it makes no difference to the connection.

Optical connections did have some big problems at one time. Maybe that has either been forgotten about or the problems were resolved. No matter, I won't use Optical, I prefer digital Coaxial which works fine for any reasonable distance.

almillar

A.Penny.Saved - we're talking about the coax digital from the sky dish to the box. In this case, signal loss is indeed a factor to be considered. I'd be interested to know if scheming_gypsy knows his signal strength before and after the move, and how many metres, and connections, he added to the system.
I really hope you're not telling me that digital signals don't degrade? What's error correction for then?!

scheming_gypsy

It's a 16mtr extension and the signal strength hasn't dropped too much. Strength and quality are both quite high and there's only one joining block, but i'll have a proper check when I'm at home and report back,