Ive got two sky boxes , can i...

McClane54

I have got two spare sky boxes and was wondering if i could set it up to get sky

In the living room we have sky+ and alot of chanells, but want to have something in the bedroom without paying that extra £10 for multiroom

any ideas?

scheming_gypsy

toy can get something like the Sky Magic eye which will send the signal upstairs (although you'll need to run a cable). With that you'll only be able to watch what is on the main box, so you can't watch the football while the wife is watching Eastenders.

almillar

If you have Sky+ in the living room, you'll have a Quad LNB, 4 outputs from the middle of the dish, and the Sky+ will use 2 of them (watch + record, or record 2). 2 spare outputs. If you can wire these up you can take them anywhere you like in the house and plug 1 into a Sky box. Without a subscription card (you can buy one from Sky if you want for £25) you'll get just the Free To View channels, that's the unencrypted ones. With the card you'll add in Free To Air channels (the ones that ARE encrypted, but you don't need to subscribe to).

scheming_gypsy

Gratis wrote: »

The last thing that I would want to watch is football and the last thing (apart from Emmerdale, Coronation Street or Hollyoaks) that my wife would want to watch is East Enders.

But, if I did and she did, she wouldn't need a Sky box to do it: it's Free-to-Air on terrestrial.

congratulations.. seriously, i'm happy for you even though I've got absolutely no idea what you're on about.

Heinz

Using the new cable from the dish to the bedroom method, you'd get all the FTA channels (take the card out of your Sky+ box to see which channels are left and those will be the one's you'll get).