Ideas for multiroom TV viewing

boiali

Hope someone might help. We currently have sky in the living room. would like extra viewing upstairs without paying sky multi-room.is there any other way?

I thought of buying freesat box but dont know if that will work in parallel with sky downstairs using the same dish or do we need something extra? we are in a rented house and therefore cannot drill extra holes.

Also, in the bedrooms there is already cable to view basic tv like BBC/channel 4 but that only gives i think 5 channels. can we increase this by freesat box or another alternative?

thanks for your help. I hope I am making sense....

fwor

You can connect more than one Sky/freesat box to one dish, but each needs its own antenna (known as an LNB). If your dish has only a single LNB (i.e. a single cable connection), it is extremely easy and cheap to replace that with a quad LNB (£5 last time I looked) that will support 4 separate receivers around the house/flat.

harleq1962

you can put on a sky compatible quad lnb, how old is your dish as the new lnbs wont fit onto the older sky dishes (lnb adapter dosent fit on the arm,) also if you have sky digital it uses 2 of the 4 connections, so you would be able to add another 2 freeview boxes,
by cable do you mean like virgin cable or a cable to an external ariel.

boiali

Thanks for the replies. My sky dish was put in June 2011. Is that too old?
Cable I mean connected to outside aerial, we found this in the house when we moved in so not sure how it works really( am a but dumb with this things).
If I buy this lnb would I need someone to climb ladder to access the dish or what?
Thanks again for help.

TimBear

We have a magic eye in the bedroom, which connects to the Sky dish with a cable and we can watch Sky in the second room without paying for multi-room.

I think we paid about £30 for the kit and installation.

You can't watch two different things in both rooms, obviously, but you can access all features on both rooms - recording etc.

partan

boiali wrote: »

Thanks for the replies. My sky dish was put in June 2011. Is that too old?
Cable I mean connected to outside aerial, we found this in the house when we moved in so not sure how it works really( am a but dumb with this things).
If I buy this lnb would I need someone to climb ladder to access the dish or what?
Thanks again for help.

i would check and see if the aeriel is compatible with digital, you could get the digital freeview channels maybe? you wouldnt need skyboxes then. my 14 yr old son chose digi terrestrial over sky freeview as theres a couple of channels on one which arent on the other

harleq1962

your sky dish should be one of the newer ones with a neck around the lnb allowing you to change the lnb( the older ones were moulded on to the lnb), you will need to remove the lnb from the arm on the dish, is normally held in place by preasure be careful when removing it. as for your ariel, you could get a digitalfreeview box or your tv might already be freeview ready.

this is th ekind of thing you need, you can see how it goes together.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SKY-QUAD-LNB-INC-LEGACY-ADAPTOR-ALL-SKY-DISH-ARMS-/180796301624?pt=UK_ConEle_SatCableFreeview_RL&hash=item2a184ca138