Watching Sky on two TVs without a coax cable?

Elle7

I have Sky downstairs. All the packages, new Sky HD box.

I'd like to have Sky on the upstairs TV too, but I don't really fancy giving Sky £10 a month for the privilege. The engineer mentioned getting a Sky Eye, which would connect to the box downstairs and let me use the Sky with the TV upstairs, which sounded perfect. Looking on Amazon, it appears all of these need you to run a coax cable, which would have to run all the way across the living room and up the stairs, along the landing etc. I'd really rather not! Is there another way to do this?

I do have a second Sky box, a HD box that is just under a year old, but it doesn't have a valid viewing card and I can't get one for it without paying for multiroom.

Any suggestions? They'd be much appreciated!

(PS - Apologies if I've missed anything out. I've got a throbbing headache.)

debitcardmayhem

How do you watch your Upstairs TV is it plugged into co-ax or have you got a set top aerial?

moneyuser

Search for "wireless av sender" on amazon. Not able to recommend any as I've never used one but plenty to choose from with reviews

spike7451

You can buy a wireless video sender from the likes of Argo that'd allow you to watch Sky in another room BUT it'd be the same channel as being watched on the main TV.
Or you can run a length of Coax from the dish LNB tp the other TV for your spare box,then you'd be able to view the free to air channels.

Elle7

Ahh thank you all

I don't watch TV upstairs at the moment. It doesn't get any channels - it's got a blu-ray player plugged in, and an external hard drive, but I'd like to be able to watch TV too.

I might check out wireless video senders then, that seems easiest.

Thanks again. This board is excellent

penrhyn

Would it be possible to drill a couple of holes in your walls and run the coax outside your house, that's what I did.

Avoriaz

Elle7 wrote: »

I do have a second Sky box, a HD box that is just under a year old, but it doesn't have a valid viewing card and I can't get one for it without paying for multiroom.

What TV channels do you want to watch upstairs?

You don't need to pay a Sky subscription to watch the Free to Air or Free to View programmes.

You would need to run a cable from your existing dish to the upstairs room but that can probably be done mainly externally. You wouldn't be able to record anything, nor would you be able to watch channels that require a subscription.

Another alternative is to do what we are doing. We have Sky+ HD in the living room and don't want to pay Sky any more money. I am installing HD Freesat with a Humax Foxsat HDR twin tuner box with dual recording function. I have bought a used box for about £100 on Ebay. I just need to run two cables and set everything up.

Freesat is very good. You don't get Sky Sports or Movies but it has most other channels. It uses the same dish as Sky and you probably have two spare outlets on your LNB.