How to get sky signal to my son's new tv in his bedroom

fluffyedgar

My son has asked for a tv in his bedroom for Christmas. I'm looking for advice on how to get a sky signal to this new television.

We have a sky multiroom subscription currently with 2 boxes, one of which is used mainly for watching football matches and play station. So this tv and box is mainly used by my son (and husband for footie matches), and is not used much the rest of the time. What I was therefore hoping to do was to send this signal upstairs to his bedroom. We have looked at many different options and I am looking for advice as to which is the best value without loss of picture quality. The options we have looked at so far are:-

1) Magic Eye - the main problem we have with this is the cabling, getting the cable from the sky of downstairs to the tv upstairs. We also already run a magic eye To use the remote control, is it possible to have 2 magic eyes running from one sky box?

2) Digital AV sender - These look like a good option, but I have no idea how good the signal quality wold be? Does anyone have experience of these?

3) Additional sky box for bedroom - I called Sky to ask about this, but although they offered me a free multiroom box, there is an installation cost of £60 plus I would have to pay another £10.25 per month for multiroom. I would be happy paying for the installation, but begrudge the extra £10.25. I remember years ago you could have a box that you could watch the same watched the same as another box without an additional subscription, but it seems this is no long possible?

Sorry to write an essay but I would be grateful for any advice from you Sky and tv experts out there!

Thanks!

Kurtis_Blue

1. Yes you can run as many eyes as you wish from one box, buy a 2 way IR pass amplifier, such as a "t120" that is powered by the sky box, one outlet cables to bedroom, one short cable for eye downstairs, by far the better option than AV senders.

Price for cable run around £65 for parts and labour for a terrace-semi detached, plus the amplifier around £18.

Or cable from dish to the room plus a freesat box, may need to upgrade the lnb to an octo if both boxes are sky+ or HD+

poppasmurf_bewdley

I use an AV sender from the Sky HD box to the TV in my spare bedroom, and the picture and sound quality is excellent.

mickaveli2001

A digisender with additional Sky remote, so that he can have a Sky remote in his bedroom to change channels from there

fluffyedgar

Sounds like the sender is going to be best then - thanks!

I popped into Maplin yesterday and was also encouraged by the fact that they would give me a refund if I wasn't happy with the signal quality as long as it was still boxed and in the same condition. Looks like I've got nothing to lose then!