SKY TV question

Mrs_pbradley936

Can some tell me what difference it will make if I only have one cable feed going into the SKY plus HD box?

Unless I pull up the floor I cannot easily add an additional cable so might ditch multi room and go to freeview depending on the answer.

Thanks

jbainbridge

You'll loose some of the benefits of Sky+ such as recording one channel while watching/recording another. Are you sure your existing cable isn't two cables welded together (shotgun cable)?

Normal broadcasts / Freeview works differently and so you only need one cable.

Mrs_pbradley936

jbainbridge wrote: »

You'll loose some of the benefits of Sky+ such as recording one channel while watching/recording another. Are you sure your existing cable isn't two cables welded together (shotgun cable)?

Normal broadcasts / Freeview works differently and so you only need one cable.

Thanks. No I am not sure but I doubt it.

I have a SKY HD Plus in one room with 2 cables and an ordinary sky box in the kitchen (one cable) but the box has gone wrong after 9 years so we need a new one. I have freeview in the bedroom which is ok but wanted another SKY Plus box if possible in the kitchen. I do not want to lay a new floor so think it will be freeview after all.

Avoriaz

Where is your Sky dish in relation to the TV in the kitchen?

A second cable can usually be run outside and enter the kitchen via a small 7mm hole. That is the normal method of installing Sky and Freesat cables.

You don't need to dig up the floor and run it alongside the existing cable.

Also check whether the existing cable has been run in a conduit. If it has, it might be possible to use the existing cable to pull another cable or a twin cable through.

Have a look and post details of the existing cable layouts and I or others should be able to advise you of your best options.

Mrs_pbradley936

Avoriaz wrote: »

Where is your Sky dish in relation to the TV in the kitchen?

A second cable can usually be run outside and enter the kitchen via a small 7mm hole. That is the normal method of installing Sky and Freesat cables.

You don't need to dig up the floor and run it alongside the existing cable.

Also check whether the existing cable has been run in a conduit. If it has, it might be possible to use the existing cable to pull another cable or a twin cable through.

Have a look and post details of the existing cable layouts and I or others should be able to advise you of your best options.

Well imagine a square and the Sky dish is in the lower right hand corner. Go to the upper right hand corner and make a 90 degree turn (you have gone 32 feet). Go along for 20 feet. So far you have been outside all the while. Now you need to come inside and forward about 12 feet.

debitcardmayhem

Did your defunct sky box in the kitchen have a cable to the dish ? , if so then you could use a HD+ box off of that, but you cannot watch one channel and record another on that box (you can still pause live TV etc)