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Magic Eye Problem - Sky

Two months ago I fitted a magic eye tvlink to my kitchen tv. I followed the instructions and it worked straight away - picture, sound and i could change the Sky channels.

This morning I disconnected the link from the digibox and the Sky engineer has installed a new digibox (i signed up to a new 1/2 price 12 month contract which included a new box/dish.)
He reconnected the magic eye and did the rf2 set up thingy.

The picture and sound are back on my kitchen tv and I can use the remote to change channels but NOT Sky channels. The light is on the magic eye and the remote works fine if used on the digibox.

The Sky engineer said everything seemed set up fine and could not fix problem.

Can anyone help please.

Steve

Comments

  • startrekker
    startrekker Posts: 1,162 Forumite
    Have a look at this thread on another forum HERE.
    I dont have one so cant offer much else in advice, seems its a similar problem to yours though
    :confused:I have nothing better to do!!!!:confused:
  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Sounds as if you need to retune your TV to the channel that the Sky box (RF2)is sending out. Chances are the new sky box is using a different one to your old box.
    That gum you like is coming back in style.
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    penrhyn wrote: »
    Sounds as if you need to retune your TV to the channel that the Sky box (RF2)is sending out. Chances are the new sky box is using a different one to your old box.

    Alost certainly that is the case, the Sky Installer ( not Engineer ) should have advised you of this, any decent installer would have set it up for you.
  • Moneymaker
    Moneymaker Posts: 1,984 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    This page also has some useful tips:
    http://sam-radford.me.uk/tvlink.htm
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