Sky - Existing aerial & extension sockets

vansboy

Hi All!

We're in the process of 'guessing', sorry planning, where the tv should go in the new house & as all the walls are down, it makes sense to put the extension aerial cables to the other rooms.

There's a good chance we'll have Sky at some time, once we're settled & never having it before, wondered if I should...

Run the cables from a central location - thought behind the main tv, with some sort of splitter, where the existing aerial cable comes in, then through to the berooms. & use this 'till we get Sky.

Then assume we'd only get Sky on the main set, unless they sell some sort of upgrade, for watching on other sets.

There's no Virgin available in our village, so it'll be Freeview or Sky & would prefer not to spend out on a digital aerial. Am I correct in thinking the existing aerail is redundant, once you do subscribe to Sky?

Thanks in advance.

VB

sleep2much

I'd stick a few wires from where the satalite dish will be, if your going to hide wires in the wall especially. Sky+ will need 2 wires to the dish and if your going to put extra boxes in other rooms you can have a quad lnd, other options are up to you, but that's my idea.

Re old aerial; you can plug it into a freeview box or normal tv up until the big switch off in 2012, you may not need to upgrade your aerial to a high gain one.

donny-gal

I have sky in the lounge, and then a cable out of Sky into the loft (we are a bungalow) and from there to all othe rooms, and I get sky and tv on them all. I have to have a mouse if I want to change channels in the other rooms, and obviously the same channel in each room.

There is obviously a splitter in the loft, and the guy (an independent aerial fitter) changed a control inside the sky box to send power to the splitter, so I think what you are proposing with the main cable down to the proposed TV point, and one back to where you can direct them to the bedrooms should work.

Hope this helps
DG

Moneymaker

ts_aly2000 wrote: »

Run two pairs of Satellite Cable RG59B (solid) core as well. One for Sky, and one for Freeview/Terrestial Digital. It's low loss signal cable.

Nooo!

I'm fairly sure that RG59 is for security cameras and totally unsuitable for Sky or Freeview. I recommend you use WF100 which is high-quality coaxial cable with a foam dielectric. It's available in black, brown, white, red, green and yellow, which makes it easy to tell which cable comes from where.

Take a look at the eBook called "Piping TV Around the House". That should arm you with information.