Setting up a system of TV - SKY - VCR - DVD and SAT Box

salvador2

Hi,

For a few years I've had system of TV - SKY - VCR and DVD working just the way I want it to work. All the equipment is sitting in the front room but we can see SKY all over the house. I paid someone to to this for me but I can't get hold of the man now.

The idea was to share the SKY and VCR all over the house, and for that he created a loop with the aerial cable that goes though the house. Every room has a TV aerial point so in you are in a bedroom you tune to channel 5 and you get the sky signal.

I have figured out how the connections work and it's quite simple really:
The signal comes in from the Sky dish onto the SKy digibox, from the RF out the signal is fed to the aerial box outside the house. From the aerial box a cable feeds the signal onto the VCR's RF in port and from the VCR's out port the signal is fed to the Sky digibox RF in, completing the loop.
From the Sky digibox's TV scart port a scart lead connects to the VCR's AV2, and from the VCR's AV1 out a leads connects to the TV.
So, you can watch a video or DVD downstairs while people can watch sky somewhere else.

All very well to this point BUT I want to add a satellite box to the system and I want to share the picture like I do with the sky tv.


The question is, WILL THIS WORK? I really need an expert opinion

Thanks in advance.

Salvador

robnye

sorry cant help, but nice to know some one else has as complicated tv/dvd/cable aerial setup as me.....

which mine doesnt work any more since having loft conversiond one......... so i am interested in the loop principle you mentioned

~added~

logically it should work, cos all you are doing is slotting the sat receiver into the string.
you might possibly lose some picture quality (i was once told that videos are notoriously bad when you pass the signal through).
do you have boosters at all?

salvador2

Well, I'm not too sure if it works. I can see a problem with having the signal of the sky and sat box on at the same time.

There are 2 or 3 aerial signal booster outside that helps boots the signal though a 7 bed house.

The loop system is quite clever I think. I had another man here to help me incorpororate the sat box and he couldn't understand the system. He was telling me I needed a compleate rewiring....

I had a look at a thing call AV management system but I don't think that would work as it's intended. I have an idea though to make it work but I need to sit down and design it on paper.

One interesting point though, at the moment I cannot share the VCR with the rest of the house. This is not because of the system but because of my VCR. The man who set up the system couldn't get it to work as it is because the VCR I have stop sending the signal through the RF when you use a scar lead to connect to the TV. He showed me that connecting it without a scart leat you could indeed send the picture round the house too. We opted to have the scart lead as we don't use the VCR a lot. I don't remember how the equipment was connected though. My son thinks that I had to tune another channel so I could see sky on 5 and VCR on 6... I don't remember any of that but I wish it was like that.

robnye

when my layout worked

we could watch cable on channel 54 on any tv (if tuned in), but you couldnt wathc different cable channels at the same time, nor record cable and wathc different channel
we could watch 2 vcrs on 2 different channels, ie 6 and 7, but also could watch them via AV1 and AV2 cos my tv had 2 scart leads..... when we got a dvd player..... all hell let loose, cos only one of my vcr had 2 scart sockets........ still i had unplugged and reset it up so many times now, it is easy... the problem i have is the picture quality is now crap, so i need to start unplugging and go back to basic setup.... too see if the picture quality is any better.