Getting a sky box for the bedroom- advice

Tattooed · 16 Oct 2007 at 17:13

Hi,
Thinking about getting sky multi room, for the bedroom and the kitchen,does that mean more cables or another sky dish?

OzZie · 16 Oct 2007 at 17:17

As far as i'm aware, it would mean a few extra wires and a new Sky box, but not a new dish. However, it may be different from when i last checked.

Tattooed · 16 Oct 2007 at 17:33

Hi,
Thanks for the reply

Can you have sky + in the sitting room and a sky box in the bedroom?

Will sky put the cables under the floor or out side of the house?

lee32uk · 16 Oct 2007 at 18:28

They will fit a 4 way lnb to your dish and run a seperate cable to each box

rubin1961 · 16 Oct 2007 at 20:44

they will run the cables on the outside and yes they will fit a quad lnb

Tattooed · 16 Oct 2007 at 21:57

Thanks

Fr0dders · 16 Oct 2007 at 22:20

well worth doing imho

you buy sky + and when they come to install, get them to recycle the old box and put it upstairs for multiroom. its what we did

and with multiroom only able to record two channels, its very handly to leave 2 things recording downstairs, for example Top Gear on Beeb 2 and something on Discovery, and still be able to channel flick upstairs.

Tattooed · 17 Oct 2007 at 00:42

Hi,
Thanks MrLOL

Does anyone know if you can if you can have the sky box at one end of the room and the tv at the other end of the room?

agw_01 · 17 Oct 2007 at 00:44

Course you can

You just need whatever length scart/HDMI/component cable is required to reach.

Corasik · 17 Oct 2007 at 10:10

Tattooed said:
Hi,
Thanks for the reply Can you have sky + in the sitting room and a sky box in the bedroom?

Will sky put the cables under the floor or out side of the house?

Sky will take the cheapest route, if you want a specific, or tidy installation, then you'll have to pay an independant to do all the cabling for you. They can install the new lmb as well if you need one. You'll need at a quad for sky+ and standard multiroom.

Tattooed · 17 Oct 2007 at 13:48

Hi,
Thanks for all the replies. Does sky multi room cost £10 for each room? if it does I think I'll just buy a SLx Link System for the tv in the kitchen.

EddScott · 17 Oct 2007 at 17:01

Tattooed said:
Hi,
Thanks for all the replies. Does sky multi room cost £10 for each room? if it does I think I'll just buy a SLx Link System for the tv in the kitchen.

How do they work?

We still got our old box from when we changed to Sky+. Just need to find someone who can run the cable upto the bedroom.

Was planning to do this and also buy a HD box off fleebay to replace our + box.

Just turned off movies so can afford the extra for HD and Multiroom.

Dracata · 17 Oct 2007 at 17:36

It means another cable through the wall and if you need more than a 4 way block (or if your dish has an older 2way block) you'll need another one on the dish.

And a multiroom subscription with sky

Tattooed · 17 Oct 2007 at 22:52

Thanks for all the replies

Begbie · 19 Oct 2007 at 02:34

Get sky multiroom in mate, that way you will get free install. Pay 10quid for the first month and if you can't justify the price xc it! If they don't let you just write in then it will be xc, trust me

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Worth it for the free install and decent freesat.