Feeding Sky HD to two tvs

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In the sitting room I have Sky HD and am going to put a second tv in the bedroom so I can watch tv in bed in the evenings. What is the best way to do this, can I use a HDMI splitter and run a cable to my bedroom tv and the other cable into my amp, then use magic eye to change channel? The distance from the box to second tv is under 3 metres due to flat configuration.

Borich
 
The Sky magic eye works over the classic coax aerial wire so all you have to do is run a length of coax from the sky box to the second tv and job is a goodun.

If you are going to be using a recent Tv then yes you could do that, however, is I have already said, the sky magic eyes run over coax so you would need two lots of cabling, one HDMI lead and one coax lead.
 
The tv i'm getting is a samsung Hd ready and I was thinking if i run a HDMi cable to the second tv it would give me better picture as a coax cable might result in a poor picture on the tv. To do the HDMI route I use a splitter from the sky box (one cable to Amp, other to second tv, then how do i link in the magic eye?

Borich
 
You cant do the magic eye with that route, you are also going to need a heck of a length of HDMI cable? Its not really meant for outdoor use as its best to run it around the outside of the house when rigging up a second TV. You cant use the magic eye because that gets a 9v line from the coax allowing the remote to connect to the box, personally i would rather have poorer quality and a working remote then shell out for a huge HDMi cable and no t be able to change the channel.
 
borich_planner said:
The tv i'm getting is a samsung Hd ready and I was thinking if i run a HDMi cable to the second tv it would give me better picture as a coax cable might result in a poor picture on the tv. To do the HDMI route I use a splitter from the sky box (one cable to Amp, other to second tv, then how do i link in the magic eye?

Borich
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Through classic aerial wire, like I said, you will need to run two lengths of cabling from the Sky box to the second tv, one hdmi lead from the splitter and one coax lead attaching to the aerial socket on the Sky box.

Plug the magic eye into the coax lead at the second TV, then plug both the HDMI lead and fly lead from the magic eye into the TV.
 
the HDMI distance will be minimal, so I think I can get good quality due to the short distance between the two rooms. BloodyL could you give a list of exactly what i would to achieve skyhd on both tvs?

Borich
 
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It has already been explained what you will need:
* A hdmi splitter
* A length of hdmi cable
* A length of coax cable and connectors
* A magic eye.
 
Will be doing this when I get a new tv in the next year - moving my old one from my games room to my bedroom and splitting the signal
 
This will not work unless you get a proper HDMI distribution block. A splitter will not work with SkyHD unless you only run one device at a time.

I have learnt this the hard way, if you switch on two devices on a split HDMI feed the display just blanks out on both.
 
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