HDMI Switcher equivalent for Sky Cables?

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Soldato
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Bear with me while I try and explain......

House has sky dish and one set of cables coming from the dish inside. Is it possible to feed that into a switcher box of some description inside the house and take two feeds from that to two Sky boxes in different room and switch the signal between them. Im asking this for someone else so not quite sure of the arrangement but they are not wanting to view both boxes at the same time or con Sky out of any cash, its purely to not have to run anymore external cables into the house.

Apologies if I haven't made myself very clear! If there is such a box or solution that matches the requirement can someone let me know what I need and I'll pass it on! Thanks!
 
I can't see how it would, without multiroom they'd only have one valid viewing card for both boxes and that card has to be paired to a single box at a time.
 
In flats, for example, they have quattro lnb's with a switch. A unit such as this:

http://cpc.farnell.com/optima/ms508...NG-OPTIMA-Aerial__Satellite_Equipment-AP02652

However, I believe the way they work is to have Horizontal Hi/Lo and Vertical Hi/Lo all feeding into the input box (4 inputs) and then allowing multiple outputs. Not sure it would work with a traditional LNB and only 2 switched inputs coming into the house.
 
I'm not 100% sure of the reasoning behind doing this as opposed to a signal sender, but I know the whole thing comes from a desire to not want to drill more holes in the house and the lack of a need to view on two boxes at the same time despite actually having two boxes!
 
I use a £30 HDMI over Ethernet splitter to take my sky from my living room to my bedroom. Same channel would be on both TVs but this is really not an issue.
 
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