Sky+HD splitter

Vakas

Vakas

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I have SKY+HD in 1 room and want to view it in another room as well, I have tried a splitter but this did not work I have read it only works for Virgin.

I have unplugged the Satellite dish 2 connection from the back of the box and it works on the other box but on my main box I can no longer pause or record.

How can I get round this problem or will I just have to get another cable installed coming direct from the dish?
 
You need to put your box into single feed mode. My apartment block only has one feed into each flat so to stop recordings failing on the second tuner I apentered the engineers menu and activated that.

Ideally you'd run another cable.
 
Would sky do it as a Multi Room ?

They would come fit a quad lamda thingy and give you a second box. But this would cost you.

Maybe an indipendant sky fitter could fit one and wire up to the second room. Then find a second hand box on ebay to watch. Probebly that way all you'll be able to watch is the free channels.

I have old multi room boxes which I do not pay for but can watch free channels.
 
Advert on the TV,
Free second sky box and free muti screen set up. No mention of how much the monthly cost is.
 
Vakas said:
I have SKY+HD in 1 room and want to view it in another room as well, I have tried a splitter but this did not work I have read it only works for Virgin.

I have unplugged the Satellite dish 2 connection from the back of the box and it works on the other box but on my main box I can no longer pause or record.

How can I get round this problem or will I just have to get another cable installed coming direct from the dish?
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The proper answer is to run one or (better still) two cables from the dish to the bedroom.

As you have found out, splitting the cable doesn't work. That's because the way satellite reception works means that each cable "drives" one of the 4 microwave receivers in a typical Sky Quad LNB to switch between different reception modes. Splitting the cable between to sat boxes results in conflicting instructions for certain channel combinations.

Each satellite input on a receiving box (Sky box) needs its own signal cable direct from the LNB (dish). There are compromises (Single Feed Mode) which means that a twin input box can get by with just one cable, but the catch is that if you want to record one channel while watching another that's in a different transmission group then the recording will fail.

Then there's technical solutions such as a stacker/destacker kit. This combines two LNB feeds at the dish, sends the combined signal down a single cable, and then splits it back to two at the receiver end. If you want full features on both boxes then you'll need two of these kits. Each kit is £100-£150. They also need power too. That's not a biggie really, but it can be a bit of a hassle adding mains extensions.

Adding the extra cable from the dish is often the cheapest solution and it's certainly the one that offers least compromises.
 
you could split the hdmi couldn't you? then one standard hdmi to livingroom tv and then hdmi to cat6 then back to hdmi in bedroom + the video over cat 6 boxes.
 
If you only want to watch the same channel as the main sky box is viewing, you can use an RF lead and a magic eye, or as suggested above a HDMI splitter.

If you are wanting to watch a different channel to the main sky box, then you will need either multiroom, or a new quad LNB and a second viewing card e.g. freesat card for your 2nd box.
 
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