Sky plus... can I

Oakesy2001uk

Oakesy2001uk

Oakesy2001uk

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I have a £10 multiroom subscription, but sky only allow 4 feeds per dish, and we have only one feed left so I have a normal sky box in my room, the rents have a sky + box and annother sky box downstairs.

My question is can I use a sky + box with only one feed if I was to by one from an auction site. Is this possible, that would allow recording and viewing but not 2 channels at the same time presumably. Is there a better way of achieving this without spending to much?
 
now I have scy in my room I'm just looking for an easy way to record programmes. I presume a DVD recorder would be the cheapest option. What are my options basically is my question.
A DVD Recorder also appeals because I currently play DVD with my Xbox 360 and although quality is good, the noise of the thing isnt great. it is a bit loud and my room is small so I have to be quite close to it.
 
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Problem is its not my house/dish or sky subscription I just have multiroom from the rents in my room. The cost of a dish and setup etc... might be easyer to just buy a recorder All I want it for is recording footie/motoGP etc... when Im not in. Either DVD ram or Hard disk. Any reccomendations or other options?

Just read about an IR lead or something that allows a dvd recorder to interact with the guide on the sky box, is this true, what recorders support it etc...
 
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Oakesy2001uk said:
now I have scy in my room I'm just looking for an easy way to record programmes. I presume a DVD recorder would be the cheapest option. What are my options basically is my question.
A DVD Recorder also appeals because I currently play DVD with my Xbox 360 and although quality is good, the noise of the thing isnt great. it is a bit loud and my room is small so I have to be quite close to it.
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Which Sky Package do you subscribe to?
 
Errr, you can run sky+ off one feed with no issues whatsoever, obviously losing the functionality of the second tuner. You can also get a splitter which will allow the second tuner to work, abeit only on the band the primary tuner is tuned to though, there are only 4, so you have a good chance of it working most of the time.

I'd do this if i didnt want to double up on LNB's or buy a larger one, or install an extra dish.
 
I was told it wouldent work at all. So If I get a sky plus box then it will work, I will be able to record but only the channel I'm watching if I get a splitter. where can I get one from, and will this definetly work?
 
A splitter, although will do what Jez says is really a last resort about the problem.

I would personally pay for a bigger dish and an 8-output LNB.

If you buy the Sky+ box second hand you could get the lot for well under £100, a lot less than the price of a decent DVDR/PVR.
 
Yes but as I say as it is my parents house and sky subscription I dont really want to be messing with it. So If I got a sky + box and a splitter then I could watch record rewind etc... one channel at any one time. And record/series link etc... whils I'm not there to watch it Thats sounds like all I need really.. where can I get this splitter?
 
only real issue with the splitter is that you'll lose some signal strength (negligible amount if the signal is strong). You could theroetically get two signals onto the one cable with a stacker/destacker (http://www.satelliteonline.co.uk/stacker_destacker_unit.htm) but this adds to the cost significantly.

Any high street electronics store should have a coax splitter, you just need F connectors to normal aerial fittings to use it (I couldn't find one that had F connector fittings but I only looked quickly).

You say its your folks house, tried convincing them of the benefits of a dish with an 8 output LNB? You already have enough sky boxes for more than a quad so its probably a good idea to have some spare for future expansion tbh.
 
Do not use a standard coax splitter!! the LNB will fail as it will be getting twice the power it needs and the 2 tuners will drive it crazy. The splitters i was referring to are for this exact purpose of allowing a second tuner to pssively view the output of an LNB tuned by something else. That stacker will not solve his problem as the entire problem is the lack of available LNB's on the house.

If i didnt want to mess with the LNB system, and was unsure about how to split the signal correctly, then i'd just buy a 2nd hand sky+ box and just use a single feed with it, all you will lose is the second tuner's functions.

PRIORITY SWITCH


>The SMART way to Connect Two Receivers to One LNB.

The Global SMART switch has one port as the priority output. When this receiver is turned on, LNB control is taken from this receiver.

If the priority receiver is turned off, the other receiver takes control of the LNB.

Both receivers can watch channels simultaneously from the LNB, but only if they require the same polarity and band.

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I'd just do that, its an easy fix and you'll find a lot of the time the channels will be on the same bands anyway, you will just have to live with a few failed recordings off the second tuner.
 
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well whatever happens I need a sky box and a splitter what splitter are you talking about Jez. So will a sky plus box record from one feed just not 2 things at once? someone told me it wouldent. I just would have to be watching or recording and not both right? So if I turned it on whilst recording it would stop recording?
 
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Do not use a coax splitter, you need a switching device as ive posted above. Sky+ box wise, i'd be having myself a pace V2
 
fantastic cheers for the edit lifesaver! where can I get it from or cant you say?

So I would even sometimes be able to watch and record different channels wit that woulden I, just be hit and miss
 
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