Sky Multiroom

[jimbo]

Hi folks,

Just got a TV for the bedroom finally (wife has wanted one for ages now). It's a new build house and I'm told by the house builder that the bedroom is "pre-wired for Sky Multiroom". The wall point has 2 SAT inputs and a tv and aerial point. What do I need to do to get Sky in the bedroom?

Didn't put any thought into it before buying the tv, figured I'd just have to connect to the 2 SAT points, but will this work? I REALLY don't want to have to give Sky any more money for a second box etc, so hoping that isn't the only option...

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[tut]

You can hook up another TV to the Sky box, but it will only stream the program that is playing.

For full Sky you will need another Sky+ box fed by two cables from the Satellite LNB, ie:- Sky Multiroom at £11.

tut

[jimbo]

But we could get away with leaving the box on downstairs and carrying on watching the same programme in the bedroom?

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[jimbo]

And if that works, what about those little boxes that can take a signal in one end and repeat it out the other in a different room? That could control the existing box downstairs

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[s29ttc]

You can use the rf out to carry the sky picture over to another tv however it will only distribute in standard definition. Watch what sky box you have as the newer ones do not have the rf and I think you need to use it io to distribute. You can control the sky box from another room using a wee magic eye.

If you want to distribute in HD, wyrestorm do kits that do this where you can use cat 5/6 if you have that running in the house. There may also be kits for distribution hd over coax but you could have a look and check.

[Corranga]

The SAT inputs would be for Sky multiroom, which would require a 2nd Sky box and multiroom subscription which is 10 or 15 quid a month I think.

Alternatively:

Freesat
You can buy a freesat box (or indeed an analogue dish viewer, though less and less channels are available in this way), and enjoy some TV via that method, though any Sky specific channels you'd loose of course.

Feed from Sky box
To do what Tut is suggesting, you'd need an RF cable out of your Sky box and into the bedroom TV. Not sure if the ports you have make this possible, so this might well involve running another cable - Scott describes another couple of issues.
This enables you to watch whatever is on the Sky box (so, do you ever want to watch different stuff at the same time...)

Freeview
Personally, I'd imagine that the RF might be from a roof aerial, meaning you'd be able to plug in a freeview box. Check if your new TV has freeview built in, if it does, try plugging it into the aerial socket for some freeview.

Finally, as a Sky subscriber, I reckon you'll have access to Sky go. Log in and see what is available on your laptop / pc, and if sufficient, there are a number of things you can buy to plug into the TV to make it a smart TV / display Sky Go on the TV.

[tut]

All recent TV's have built in Freeview as far as I know, otherwise they would just be monitors as analogue has finished.

Sky Go and Sky+ are great for viewing from a laptop or iPad. Doing that in bed now, Frasier on the iPad and tapping out on here. Stopped using the bedroom TV. If you have an HDMI socket on your laptop, if not you will have a VGA or Lightning on a Mac, you could hook that up to a full sized TV and that should be the equivalent of Multiroom.

tut

[jimbo]

Cheers for all the suggestions lads, I'm gonna have a go with various different things and see what option the wife likes best.
James

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[DDtB]

Got an offer from Sky the other day for an extra multiroom box and subscription etc... for £2.50 a month. Valid until 4th November apparently.

Practically free !!

[Scotty C]

Got an offer from Sky the other day for an extra multiroom box and subscription etc... for £2.50 a month. Valid until 4th November apparently.

Practically free !!

I just contacted Sky, they have no idea about your deal and wanted to charge me £11.25. Not worth that for the spare room where Lindsay does her ironing a couple of hours a week.

[Shug]

Actually answers a question - £11.25 a month is a bit rich just for the convenience of another screen...

[Lazydonkey]

[sales pitch]

I don't disagree that it's not cheap.....but it's not just another screen it's a full mirrored subscription with Sky+ etc in another room.

If all you want to do is stream the content of TV1 to TV2 there are clearly cheaper ways to do it.

If you've not tried SkyGO then you really should give it a shot as it's excellent....i was watching Ray Donovan on the plane home last night in superb quality. It's free for two users. The new Sky+ planner which syncs with your box on your wifi network.

[/sales pitch]

[Shug]

Yup, additional rooms will be served via Sky Go app on some cheap device (that'll also do the Netflix/iPlayer etc job) and HDMI out to TV for me, methinks, if the internet connection at the new gaff lives up to claims.

[Scotty C]

The spare room has freeview it would have just been nice for her to catch up on her sky+ when I'm watching the main tv.

I will have a look into sky go.

Cheers

[Lazydonkey]

The boxes can't currently share recordings.

Who know, they may be able to one day