sky advice! pls help

[Ewan154]

Hi,
We have sky + in the sitting room. We would like to have sky in the bedroom and the kitchen,does that mean more cables or another sky dish?

[chelsea.tone]

If you only wanna watch the same as the main sky just buy a video sender

Tony

[Ewan154]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I would really like to be able to watch a different channel

[horseflaps]

Originally Posted by Ewan154

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I would really like to be able to watch a different channel

then you will need multi-room, £10 extra for each room.

I hate that we have to pay just to watch what we've already paid for once, just because we want it in another room.

I wish there was a way around paying twice, or 3 times. I have 2 sky boxes, the main one in the lounge, and another in a bedroom on which we can watch only crappy channels.

[Broadz]

Originally Posted by horseflaps

then you will need multi-room, £10 extra for each room.

I hate that we have to pay just to watch what we've already paid for once, just because we want it in another room.

I wish there was a way around paying twice, or 3 times. I have 2 sky boxes, the main one in the lounge, and another in a bedroom on which we can watch only crappy channels.

But if they didn't charge you for multiroom, you would in effect be having two separate Sky subscriptions for the price of one. That is the ability to receive, and record, four separate Sky transmissions simultaneously. For only £10 more than the ability to receive only two Sky transmission simultaneously. Surely that's a good deal, not a rip-off.

If they charged you nothing for the extra subscriptions, then people would raise the question as to why they have to pay for any subscription. If you say "Well, I would only ever want to watch on either my main box or my bedroom box" then the option of a video-sender, or even taking the card out of the downstairs box and putting it in the upstairs box (as long as its not movies or sports) will work.

It is because you want to watch different things at the same time on both boxes, and therefore you actually want two separate Sky subscriptions, that pushes you down the multi-room route, and from that point of view only paying a tenner more rather than (up to) £45 more is a much cheaper option.

[InvisibleDuncan]

Broadz - by that reckoning, we should be paying the BBC a licence fee for every TV in the house!

Personally, I think that it's a cheek that we have to pay twice to see the same channels. If I pay to see them, I should be able to see them on as many TVs as I like.

[johndon]

Originally Posted by InvisibleDuncan

Personally, I think that it's a cheek that we have to pay twice to see the same channels. If I pay to see them, I should be able to see them on as many TVs as I like.

I suspect that somewhere in the agreement with Sky (although I haven't looked), your subscription allows you to view a single channel at any given time hence the charge for the multiroom as it allows you to watch 2 different channels at the same time...

John

[Broadz]

Originally Posted by InvisibleDuncan

Broadz - by that reckoning, we should be paying the BBC a licence fee for every TV in the house!

Personally, I think that it's a cheek that we have to pay twice to see the same channels. If I pay to see them, I should be able to see them on as many TVs as I like.

You can see them on as many TVs as you like. As long as it is the same programme on all these TVs. It is only if you want to watch an alternative Sky programme on a second TV that you have to pay for multiroom.

[fernandez]

Originally Posted by InvisibleDuncan

Broadz - by that reckoning, we should be paying the BBC a licence fee for every TV in the house!

Personally, I think that it's a cheek that we have to pay twice to see the same channels. If I pay to see them, I should be able to see them on as many TVs as I like.

There is a difference between paying a licence and paying subscription fees.
The licence grants you the right to operate a TV set (or sets in the same household).
With subscription fees you are paying for the right to watch a subscribed channel
Hence, even if you never watch BBC but only Sky a TV licence is still required by law

[Ewan154]

Originally Posted by chelsea.tone

If you only wanna watch the same as the main sky just buy a video sender

Tony

Would this be any good for a video sender? Would it work if one telly was in the kitchen and one was in the bedroom?

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Elec...archtype=genre