First System - Planning Advice

_gray_ · 07-02-2006, 3:31 PM

This is my (pretty strange shaped) room. The red items are being delivered this week, and Im wondering the best way to connect things. As you can see the sky+ box currently is at the opposite end of the room to the place i want the LCD, which will be wall mounted.

What Im wondering is what is the best way to connect the sky+ to the TV -

a) Buy some extension coaxial(?) cable and move the sky box to the LCD
b) Buy some long S-Video/RGB SCART and run that from the sky box all the way to the TV (approx 5m cabling)

Cheers for any words of advice

G

*jonnyt* · 07-02-2006, 6:29 PM

hi there,

if feasable, can you replace the whole of the coax to the skybox? - rather than make a join in the exsisting cable? moving the 'phone socket is easy enough.

if access to the dish is impossible, and you've got to extend the coax, a simple f-to-f ought to work, however, if you have a weak sky signal, this can sometimes degrade the signal.

moving the skybox will also help with keeping all your kit together - otherwise you'd be looking into distributing infrared too ;o)

hope all goes to plan!

Jonathan

07-02-2006, 6:29 PM	#2
jonnyt Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sheffield Thanks: Gave 1, Got 6 Posts: 203	hi there, if feasable, can you replace the whole of the coax to the skybox? - rather than make a join in the exsisting cable? moving the 'phone socket is easy enough. if access to the dish is impossible, and you've got to extend the coax, a simple f-to-f ought to work, however, if you have a weak sky signal, this can sometimes degrade the signal. moving the skybox will also help with keeping all your kit together - otherwise you'd be looking into distributing infrared too ;o) hope all goes to plan! Jonathan
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