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Old 07-02-2006, 3:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
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First System - Planning Advice



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

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Old 07-02-2006, 6:29 PM   #2 (permalink)
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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!

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