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Sending sky+ to an other room

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Old 10-01-2008, 8:34 PM   #1
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Sending sky+ to an other room

Hi,

I am having an extension built at the minute, I have sky+ in the front room on a nice big tele and I want to have a nice big tele, will be HD ready, in the extension and have Sky on that too.

I realise if I want to watch different things at the same time I will have to get multiroom but I dont think that will happen to often so I would rather not give Sky any more of my hard earned money.

I could go wired, although I wouldn't know where to start and I could go wireless but I am worried about picture quality and interference with my phones, wifi and anything else that runs in the house.

Any ideas on the best options open to me?

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Old 10-01-2008, 9:21 PM   #2
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Re: Sending sky+ to an other room

(1) Wireless option will transmit a composite picture only and depending on the signal strength and/or interference, the picture quality at the other end is invariably going to be pants.
(2) USe CT100 (or equivalent) coax cable to pipe the RF2 signal from the Sky+ to your intended new locale. THe cable can also be used for the magic eye remote control of Sky.

Option 2 it is then!
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Re: Sending sky+ to an other room

sounds like it will be option 2 then, is it easy to find and easy to do
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Re: Sending sky+ to an other room

Yeah, visit www.satcure.co.uk

They have plenty of stuff (cable and connectors) and online advice.
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