[The_Munter]

Do I need Multi-room?

I'm moving house in 2 weeks and I will be having a room dedicated to my home cinema set-up.

I will definatley want my SKY HD box in that room so I can control it and so the HDMI connection is close to the projector.

I still have my old SKY+ box for the living room (standard def is all I need in there) do I need multiroom? or can I connect the dish to that box too? If i can how do I go about activating the box if the card is in the sky HD box?

Any suggestion please?

[Neil Watson]

Depends on what channels you want to watch on the sky+ box.

Choices are freesatfromsky card £20 one off payment and you get to see all the free channels or multiroom which will replicate all your current SD channels. £10 p/m minimum 12month contract.

[The_Munter]

ok, thanks. Can I view recorded stuff that is on my SKY HD disk via my SKY+ box?

[Broadz]

Originally Posted by The_Munter

ok, thanks. Can I view recorded stuff that is on my SKY HD disk via my SKY+ box?

No, the boxes are independent of each other. You can only view what is recorded on each hard disc via the box that contains the hard disc. Unless you want to get into the realms of swapping hard drives over.

[The_Munter]

Sounds like I'm gonna need multiroom. I kinda resent paying another 10 quid a month though - I already have paid for the service once!

[Broadz]

You could always connect your Sky HD box to your living room TV using aerial or scart out, and watch whatever your Sky HD box is showing in the living room. That way, you don't need your Sky+ box at all (flog it on eBay). You only need a second Sky box (and possibly a second Sky subscription) if you want to watch different Sky programmes on your second TV than you do on your first.

[The_Munter]

That is true, is there a way that I can control the box if it's in another room?

yup, use a magic eye.

[The_Munter]

what's a magic eye?

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/sear...eye&category0=

[The_Munter]

OK, great. thanks for that. I'll cancel that multiroom!

[hornydragon]

Originally Posted by Broadz

You could always connect your Sky HD box to your living room TV using aerial or scart out, and watch whatever your Sky HD box is showing in the living room. That way, you don't need your Sky+ box at all (flog it on eBay). You only need a second Sky box (and possibly a second Sky subscription) if you want to watch different Sky programmes on your second TV than you do on your first.

I would look at either S-video or Component video over cat5 and RF2 for control only to the remote room this system has some advantages and disadvantages, you cant watch a film in cinem room while misss watches living in the longe but you can watch recorded programmes in both locations

[The_Munter]

Thanks, but S-video is pretty bad though for colour depth don't you think - i was hoping to connect it to my TV with scart RGB and to the PJ with HDMI.

the RF2 cable - is that the coaxial that connects the dish and the sky box?

[Broadz]

Originally Posted by The_Munter

Thanks, but S-video is pretty bad though for colour depth don't you think - i was hoping to connect it to my TV with scart RGB and to the PJ with HDMI.

the RF2 cable - is that the coaxial that connects the dish and the sky box?

RF2 is the second aerial out from the Sky HD box - only use as a last resort, because this won't even be in stereo and won't perform widescreen switching. I would agree with you, scart RGB is the best method for transferring the picture from the Sky HD box to the TV in the living room, but it depends upon the distance as to whether you will find a scart lead long enough. Not sure what HornyDragon was talking about - s-video is only relevant if your living room TV can take an s-video input, and as you say picture quality is not quite as good as RGB, and as for RJ45 (cat5), you can't use the RJ45 port on a Sky HD box to transfer the signal to anything. And who has a TV with a cat5 input?

[Neil Watson]

He is referring to RJ45 (cat5) cable in order to transmit the component output.

I.e. you use a set of twisted pair wires per phono of the component signal as mentioned in this guide (about halfway down) to building a vga cable from cat5.

http://www.myhometheater.homestead.com/vgacable.html

[cwpaters]

Have a look at this also

Digisender Vs Magic Eye - Which will give the best quality picture??

Have a look at my post on page 1 post 9 near the bottom

[hornydragon]

Originally Posted by The_Munter

Thanks, but S-video is pretty bad though for colour depth don't you think - i was hoping to connect it to my TV with scart RGB and to the PJ with HDMI.

the RF2 cable - is that the coaxial that connects the dish and the sky box?

depends on your TV and the length between locations upto 10m and you can use scart up to 100m use S-video or component over cat5 component has big advantages if your TV can accept it