Sky Quad LNB Question

[LSainsbury]

Morning all,

Say you has a brand new Sky + installation and you had a quad LNB on the dish - could you output one of the spare connections (assuming Sky+ using just 2 of them) to another standard Sky receiver?

Now I believe I would need a viewing card in the 2nd Sky box, but don't Sky have some freview card or something? Not sure what channels this gives, but would there be any advantage in doing this?

I suppose basically what I'm asking is - can I have Sky+ downstairs and Std Sky upstairs - a poor mans multi room I suppose it would be called!

[dilligaf1701]

Yes you can.

[LSainsbury]

Originally Posted by Jefferson T

Yes you can.

OK - but what about the viewing card? I don't really want to be paying for a second full Sky sub.

[dilligaf1701]

You will need a freesat card from here

http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/

They are £20 if you already have a box.

[LSainsbury]

Originally Posted by Jefferson T

You will need a freesat card from here

http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/

They are £20 if you already have a box.

Gotcha.

Pitty about the channel listings - thought is was a bit better than the line up they have.

I suppose a standard digital TV (freeview) would have a similar channel line-up?

---------- Post added at 11:11 ---------- Previous post was at 11:09 ----------

Goes and checks...

Nope - different line up! Might as well stick with a freeview TV!

---------- Post added at 11:11 ---------- Previous post was at 11:11 ----------

Will just need to find a small DVR / HD Recorder now...

[dilligaf1701]

HHHmmm - freeview listings here

http://www.freeview.co.uk/channels/?__SITE=public&p[0]=channels

The choice is up to you of course, but if I could I'd probably go down the sky freesat route rather than freeview if I had to choose.

On the other hand I'd probably use a TV sender from the sky+ box so I could have the channels I'm already paying for, but if you've got family that's using it I guess that's not practical.

---------- Post added at 11:15 ---------- Previous post was at 11:13 ----------

The thomson top up tv HDD recorder is only 89.97 from Asda. (160gb HDD) There are quite a few about now. (Just make sure you get one with two tuners )

[videodj]

Or you could have multi room for £10 a month and then you get the same channels you've already got on the second box.

[LSainsbury]

Originally Posted by videodj

Or you could have multi room for £10 a month and then you get the same channels you've already got on the second box.

Don't think it's justified to be honest for the amount we would watch upstairs.

And besides - I could always take the RF2 output to the TV upstairs and add a magic eye - done this here already.