sky tv in living room however want it in kitchen too

[ILOVEWATCHES]

Ok

Well I've got sky tv in the living room and i want to have the same channel played on the kitchen

I under stand you can get something called a magic eye but how does it work?

thanks

[JimbobVFR]

Basically older sky and skyHD boxs have a 2nd RF or aerial output you can use to send the picture to another room. This will be just about the worst picture quality possible, like tuning a TV to an old video player before Scart became universal. The magic eye uses the cable to send a remote signal back down the aerial cable to allow control.

If you have a newer box then you can add an RF output using something called an IOLink

I use a cable and eye in the bedroom and on my tiny 17" TV viewed from the other side of the room its fine but viewing any closer or a better TV I'd look at doing it another way, Downstairs the same HD box feeds a 32" screen using the scart , you could also split the HDMI if you want HD in the kitchen.

[Vipers]

Is a magic eye the same as a video sender?

[JimbobVFR]

No it's just a small eye that sits at the remote TV end of a coax cable to send the remote signal back to the sky box. You could still watch sky with just a coax cable but have no ability to control it. If you have an iOS or Android device you could use the Sky+ app for control instead of the eye and remote.

[FuzzyLogic]

If you have a newer sky box with HDMI outputs and your kitchen is not too far away, you could use a NEET HDMI splitter and take an HDMI cable through to the kitchen. I have done exactly this with a Virgin TIVO box (except it is bedroom and kitchen) and it works well.

[spiralp]

I also use a NEET HDMI splitter to feed the HD signal to my kitchen TV. In order to control the Sky box from the kitchen I use a magic eye via an I/O Link.

[FuzzyLogic]

spiralp said:

In order to control the Sky box from the kitchen I use a magic eye via an I/O Link.

Interesting.. As the Virgin TIVO box can be controlled via wireless, this is not a problem for me however I would be interested to know how that works & connects on the sky HD box.. A quick google of io link shows a box with what appears to be an old PS2 type 'keyboard' connector on it? Is this connector present on the back of the new style Sky boxes then (can't see it on google images)?

[JimbobVFR]

Yes it is, only needed if the box doesn't have an RF2 output. Only newer box's without the RF2 have the appropriate mini DIN socket.
The iolink basically adds an RF2 output to a box that doesn't have it.

Edited by JimbobVFR on Saturday 25th October 15:59

[ILOVEWATCHES]

Sounds like i have truly F**KED UP

I just brought x2 coax cables to my existing sky box - I hope picture quality is not to bad with a magic eye

Wish i asked everyone before i done this now....

Thanks