Help with sky/tv coaxial install

[shimmey69]

Hi all
Basically after some advise on products and if this is possible.
I know sky install some things but don't want any exposed cable inside or out everything will be run inside cavities etc as we are having a full house refurb.
We are wanting to have sky socket in every room, downstairs will have 2 sky boxes main one for lounge abd secondary for kids front room.
Wanting to run kids front room one like a "magic eye" into all four upstairs bedrooms?
So the question is this possible??
What type of splurged would be needed??
Can it be done in HD??
Hope this makes sense?
Any help will be appreciated

[andy.blue.mini]

It's all possible, it just depends on your budget. My advice would be to get a local AV installer to come and have a look. If its a house you plan to stay in for a few years you might want to cable it for the future. Check out AV forums, lots of info on there if you want to DIY

Andy

[cjs]

To run HDMI to all rooms will require CAT5 cables and send and receive boxes, all gets a bit complicated and expensive, you can still watch the HD channels over a regular RF Coax and magic eye set up, just won't be HD quality.

For the bedrooms your best option will be a distribution amp in the loft or other central 'hub' and then cable drops to each bedroom, a single RF cable and maybe a Cat 5 can then run up to the loft from the downstairs Skybox.

In fact if you're refurbing then run Cat 5/6 everywhere, two cables to each point, every room, what about a Tv in the kitchen?

What about a TV aerial for Freeview? Again send it to the main 'hub'

Get a good local AV guy in, you need to future proof.

Edited by cjs on Thursday 26th April 08:28

[FlossyThePig]

cjs said:

you need to future proof.

The problem with "future proofing" is not knowing what is coming soon. I predict fibre optic cables will replace ethernet cables within a few years. Thunderbolt has the capability, built in to all new Macs and coming soon to PCs.

[gtidriver]

When i bought my house three years ago, i stripped out all the old aerial cables and put in a full distribution system. In my front room i have cat5 two aerial one return and four sky points. All five bedrooms, the kitchen and the study have two sky and one aerial plus cat5 points.all the cables run under the floors or down the cavitys or through cupboards then boxed in to double modular sockets. all the cables run back to the airing cupboard. so twenty eight cables into the cupboard plus the sky dish cables and the aerial cables. A system like that cost me around £200 for the sockets plus a drum of cat5,all the double back boxes plus a bit of carpentry to do the boxing in.Then theres the cable i probably got through two drums of 250 cable.Then theres the plastering.

[Silverbullet767]

HDMI Splitter boxes + Magic Eye for remote signal.

I used one of these to get sky (in HD) in the bedroom.

The splitter used was...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ClimaxDigital-1080P-Input-...

You can buy 3-way, 4 way etc....

Then add sky magic eye + some coax for the remote signal.

Job Jobbed

ETA: I used a 20M HDMI Cable, no degradation.

Edited by Silverbullet767 on Friday 27th April 15:41