sky magic eye, anybody use/used it? results?

[WetPaint]

Has anybody got any experience of using a 'magic eye' to watch Sky tv on two tv's at once?

Im concerned that the quality is going to suffer, especially in HD when sent from room to room.

I dont actually know how it works, so im just assuming the second picture is going to be poor compared to the one that sky box is actually plugged into.

Can anybody shed any light on it?

Even better if anybody could reccomend a good brand to go for.

Thanks.

[WetPaint]

Its Sky+HD

I was aware its the same channel, yes. Throwing a party and want the same thing on in two rooms (c'mon Engelbert!)

I suppose expecting HD from a £5 piece of kit is a bit too much.

Thanks for your reply.

[kooky guy]

Dosn't the magic eye just allow the remote to be used in another room?

I thought you needed a distribution amplifier to send the picture to another room (unless you have a dedicated cable). I know my Sky box has about 5 aerial connections going to it now just to support multiroom.

[essayer]

It's very simple, but it works. As said above, you will get an analogue picture, but it's fine for the kitchen, bathroom etc.

You just need coax between the sky box and the destination TV, or you can go via a distribution amp if it supports it.

[mrmr96]

kooky guy said:

Dosn't the magic eye just allow the remote to be used in another room?

I thought you needed a distribution amplifier to send the picture to another room (unless you have a dedicated cable). I know my Sky box has about 5 aerial connections going to it now just to support multiroom.

Nope.

The Sky box has an RF-Out connection on the back, this basically emulates an old analogue TV signal and sends it up an aerial cable. You run this cable to the remote TV, and plug the magic eye between the end of the cable and that 2nd TV. The magic eye sends the remote control signals back down the wire, and at the same time the sky box sends the picture up. It's not "multiroom" and it's not "HD", it's not even digital. It just reproduces the TV picture on the other end of an analogue aerial cable.

This works fine in my household, as there's only two of us and we have the TV in the lounge with Sky HD, then use the aerial cable in the wall to run up to the loft (where the old terrestrial aerial is, which I don't use). I disconnected the aerial cable from the aerial, and as there was enough spare just ran that through the roof to the TV in the bedroom. Use a magic eye in the bedroom to control the sky box.

[hman]

You can use the coax with the magic eye on it but dont plug the coax into the telly then run a separate hd lead from box to the telly. Hey presto magic eye controlled hd tv!

[Soir]

We have a magic eye (and spare sky remote) in our bedroom.
We use a sky + Box with HD channels.
Cable goes from box up to bedroom.
Both tv's are HD ready so if we watch an HD channel in either room, the quality is the same (both HD)

[mrmr96]

Soir said:

We have a magic eye (and spare sky remote) in our bedroom.
We use a sky + Box with HD channels.
Cable goes from box up to bedroom.
Both tv's are HD ready so if we watch an HD channel in either room, the quality is the same (both HD)

What cable are you using to get the HD signal upstairs?

[essayer]

It's an interesting point, is HD content over analogue better quality than SD content .. I guess it probably is.

Also, you can get into amusing "channel changing" wars with the OH, until they work out where to turn off the RF2 power.

[s99ane]

Are there any wireless magic eye options? ie coaxial not needed. I want to watch sky on two tellies but running a coaxial through the house is not an option.
I realise I could get sky multi room but for the frequency the othe tv is used the cost is just silly

[essayer]

I ran a composite video output over 3 pairs of CAT5 using Kramer adapters, over about 30m, quality was as good as an analogue system tbh.

This left a spare pair, so I wired that up to the RF out and put a magic eye on the far end, SUPER BODGE but worked impeccably for 6 years

[Junior Bianno]

I use one to feed our basement home cinema setup. Coax to the basement just for the magic eye, and then a 15 metres HDMI cable via a Neet splitter for the picture and sound. Works flawlessly (well,it does now - was a pain in the aris to wire up) HD looks great, even on a 50" Panasonic plasma.

[Adrian W]

anonymous said:

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I wonder if this would work for sky HD

http://www.ebuyer.com/257588-xenta-wireless-hdmi-k...

[essayer]

anonymous said:

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and a very fuzzy analogue signal

[h0b0]

For clarification. Magic eyes do not give you picture! They only allow you to change channel in another room. If you are using the 2nd RF you will need coax cable from the 2nd RF to the next TV.

[mrmr96]

h0b0 said:

For clarification. Magic eyes do not give you picture! They only allow you to change channel in another room. If you are using the 2nd RF you will need coax cable from the 2nd RF to the next TV.

WTF are you on about?

[C&C]

Junior Bianno said:

I use one to feed our basement home cinema setup. Coax to the basement just for the magic eye, and then a 15 metres HDMI cable via a Neet splitter for the picture and sound. Works flawlessly (well,it does now - was a pain in the aris to wire up) HD looks great, even on a 50" Panasonic plasma.

Good to know - I'm looking to do the same thing to get HD signal upstairs to the bedroom. Multiroom is no good as want access to stuff recorded on the Sky+ box.
Do you have details of the splitter you used please?
Cheers.

[h0b0]

mrmr96 said:

h0b0 said:

For clarification. Magic eyes do not give you picture! They only allow you to change channel in another room. If you are using the 2nd RF you will need coax cable from the 2nd RF to the next TV.

WTF are you on about?

OP said:

Has anybody got any experience of using a 'magic eye' to watch Sky tv on two tv's at once?

He went on to say...

OP said:

Im concerned that the quality is going to suffer, especially in HD when sent from room to room.

and....

OP said:

I dont actually know how it works

So, OP you do not need magic eye to watch the same program on another TV you need COAX. You need magic eye to change the channel. That's what I'm on about. I read the OP and helped him. Everyone else assumed st and gave their very best answer to a question the OP had not asked.

Edited by h0b0 on Thursday 24th May 15:18

[WetPaint]

COAX then.

Thank you

[Junior Bianno]

[quote]

Good to know - I'm looking to do the same thing to get HD signal upstairs to the bedroom. Multiroom is no good as want access to stuff recorded on the Sky+ box.
Do you have details of the splitter you used please?
Cheers.


[/quote]

Here you go

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neet%C2%AE-SPLITTER-Amplif...

Works great...and judging from the reviews that seems to be the general consensus