Two LCD Digital TV's, One Sky+box

[julian64]

Although magic eye seems to be a decent way of having most of the cake and eating it, without paying multiroom subscription, it uses coax cable to the aerial socket of the second TV.

This isn't good if the second TV is a 55" LCD showing every imperfection.

Does anyone have a solution which allows the second TV to get a digital signal.

Currently the first TV is connected via scart.

[FlossyThePig]

Where are the two TVs in relation to the Sky box?

[julian64]

one right next to it and one 25 meters away. Wifi won't seem to stretch.

[cjs]

You wont get a digital signal out the back of a Sky+ box, best you can achieve is analogue RGB video which is what you are currently getting from the scart. Only way to improve things is to run in some new cables, easiest will be a composite video and audio L&R, you'll need a scart adaptor at both ends.

My advice would be to upgrade to SkyHD then you can send HDMI over Cat5 or similar.

[julian64]

cjs said:

You wont get a digital signal out the back of a Sky+ box, best you can achieve is analogue RGB video which is what you are currently getting from the scart. Only way to improve things is to run in some new cables, easiest will be a composite video and audio L&R, you'll need a scart adaptor at both ends.

My advice would be to upgrade to SkyHD then you can send HDMI over Cat5 or similar.

how does this work without paying a mutliroom subscription, do you need a tvlink or similar, or an hdmi splitter with a remote TVlink thingy?

[matc]

julian64 said:

cjs said:

You wont get a digital signal out the back of a Sky+ box, best you can achieve is analogue RGB video which is what you are currently getting from the scart. Only way to improve things is to run in some new cables, easiest will be a composite video and audio L&R, you'll need a scart adaptor at both ends.

My advice would be to upgrade to SkyHD then you can send HDMI over Cat5 or similar.

how does this work without paying a mutliroom subscription, do you need a tvlink or similar, or an hdmi splitter with a remote TVlink thingy?

Interested in this too as I have a similar problem; I've got the 1tb HD Box.

[cjs]

matc said:

julian64 said:

cjs said:

You wont get a digital signal out the back of a Sky+ box, best you can achieve is analogue RGB video which is what you are currently getting from the scart. Only way to improve things is to run in some new cables, easiest will be a composite video and audio L&R, you'll need a scart adaptor at both ends.

My advice would be to upgrade to SkyHD then you can send HDMI over Cat5 or similar.

how does this work without paying a mutliroom subscription, do you need a tvlink or similar, or an hdmi splitter with a remote TVlink thingy?

Interested in this too as I have a similar problem; I've got the 1tb HD Box.

You keep the existing RF/Aerial cable and magic eye from RF out 2, this will allow you to change channels from the 2nd TV position. You then need to run the HDMI on a separate cable, up to 15m you'll be ok with a good HDMI cable, over that you may need to look at sending it down a Cat5. Yes you'll need an HDMI splitter from the SkyHD box.

[Digger]

Trying to understand the configs above, but thought it worth mentioning that the Sky+ app for ios in combination with the latest SkyHD software update will allow remote control of the SkyHD box via local network. SkyHD box will have to connect to the router via an ethernet cable but I believe Sky offer a wifi adapter for compatible HD boxes.