New House - TV options

[JMC180]

Hi Gents,

I'm busy doing up a new home and being a relative TV newbie, (having just a single SKY HD box that I barely if ever use currently as I mostly watch sky go on my PC or ipad), I wonder if anyone can enlighten me on what to do for some TV's in my new home.

I will mainly watch (F1) in my home office where I will have a large OLED TV, this will be connected to a Sky Q box.

I will have further screens in the bedroom, guest bedroom, den/kids playroom and down the line in the games room/cinema room.

I only intend to watch sky in a couple of areas, but don't know what the best solution for getting TV content in the other areas are.

I could go for more sky Q boxes but if I didn't want pay per view content, should I run coax cables to them and use a freesat box? Can this be run off the same SKY dish? (I have taken down the aerial as it was FUGLY) Use something like TV NOW or Amazon Fire? If so, do these need an aerial or just an ethernet connection?

I'm sorry but I'm pretty tech savvy unless is Tv's at which point I'm at a complete loss.

Thanks in advance

Jacob

[megaphone]

IF you have a Sky Q box already, then they would have swapped the LNB on the dish, you cannot now use the same dish for your standard Sky or Freesat boxes. Why not just get Sky Q Mini boxes? That's the idea of Q.

I would re-instal an aerial, or put one in the loft if the signal is strong. Give each TV Freeview via ariel and possibly an ethernet connection for on demand stuff.

Edited by megaphone on Friday 7th October 08:17

Edited by megaphone on Friday 7th October 08:17

[JMC180]

Thanks for your response, could I not add a regular LNB to the dish for freesat?

[Magic919]

If you can get hold of a hybrid LNB you'll be sorted. Not sure how easy that is.

[JMC180]

Thanks but would the dish support 2 seperate LNB's perhaps?

[Magic919]

Only if you want them pointing in slightly different directions.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Sky hd boxes can work with scr lnbs.