distributing sky around the house..

[hairyben]

I see you can get HDMI>DVB modulators for around £220, this plus a distro amp and a few magic eyes seems the easiest way to get a decent sky signal to 3 or 4 rooms? or is there something I'm missing?

[Chris Stott]

Not much more to get Sky Q and some minis.

[hairyben]

Chris Stott said:

Not much more to get Sky Q and some minis.

How much is not much more? Last time i checked the rates to have sky in 5 rooms with hd came to quite a bit more than the 1 box and we dont need extra channels/decoders, just the facility to use the one we have on any of several tvs

[Salesy]

Why don't you try HDMI to cat 5 with IR blast.

I have just had SkyQ put in and will be splitting the mini box to 3 rooms with this method.

Hdmi over coax is ok but the cable length is restricted, whereas over cat 5/6 it has a better range.

[megaphone]

If you want HD to all the rooms, then make sure the DVB modulator can do HD, also the TV's will need tuners capable of decoding HD.

[Chris Stott]

hairyben said:

How much is not much more? Last time i checked the rates to have sky in 5 rooms with hd came to quite a bit more than the 1 box and we dont need extra channels/decoders, just the facility to use the one we have on any of several tvs

Not sure what the latest trade up offers are... go have a look, there were some decent deals around last month.

1 Silver and 3 minis would give you 4 rooms of HD TV and access to all your recordings.

[craig1912]

Chris Stott said:

Not sure what the latest trade up offers are... go have a look, there were some decent deals around last month.

1 Silver and 3 minis would give you 4 rooms of HD TV and access to all your recordings.

That's what we did- although two minis and it costs us less than the previous three HD boxes and no set up fee.
You can always move the minis from room to room- only a power cable and hdmi lead to unplug.

[megaphone]

craig1912 said:

Chris Stott said:

Not sure what the latest trade up offers are... go have a look, there were some decent deals around last month.

1 Silver and 3 minis would give you 4 rooms of HD TV and access to all your recordings.

That's what we did- although two minis and it costs us less than the previous three HD boxes and no set up fee.
You can always move the minis from room to room- only a power cable and cdmi lead to unplug.

Problem is, that's an introductory deal, they'll jack the prices up next year. Sky don't give anything away.

[Chris Stott]

megaphone said:

craig1912 said:

Chris Stott said:

Not sure what the latest trade up offers are... go have a look, there were some decent deals around last month.

1 Silver and 3 minis would give you 4 rooms of HD TV and access to all your recordings.

That's what we did- although two minis and it costs us less than the previous three HD boxes and no set up fee.
You can always move the minis from room to room- only a power cable and cdmi lead to unplug.

Problem is, that's an introductory deal, they'll jack the prices up next year. Sky don't give anything away.

He's already got Sky... the monthly cost of Q isn't any higher than having a HD box and Multi room, so it's only the initial installation/hardware costs... and if costs increase, they'll increase for HD and Q.

[megaphone]

Chris Stott said:

megaphone said:

craig1912 said:

Chris Stott said:

Not sure what the latest trade up offers are... go have a look, there were some decent deals around last month.

1 Silver and 3 minis would give you 4 rooms of HD TV and access to all your recordings.

That's what we did- although two minis and it costs us less than the previous three HD boxes and no set up fee.
You can always move the minis from room to room- only a power cable and cdmi lead to unplug.

Problem is, that's an introductory deal, they'll jack the prices up next year. Sky don't give anything away.

He's already got Sky... the monthly cost of Q isn't any higher than having a HD box and Multi room, so it's only the initial installation/hardware costs... and if costs increase, they'll increase for HD and Q.

He hasn't got multi-room, that's the point of the thread, I'm sure Sky isn't going to give him Q with minis in every room for the same price he's paying now.

[bristolracer]

hairyben said:

I see you can get HDMI>DVB modulators for around £220, this plus a distro amp and a few magic eyes seems the easiest way to get a decent sky signal to 3 or 4 rooms? or is there something I'm missing?

Be aware there are DVB modulators which generally are SD and DVB T2 modulators which are HD.
If any of your TVs do not have HD tuners then DVB T2 will not work

But yes its a good way of sending one sky picture to multiple TVs. far better than fuzzy analogue, and no need to switch between digital tv and analogue.

[VEX]

We do it quite often on our installs for exactly the same reasons.

Works well, you just need to put up with the encoding delay of about a second when you change channels

And if you have different tv's watching the same channel there can be different processing delays between the different sets causing an audio issue.

V