Getting Sky to multiple screens

[cooper001]

Hi,

Helping out with things at my local rugby club. They have 1 tv and two projectors setup, out of the Sky box it goes to a HDMI to LAN converter and then goes off into the roof. The audio works fine and is going through another output to sound system, but the picture is jumpy and never 100%.

Need to look at getting it refreshed and working and probably start again, just after some advice if anyone has any experience of the best way to go about this, HDMI to LAN seems to be the way to go over long distances, could we get away with running some kind of splitter to these 3 displays centrally so we can show something on all 3 screens through just HDMI cabling?

Thanks in advance.

[996owner]

Get a HDMI splitter and a few of these

https://cpc.farnell.com/triax/310072/ptp-1080p-kit...


or this may be a better idea !

https://cpc.farnell.com/pro-signal/psg3028/hdmi-ov...

[MissChief]

cooper001 said:

Hi,

Helping out with things at my local rugby club. They have 1 tv and two projectors setup, out of the Sky box it goes to a HDMI to LAN converter and then goes off into the roof. The audio works fine and is going through another output to sound system, but the picture is jumpy and never 100%.

Need to look at getting it refreshed and working and probably start again, just after some advice if anyone has any experience of the best way to go about this, HDMI to LAN seems to be the way to go over long distances, could we get away with running some kind of splitter to these 3 displays centrally so we can show something on all 3 screens through just HDMI cabling?

Thanks in advance.

Top lurking.

Have you actually called Sky and asked them what they’d do? I’m sure they usually have a second box and viewing card at a vastly discounted price if you already have sky. They also do discounts for sports clubs and depending on what beers you sell can also provide up to 50% discounts by combining Molson Corrs and Diageo deals of you do enough barrels,

[Mr Pointy]

996owner said:

Get a HDMI splitter and a few of these:
https://cpc.farnell.com/triax/310072/ptp-1080p-kit...

or this may be a better idea!:
https://cpc.farnell.com/pro-signal/psg3028/hdmi-ov...

The second one doesn't mention if it supports HDCP so it would be a gamble on it working.

[Big Nanas]

Presumably the club have a business license with Sky to show the sport? If so, wouldn't Sky then be able to offer some options? I'd imagine just putting a splitter in would probably be against the club's contract with Sky for a single screen.
I would expect there would be financial issues if they chose to cheat the system.

By the way, top lurking. 1 post in 103 months? I won't be looking for a fast update to this thread

Edited by Big Nanas on Thursday 3rd October 09:55

[red997]

If you've not got a pukka commercial Sky sports package in place already, I wouldn't be approaching sky with that question

If however you do have a commercial package, you really need to contact Sky and find out what your options are.
They do have a commercial surveillance team, and they do (successfully) prosecute...

[996owner]

Not really sure why Sky would care if you send an output to multiple screens, its not as if you can watch different programmers using a splutter. Many places do this.
Are you saying a bar with multiple screens playing the same image would need multi screen sky contracts?

[megaphone]

You can distribute commercial Sky to multiple screens, as long as they are on the same premises. Sky 'pubs and clubs' commercial contracts usually include up to three Sky boxes within the package, so they can show three different channels at once. Again they can be distributed to multiple screens, usually via an HDMI matrix.