Digital/Sat TV question...

[Piglet]

Firstly I'll apologise for being very dim...and excuse myself by being female and of an age where technology has now started to pass me by....

We want to be able to watch digital TV in the bedroom. I bought a freeview box the other day without taking into account that we don't have an external aerial. It doesn't work well and I think I'll boomerang it back to John Lewis.

We have Sky downstairs and when we had the dish installed we had them put in a second output so that we could run it through to the bedroom. So rather than bugger around freeview or with digi senders from downstairs to upstairs it occurs to me that it's probably much easier to get hold of a second Sky box and card and do it that way?

So the questions are...is this a good idea or is it easier to get a digi sender and use our existing Sky box? Is it easy to get hold of a second Sky box and card? Ideally I'll like to be able to get Motors on the TV upstairs but we could probably manage with the free channels if that makes a difference.

Thank you!

[gareth h]

shouldn't be a problem, if you want a sky package check out their multiroom (you'll need a phone socket in the bedroom aswell)

[rsvmilly]

Is it practical to run a cable from your Sky box to your upstairs room?

Sky boxes have two outputs. If you ran a cable to upstairs and fitted a TV eye just before it plugged into your second tv then you could watch and control your Sky box.

[Piglet]

Thanks guys, I think I've sussed it, I've done what I should have done before I started faffing around with all this stuff and rung the small store that put our stuff in initially.

given that we've got a second LNB, we just need to cable through to the bedroom, they can sell us a second sky receiver (second hand £40) and apparently Sky will give us a mirror card for a tenner as long as the new Sky box is connected to a phone line.

So hopefully for not much more than the cost of the freeview box we can get this sorted (probably not in time to be able to sleep through the Sebring coverage this weekend for the authentic Le Mans effect!!)

[Mikey G]

If you dont want the extra channels of your main package like the freeview box you tried, you could get a freesat card which has a few more channels than freeview with nothing extra to pay and no phone line to connect.

www.freesatfromsky.com/

[mcflurry]

..or you could get a video sender for about £30-40

They plug into your existing sky box and send the signal upstairs where you plug in the other end into your telly