Digital/Sat TV question...
Discussion
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!
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!
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!!)
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!!)
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/
www.freesatfromsky.com/
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