Hi all recently had Sky HD installed in the living room and a second connection for one of the bedrooms.

I have a spare box and was wondering if it's possible to use a splitter (or something similar) and separate so the spare box can be connected in another room?

Sorry if its a really simple answer bit of a noob when it comes to sky.

Thanks in advance for any advice!!

 

You need a quad lnb as it has four outputs.... mounted on the dish. A new cable goes to old box in a different room. Sorted, I used a local independant as they are better value !

Two for Sky HD + and two spare, I have the old box hooked up to this.

HTH

DunxC

 

when sky fitted my Sky plus with multi room they fitted a quad LNB on the dish, so check the LNB and if it has 4 outputs then just buy some cable.

 

A couple of ways, if you only have one box connected to your dish, it likely still has a quad LNB so you can connect two extra cables to the dish and send them in to your 2nd sky box. You will only get the non freeview channels if you then pay for multi-room and get a 2nd viewing card, although that would also allow your 2nd box to be sky+ if that's the kind of box you have spare.

If you want to send to a 2nd TV for nothing via a skilink, your 2nd TV will not display in HD, as it takes a composite picture/sound via aerial socket - quality will suffer too.

Only one way to get HD in both rooms with one box - I think the HD Box has component out so you could send an HD component signal to your main TV nearest the sky box (you'd have to send the optical sound out to an AV receiver/surround speaker set to get sound) and send a big long HDMI round the house to the other box. You can these up to 10 metres although they're not cheap.