Sky+ distribution (magic eye)

[5chulzy]

Hi I am currently thinking of cancelling my Sky multiroom subscription as we only use the second sky box for watching tv in bed.

Now I was thinking of getting one of those magic eyes, and have a few questions.

1 - Aswell as the coaxial cable would it be worth running a scart cable up to the bedroom aswell, connected to the main scart output on the Sky+ box via a splitter box?
2 - Will the magic eye still work with both scart and coaxial connected to the second tv?
3 - Is there any benifits of scart over coaxial?
4 - Will I be able to use the Sky+ features upstairs (pause rewind etc)?

Any help kindly appreciated

5chulzy

[Old_nick]

Answers....

1. Yes you can, but I hope you realise just how many wires there are in a Scart cable. Finding the right cable and joining it will be a challenge.

2. Yes it will.

3. Yes, the picture will be clearer, and you'll get stereo sound.

4. Yes, as long as you have a magic eye.

[5chulzy]

thanks nick, will be goin ahead with this now.

just a few more

will I be able to connect the second tv to the vcr scart on the sky+ box?

the cable length needed is 10m, will this affect the picture quality?

[5chulzy]

thanks nick, will be goin ahead with this now.

just a few more

will I be able to connect the second tv to the vcr scart on the sky+ box?

the cable length needed is 10m, will this affect the picture quality?

[Old_nick]

You can use the VCR output, but I think you may lose some on-screen messages, but I can't be 100% sure of that.

You can buy 10m SCART cables - if you use a fairly good quality one, you shouldn't see any appreciable degradation in quality. The problem of course is that SCART plugs are quite large, so it's a case of knocking out quite a large hole in the wall or ceiling, or cutting the cable and rejoining it.

Use Google to find 10m SCART cable supppliers - don't go for the really expensive cables - they're a waste of money.

[Elaine Simpson]

We have sky+ and we have a sky magic eye for viewing upstairs in the bedroom, but we are getting lots of interference with the picture and the sound can anyone think of anything we can do to stop this

[Smithy99]

Change the channel number in the Sky Receiver settings and retune the TV to the new channel number.

If you have a Sky+ receiver the engineers menu is. Services, 4, 0, 1, Select.

If a Sky HD then it is. Services, 0, 0, 1, Select

Remember to save the settings.

[Elaine Simpson]

so sorry, my husband now informs me that what we have is a wireless digi sender and receiver, so I dont know if this makes any difference, I am not sure how to get into the sky receiver settings either, sorry