I currently use the sky + HD rf out to distribute to about 3 TVs in total.
Sky costs have gone up so much. I am considering dropping it, and replacing with Now TV which is far more pay as you use orientated.
Anyway, one issue, is that because the Sky+HD box had an RF output with a modulated signal for STB channels, you could watch on any TV in house with an analogue tuner. Obviously, quality is not amazing and it was mono but very useful none the less especially for small sets or children who aren't as fussy as me when it comes to picture quality...
So, in looking at Now TV smart boxes there is very limited outputs if I am reading correctly, - 1 single HDMI if I am following. So I would need an active HDMI splitter - 2 way and a digital tv encoder like the Labgear EM1000. I already have an active 4 way splitter to distribute. I use high quality coax mostly WF100.
I think it should work and you should get HD and stereo sound compared to the old disribution of the Sky+HD rf out.
Any issues? One thing I have in the back of my mind is if the two way HDMI splitter would cause any issues with the Now TV output especially if there are any copy protection algorythms etc. applied to the signal?
Thanks
Sky costs have gone up so much. I am considering dropping it, and replacing with Now TV which is far more pay as you use orientated.
Anyway, one issue, is that because the Sky+HD box had an RF output with a modulated signal for STB channels, you could watch on any TV in house with an analogue tuner. Obviously, quality is not amazing and it was mono but very useful none the less especially for small sets or children who aren't as fussy as me when it comes to picture quality...
So, in looking at Now TV smart boxes there is very limited outputs if I am reading correctly, - 1 single HDMI if I am following. So I would need an active HDMI splitter - 2 way and a digital tv encoder like the Labgear EM1000. I already have an active 4 way splitter to distribute. I use high quality coax mostly WF100.
I think it should work and you should get HD and stereo sound compared to the old disribution of the Sky+HD rf out.
Any issues? One thing I have in the back of my mind is if the two way HDMI splitter would cause any issues with the Now TV output especially if there are any copy protection algorythms etc. applied to the signal?
Thanks