Hi all,
My flat currently has the old school TV ariel cable straight in through the window into the back of the TV. I will be getting Sky so I was planning on running the cables from the dish and TV ariel into the loft into some kind of splitter box (if anyone knows of good ones please let me know). From there I would run the sky and TV cables down to a socket behind the TV. I would also put a TV only socket off of the splitter box into the kitchen and bedroom too so I could watch "normal" TV in the other rooms and whatever channel the sky box is on.
Anyway, I believe for sky+ to work there are 2 cables that come from the dish, is this the case? If so are they different signals or is it just a split signal? The reason I ask is because I have seen a few socket face plates with 1 TV socket and 1 Sky socket but very few with 2 x sky and 1 x tv. Would it work if I ran 1 sky cable from the loft to the socket then had a splitter before going into the sky box or do I need 2 separate sky cables right from the dish to the box?
Just to make it clear I am not after any multi-room set up or magic eyes or whatever they are called this is just a single sky box in one room that you can manually tune a tv in another room into.
Thanks
My flat currently has the old school TV ariel cable straight in through the window into the back of the TV. I will be getting Sky so I was planning on running the cables from the dish and TV ariel into the loft into some kind of splitter box (if anyone knows of good ones please let me know). From there I would run the sky and TV cables down to a socket behind the TV. I would also put a TV only socket off of the splitter box into the kitchen and bedroom too so I could watch "normal" TV in the other rooms and whatever channel the sky box is on.
Anyway, I believe for sky+ to work there are 2 cables that come from the dish, is this the case? If so are they different signals or is it just a split signal? The reason I ask is because I have seen a few socket face plates with 1 TV socket and 1 Sky socket but very few with 2 x sky and 1 x tv. Would it work if I ran 1 sky cable from the loft to the socket then had a splitter before going into the sky box or do I need 2 separate sky cables right from the dish to the box?
Just to make it clear I am not after any multi-room set up or magic eyes or whatever they are called this is just a single sky box in one room that you can manually tune a tv in another room into.
Thanks