we have a sky box feedin the TV below it, and a TV in another room. what i want to do now is split the cable and have it goin to a 2nd room. have had a quick look at splitters, but some are active and some are passive. whats the difference? also, would it be possible for both TV's in other rooms to control the main box via IR cable thingy?
sky signal splitters
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Active Splitters run on power. Most active splitters also boost the signal a tiny bit to compensate for the signal that would usually be lost after passing through a passive splitter.
I don't see why you shouldn't be able to control the Sky box through the coax cable from two IR thingies. All they do is convert the IR and feed it back down the coax cable. The Sky box doesn't know where the signal comes from.
I would guess that a passive splitter might be a better bet to feed that converted IR signal back to the Sky box since the active one's signal booster probably only works one way.
I don't see why you shouldn't be able to control the Sky box through the coax cable from two IR thingies. All they do is convert the IR and feed it back down the coax cable. The Sky box doesn't know where the signal comes from.
I would guess that a passive splitter might be a better bet to feed that converted IR signal back to the Sky box since the active one's signal booster probably only works one way.
if you are going to use signal boosters (which is what i presume you mean by active splitters) with sky remote receiver units you either have to use a special bypass cable to take the signal past the booster or buy a special booster that passes the remote signal thorugh.
Unless you want to watch the same thing on both TVs, you can't just split the cable - it's not like a normal broadcast TV signal.
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i take it that the sky box is fairly old and hasn't got an RF2 output on the back ???? (because that is where you'd take the feed for an additional tv on all the latest boxes, giving no loss of signal either !)
You can operate the sky box remotely using a magic eye unit which plugs into the back of the 2nd tv and uses the coax to communicate back to the sky box, but again, you'd need the rf2 output for that !
You can operate the sky box remotely using a magic eye unit which plugs into the back of the 2nd tv and uses the coax to communicate back to the sky box, but again, you'd need the rf2 output for that !
Andrew, second supscription, £10 a month. Watch what YOU want to, not what everyone else is watching. Them magic eye thingys are all well and good as long as nobody else is watching sky at the same time, but then whats the point in having 3 TVs with Sky?
As SPARK123 has said, the Global T140 is excellent, i've had one for eight months now doing a similar job to what you want. I paid £20 inc vat & del form Global themselves and its active (ie powered) but it uses the voltage from the rf2 output so doesn't need a power supply behind your tv. The advantage of this unit is that it allows the magic eyes to run through it, a surprising number (if not the majority) of these units don't allow this to happen. As well as sky it'll distribute both video & dvd as well
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