Sky Digital

[DonalE]

Sky Plus has hard drive storage inside it so I'd imagine its for interacting with that.

That's what I thought too. . .

[KR's Post]

Hey guys. The sky eyes that you can get to watch Digital in differnt rooms. Exactly how do they work? Are they connected to the box.

Example as said before. Getting sky with multi room. Multi room going up in 1 bedroom the main box in living room. Can The sky eys tansport Digital to Kitchen and also to other bedroom upstiars from the main box? Please if possible give step by step!

[GavinZac]

Hey guys. The sky eyes that you can get to watch Digital in differnt rooms. Exactly how do they work? Are they connected to the box.

Example as said before. Getting sky with multi room. Multi room going up in 1 bedroom the main box in living room. Can The sky eys tansport Digital to Kitchen and also to other bedroom upstiars from the main box? Please if possible give step by step!

Every sky box has 2 outputs - one that will go direct to the tv, another that carries a small electrical charge to power a receiver. You plug in this receiver to the coaxial cable going into the second tv, and a little infra red receiver is now powered and ready to go. This will allow you to use a second remote to change the channel on the box downstairs.

If you don't want to be able to change the channel, you can just run a cable and watch what is on downstairs without any purchases bar the coaxial tv cable

[red bellied]

As I found out yesterday you will also have to power on the RF outlets in the installer set up. Go to services on the remote. Then press 4 0 1 followed by select on the remote. This will bring you to the installer menu. Go to RF outlets and toggle it on to power and save.

[geysir]

Every sky box has 2 outputs - one that will go direct to the tv, another that carries a small electrical charge to power a receiver. You plug in this receiver to the coaxial cable going into the second tv, and a little infra red receiver is now powered and ready to go. This will allow you to use a second remote to change the channel on the box downstairs.

If you don't want to be able to change the channel, you can just run a cable and watch what is on downstairs without any purchases bar the coaxial tv cable

That's a very neat built-in feature in the sky digibox.

Unfortunatly for those with a British/Irish digibox living in a country where they have "normal" tv's, you'll not hear sound out of the rf output.
To get Sky to a 2nd tv I have to take the rf signal from the DVD Recorder and send it (20m coax cable) to the kids room after boosting it.

Another neat enough idea is to get another non subs. s/h digibox. I got a panasonic tu - dsb30 (with a FTV card that was issued some years ago) for about €60 total.
Its a very responsive digibox, no lag at all with menus etc and even carries a better quality signal in bad weather than the skyplus digibox.
Probably a FTA Sat receiver would pick up all the same radio and tv channels but it couldn't at the time I got the 2nd digibox.

Then you can have all the Free channels on the main menu, if for some reason you haven't, then you can force the box to download the latest EPG software, after that the free channels will appear in the main menu.

This all assumes you have a Quad LNB
You dont mind an extra box + another effin remote +more effin cables