Watching Sky on a 2nd TV

[paulobrad]

I have a sky digibox plugged into my TV downstirs in the living room and I would like to be able to watch it in my bedroom upstairs. What is the best way to do this? The dish is on the other side of the house to my room so is it possible to do it remotely and have the picture sent via infrared or something? Plus, will I be able to change channel in my room? (I know u can't watch a different channel on the 2 TV's), does it matter that the tele in my room dosen't have a remote control? Thanks.

[smorodina]

You can split the output signal from the sky box at the rf out and run a long rf cable to the tv upstairs. If you don't want to deal with long cables, you could connect the sky box to a 'video sender' which re-broadcasts the signal around your house. With luck you can then tune any tv in the house in to sky. I say 'with luck' because video senders tend to have a fairly limited range and the position of walls and furniture in the house can affect them. The position of the dish has nothing to do with it, it is the box that matters. You can control the channel change using one of the devices that send remote control signals from one room to the one in which the sky box is situated.

[tracymort]

i got sky link thing from sky. cost about 40 quid including installation (cheaper if u do it yourself). you can change channel from upstairs and u get another remote with it too.

[coemgen]

We've got one , it's called a remi. Alternatively if you want to watch a different channel from the one downstairs, you will have to take out another subscription. Very costly.