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Watching sky in another room


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We have a sky box but want to buy some sort of transmitter to watch it in another room on the rare occasion. Now I understand you can't watch something different in the other room but that won't a problem.

 

I've seen the magic eye online but am I right in thinking this requires running a coxial cable from one room to another?

 

Also does anyone know of any other devices that work wirelessly and allow you to change the channel from the room your in?

 

Thanks in advance.

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Hi. Yeah the red eye requires a cable linked, and isn't in HD. I run 2 red eyes off one box.

If you can get a wireless one, I'll be all over that!

If you've got sky go, and a Xbox or PlayStation, you can effecting use that a sky box. Albeit limit channels, movies, sports, main sky ones, itv is on there now, few other.

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My parents have a wireless one to the TV in the kitchen. They can control the box from the kitchen but both rooms have to watch the same channel. They do lose a little bit of picture quality but still looks great. Can find out what box it is of you like, wasnt expensive and they have had it a few years

 

 

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Hi. Yeah the red eye requires a cable linked, and isn't in HD. I run 2 red eyes off one box.

If you can get a wireless one, I'll be all over that!

If you've got sky go, and a Xbox or PlayStation, you can effecting use that a sky box. Albeit limit channels, movies, sports, main sky ones, itv is on there now, few other.

 

That what I was worried about, don't want to go through the trouble of running wires everywhere. Not having HD isn't too big of a deal though. I do have sky go but don't have a device such as a ps4 to watch it on.

 

My parents have a wireless one to the TV in the kitchen. They can control the box from the kitchen but both rooms have to watch the same channel. They do lose a little bit of picture quality but still looks great. Can find out what box it is of you like, wasnt expensive and they have had it a few years

 

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If you could find out what one they have that would be great! :)

 

Not bothered about having to watch the same things as we will be in one room or the other.

 

The new sky box allows this, Sky q

 

You can record 4 channels watch a 5th and stream sky to another q boxes around the house, it's like multi room but wireless

 

Will look into that and see if its worth the money, thanks for the tip.

 

Just go multi room or sky Q and you can watch whatever you want, I have just gone Q and you basically get multi room plus UHD (not transmitted until August) and watch on tablets for £12 more than the std subscription.

 

Did you upgrade during your current contract and when doing so does it tie you down for another twelve months? I ask as ours is set to run out in august and I'm debating on whether to change to Virgin.

 

Unless you have a cat 5 / 5e or 6 system installed in the house, or are willing to run cables everywhere, sky q or multiroom is probably your best bet.

 

Thanks will look into Sky q later tonight. However not sure itll be worthwhile unless I stick with sky for another 12 months

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That what I was worried about, don't want to go through the trouble of running wires everywhere. Not having HD isn't too big of a deal though. I do have sky go but don't have a device such as a ps4 to watch it on.

 

 

Did you upgrade during your current contract and when doing so does it tie you down for another twelve months? I ask as ours is set to run out in august and I'm debating on whether to change to Virgin.

 

 

 

Thanks will look into Sky q later tonight. However not sure itll be worthwhile unless I stick with sky for another 12 months

 

No current contract, and yes they do tie you into an 18 month contract, they may not require you to continue on your current contract if changing,

it wasn't a problem for me as I have had sky for the last 17 years, so unlikely to go elsewhere, as I cant get Virgin in my area, and don't like BT.

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No current contract, and yes they do tie you into an 18 month contract, they may not require you to continue on your current contract if changing,

it wasn't a problem for me as I have had sky for the last 17 years, so unlikely to go elsewhere, as I cant get Virgin in my area, and don't like BT.

 

That's the thing I don't want to be tied down for another 18 months as I may want to go with virgin in 3 months time

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Also I found a solution that works for me. I bought this transmitter from Amazon:

 

Nikkai A31JL Mini 5.8Ghz Wireless TV Audio Video Sender & Receiver Kit - No interferance with Wifi. Compact Size https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003KVMYA0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_RvBzxb923MN3F

 

Got it on the same day with Amazon prime and works great only downside is that the receiving tv won't be in HD. But still very happy with it. I've included the link if anyone else is looking for a cheap solution.

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I install it for a living, i would recommend sky q myself but im biased :)

 

In this day and age i really would forget about magic eyes and rf cable to stream to another room, quality isnt great especially on these big hd tv's, new sky equipment is being made to phase tv link systems out as they are ancient technology, youd be pissed if the box needs replacing and youre told the tv link will no longer work

 

Just get a hdmi splitter and run a long hdmi cable instead of rf, digital loses no picture quality over length and youll recieve full hd in the other room

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Sky Q vote here, get the Silver Bundle though, Mini Box works though your Network to allow a 2nd Sky system in the house

 

It also allows you to watch different channels in different rooms as well a record upto 4 different things while watching something else on the main box

 

2 Tb memory as well

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