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PostPosted: 22:14 - 31 May 2004    Post subject: SKY TV Reply with quote

Right, ive had cable since i was god knows how young and now ive finally convinced my dad to get sky digital Very Happy
Do any of u guys have sky and split the connection so multiple tvs can watch it in the house? Basically at the mo we've got cable (analog) and we've got the cable coming out of the wall socket and then straight into a splitter/booster and it provides channels like sky1 and skynews to all the other tvs, and then an additional channel for the box. would this be the case if i split the sky cable or would it be split but we'd onlt be able to view whatevers on the box at the time?

confusing? Very Happy

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PostPosted: 22:16 - 31 May 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

You'd only be able to view whats on the box at that time.
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PostPosted: 22:17 - 31 May 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

You need another box to decode the digital signal.

You can split the output directly, but it has a feature similar to macrovision where you get a bad picture if you boost it too much.

If you /do/ manage to get it to work on more than one TV then you have to watch the channel that is on the decoder, unless you get another box.

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PostPosted: 22:18 - 31 May 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

damn,

might just cough up the extra £10 a month to get an xtra box
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PostPosted: 22:20 - 31 May 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would like to get Sky over NTL's cable sh1te!

They updated their menu's the other day and now everything runs really slowly! Bag of filth!

Sky plus, here we come.
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PostPosted: 23:16 - 31 May 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sort your grammar out BiKeBiKeBiKe, for f*cks sake.

To answer the original question, you can split the signal yes, at home we have one of those video sender units, so it sends a signal via the magic of radio waves from downstairs to a bedroom upstairs, it also sends remote control signals back the other way so you can control the box, they can be picked up for around £70.

They're very good, unless 2 people want to watch a different channel!
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PostPosted: 07:57 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

right there'll be 2 boxes then, one for news and the spanish channel, and then i guess the one in my room for toonami Very Happy
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PostPosted: 10:29 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry abot grammer Confused

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PostPosted: 10:30 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

To be honest I'd get cable digital, we've got sky in our living room and while the channel line up etc.. are all good, Sky are a bunch of tits. Basically we had some bad weather recently and our dish moved slightly, ok no problem I thought, rang Sky and asked them to come and sort it, £60 bloody quid for them to come out, does that take the piss or what, I can't watch television and to get the Sky system fixed that I'm basically renting from them sorted I have to pay £60. Now if you were renting a television from someone would you expect to pay if it didn't work? I'm having an argument with them at the moment, if they agree not to come and take the digibox when/if I cancel my contract then I'll happily pay the £60.

Be warned, the grass isn't always greener on the otherside and I preferred my Telewest digital any day of the week.
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PostPosted: 10:40 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

We have NTL Digital its alrite but you get more channals on sky and the interactive is sh1te on ntl it takes to long to load, Only good thing bout NTL is its cheeper

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PostPosted: 10:43 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes Sky are a bunch of tits, the back of our house is no longer the back of our house because of an extenstion, we asked sky to come round and sort fair enough they said but we'll have to come one day and remove it, then come back the second day and install it again?! All for a bargain £125!

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PostPosted: 10:50 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember y i hate sky

Wen movin house the new peeps wanted sky installed while we were still dere and thy went through the ntl cable and we were still gonna liv there for another 3 weeks

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PostPosted: 11:23 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

We have been on NTL digital for a while now. If you get a box installed, keep it for a while then tell them you dont want it any more they will come take the box but leave the cable. Then you just buy a box off ebay. (Or off a mate that can get you chipped ones Wink )
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PostPosted: 11:31 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Best way is to tell em to cut it off 2 days before u move house u keep the box and the card and just reuse it (if ur new house alredy has cable in)

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PostPosted: 11:37 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Best way to do what exactally? If you mean get a cable box don't you think moving house is alittle extreem just to get an un-resgistered cable box?
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PostPosted: 11:53 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ye but it works

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PostPosted: 17:20 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

BiKeBiKeBiKe wrote:
I remember y i hate sky

Wen movin house the new peeps wanted sky installed while we were still dere and thy went through the ntl cable and we were still gonna liv there for another 3 weeks

BiKeBiKeBiKe


Err, what did you say? I've re-read this three times now and still don't get it! Sorry to sound harsh, but surely you can string a sentence together with capital letters, full stops and correct spelling? No?

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PostPosted: 17:22 - 01 Jun 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chav Translator wrote:
I remember why I hate Sky.

When moving house the new people wanted Sky installed while we were still living there and they went through the NTL cable (presumably when installing Sky they cut the NTL cable..?) and we weren't due to move out for another three weeks.

Think that's pretty accurate!

Did you actually tell them that you wanted to keep the NTL package to run alongside Sky?
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