Sky Magic Eye

[TEAK36]

Hi,

I have Sky+ Installed in my living room, and would like to be able to view Sky on the TV in my bedroom. Is this what the Magic Eye does? Do I need another Sky box in my bedroom ( I do have a spare Sky+ box)?

I had a video sender a couple of years ago, but the signal quality was very poor and I was forever having to move the receiver around to get decent signal. Does the Magic Eye work in a similar way.

[tigersam258]

The SKy Magic Eye just plugs into the co-axial cable (aerial cable) that feeds the bedroom TV. It is not necessary to have a Sky box in the bedroom as well as the magic eye simply allows you to control the main Sky box from another location in the house.You do need to ensure that the aerial cable from the back of the main box to you bedroom is unrestricted i.e. not running through another electrical unit such as a VCR or DVD recorder as this will stop the signal working.

[TEAK36]

Hi Tigersam,

Cheers for your answer, but I am still a little confused.

At the moment the TV in my bedroom has no cables or ariel fitted, it is just a flatscreen tv fixed to the wall. Will the magic eye wirelessly transmit the tv signal to my bedroom tv, or is it just for controlling the Sky + box I have downstairs? I really dont want to connect a cable all the way through my house to the tv in my bedroom.

[vehelpfulguy]

If you want the ability to watch a different program in your bedroom to the one in your living room then you need Sky Multiroom. That is what we have.

The sky engineers run a cable from the Sky dish to your bedroom and put a Sky box in there. So we have 2 Sky boxes, one in each room.

Of course you have to pay �10 a month for multiroom, but maybe you are trying to avoid paying that.

[tigersam258]

Teak, the TV must have a feed of sorts for you to get sky on it usually by co-axial or scart lead. The Magic Eye will only work with a direct cabled link from the Sky box to the TV.

How do you get BBC1 for example on the TV now?

[TEAK36]

Hi all,

many thanks for your answers.

VHG, it was not a money issue, I was just trying to find a way of doing things without having to run more cables around the house.I am not to bothered about being able to watching different channels at the same time, it would just be nice to watch a bit of tv in bed sometimes.

tigersam, we currently only use the tv in the bedroom for viewing DVD's as there is no ariel connection.

I might have to look at getting another video sender.

[tigersam258]

cool but would that allow you to change the channel on the sky box?

[markysngc]

many video senders have an IR repeter that will send the signal from the remote the other way so you will be able to change channel from the bedroom. of course you will have to buy an extra sky remote or take your excisting remote control to bed with you.

have a search here for vedeo sender

http://www.maplin.co.uk/