I have run a Samsung with an Amstrad 160 Sky HD box (just used for free channels with the £25 Sky card), and a rarely used Bush DVD/Video in the living room.
In the roof space there is a distribution Remote-Link A240D Distribution Amp. and the leads to an indoor aerial and Sky Dish (on a garage at bottom of front garden to obtain signal). As well as the sky and there is a RF lead down to the kitchen/dining room.
In the kitchen/dining room and there is a Toshiba Regza 37RV635D. This is the TV that is almost exclusively used for Free Sky channels via a magic eye and a DVD via Scart.
The Sky lead and main RF go to the Sky Box in the living room. The old 32” Samsung died just before Xmas and I was thinking of replacing it with a Samsung UE32M5520. I would then buy a second-hand Sky DRX890.
It has now been suggested on another forum that I abandon Sky and move to Humax instead.
My original setup had a Thomson box which I had installed by an installer shortly after the Sky for free started. The dish was put on a garage wall away from the house. They ran 3 core cable rather than 2 core underground in case I wanted to upgrade Sky(was it to multi-room?)
I had thought the dish had to be reconfigured to move from Sky to FreeSat. Now I have been told that is not the case, so my questions are:-
Can I get a) Two Humax boxes one for each room and a new Smart TV or b)one Humax and buy a new Smart Freesat enabled TV and connect both to the same Freesat feed? Or is it c) one smart Humax box and a new Freesat TV? Due to the digging it is not practical to increase the 3 core cable to the dish.
I have read a lot of forums and they suggest d) using a Humax box, ditch the magic eye and use a Triax Tri-Link controller. I don't understand where that would go. Presumably by the new main TV and new box rather than in the loft where the amplifier has feeds to the loft aerial and sky dish plus the sky lead and RF to the Living Room and one RF to the dining room?
We are on fibre but a long distance from the green box so only get 16-18 bps. The router and modem are in the loft beside the distribution amp. So only Wi-Fi can be used.
Which of these these configurations would give independent control to both TVs (Currently Sky shows the same in both rooms? I would hope retain the Freeview aerial backup, although there are only about 38 channels (half radio) from the local relay.
I have to get the new TV soon, as the temporary replacement TV is a small Bush BTV182T with integrated video and a DVD attached. Therefore not attached to aerial or Sky. No live TV in the living room!!!
Any info missing? Any advice as to the possibilities a) b) c) or d)?
If a) or b) c) aren't possible and it is d) - How does the remote for the second TV change channels without a magic eye type device in that room?
What Humax box(es) and TV would you recommend? Thinking now of maybe the LG32LJ610V TV in the dining room and move the Toshiba Regza 37RV635D to the living room with possibly a HDR-1100S Smart 500GB? Any advice would be very welcome.
Wuzwine
