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Is there an easy way to do this? I have Sky+ downstairs and coaxial link from downstairs to the bedroom upstairs. Can I just put a splitter on the coax cable and feed it upstairs? Im not bothered about being able to switch channels from upstairs I would just like to be able to watch what on downstairs upstairs from time to time.

I don`t know about Sky + boxes but normal digiboxes have 2 rf (coaxial out) so one for downstairs & one for upstairs. Alternatively just put a splitter on the rf out & send one to TV & the other upstairs. The signal should be strong enough to split if not get a booster splitter from Argos or similar. I have my DVD, Freesat, Sky etc `daisylinked` so all of it is sent upstairs to all bedrooms.

Todays The Day. Tomorrow can wait...

They do video senders in argos, tescos and the like now.

You plug the sender into the scart socket (it goes between the box and your downstairs telly) and it beams the picture to the reciever, which we have upstairs. You can even get a spare sky remote and control it from the bedroom as it sends IR signals too.

The only problem is if someone near you has got one too. Our neighbour (by a process of elimination) has got one and we occasionally battle for control of our telly as the signal gets confused.

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Our neighbour (by a process of elimination) has got one and we occasionally battle for control of our telly as the signal gets confused.

God,you could have fun with that...
Spy people going into his house and whack it onto television X...

Yes,I did use "whack it on" and "television X" deliberately.

We tried using a splitter on the rf out, but the signal was very poor. That may have been the cheap splitter we used though. In the end just didnt bother pluggint the rf lead into the main tv, just send it straight to the second one. Means you dont get channels 1-5 just through the tv though, but you do on the second telly.

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God,you could have fun with that...
Spy people going into his house and whack it onto television X...

I used to do that all the time. I was quicker in the remote battles, but because my mrs is aiming for sainthood, she told me to back down and that it wasnt worth it, so we unplug the IR sender half the time.

All the f***ing woman ever wanted to watch was QVC, so it was constantly put on that. So in return, on went the porn channels.

I use one of these simple to set up if you already have coax running between upstairs and down.

I experimented with an AV sender once and found it to be crap......

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Companies that have p**sed me off so much that I will never use them again and I hope you dont either....
Alloy Bodies of Manchester - The Grand Daddy & Benchmark for shockingly poor customer service.
Capital Bank Leasing who are part of BOS & are f**ing useless & struggle to action the smallest request but are fantastically efficient at taking money out of my account
Abbey National Absolutely diabolical service - how hard is it to change £60 of coins into notes????
....more coming soon no doubt.....