Normal Sky HD box and Openbox can you watch both at the same time?

[monlkeyboy]

Hi All,

I know this is probably a very stupid question, and ill probably end up answering my own question but if you don't ask...

Set-up

Sky HD box, with the poor mans multi-room connected to upstairs tv for the wife.

Openbox connected to tv in the living room

I have two cables coming from the sky dish, one goes directly into the sky box, the other goes into a splitter, then one cable form splitter into sky box and the other into the openbox.

when the openbox is on and being watched on the living room tv my wife just has a blank screen upstairs.

is there a way for me to watch say a live sports channel on the openbox downstairs and my wife to watch a recorded programme off the sky box in the bedroom...?

cheers and sorry for being two sandwiches short of a picnic

[flash78]

You can't split the satellite cable like an aerial cable. You can only watch same channel/transponder on same feed. The best thing to do is run another cable from the sat dish, you should have 4 outlets on it for cables.

[monlkeyboy]

cheers...

im even more confused, just unplugged everything, set it all back up again, the wife was watching a recorded csi off the skybox and i had the openbox on a sports channel downstairs.

hey ho!

[flash78]

Basically you need 2 cables coming from the satellite dish to the sky box and a third cable to the open box. Your existing setup will allow her to watch recorded programs and sometimes you will be able to watch different channels on both boxes. But you won't be able to record one and watch a channel on the sky HD box and watch a channel on open box because you are trying to get 3 different inputs with only 2 cables.

[Bigstevie67]

Openbox

Basically you need 2 cables coming from the satellite dish to the sky box and a third cable to the open box. Your existing setup will allow her to watch recorded programs and sometimes you will be able to watch different channels on both boxes. But you won't be able to record one and watch a channel on the sky HD box and watch a channel on open box because you are trying to get 3 different inputs with only 2 cables.

Can i use 2 openbox units using just the one sky dish?
Do i need to use 2 routers also?

[P&D]

cheers...

im even more confused, just unplugged everything, set it all back up again, the wife was watching a recorded csi off the skybox and i had the openbox on a sports channel downstairs.

hey ho!

Just to add on to flash78 post

Yes you Mrs can watch programs of the hard drive on the S%y box while you watch the openbox.........
When the Mrs watches S%y channels upstairs from the original box......

It drags all the power from the signal thats why you lose the picture from one one of the boxes

Try both boxes on s%ly sports 3 see if you get a picture on both tv's if yes great
then try both on BT- HD sports see if you lose the picture on one of them if so see the link below

This may help you......http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/no-signal-...item25ace30d19