a_j_mair
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was supposed to be getting multiroom yesterday but due to being in a big house aparently i need a signal booster in the ariel and sky wont supply them.
So it is rescheduled for wed now 
got all cable runs doen the back of cavity done for them so they just have to connect the cables
The real question i am interested in is how far away can i have my sky reciever from my tv as i am flush fittin my tv in my wall and not wanting a messy shelf
cheers for any help 
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John
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From my dealings with sky they won't use your cables for the sky boxes, you also shouldn't need a booster from the sky dish to the box.
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Nismo
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Will you be using HDMI or Scart from the box? If its scart then the you dont really want to be any further that 5m, normal length Scarts are 3m, if its any further then you will need a 3m extension and then connect another 3m to it, but this is likely to cause the picture to downgrade a bit.
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Cavey
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You can easily get 5m scart cables from maplin anyway.
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Nismo
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i didnt think you could, if you can then i need to get my ass on over to maplins then!
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a_j_mair
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from the dish to the bedroom is approximately 35-40m so said i would need a booster
If the dont want to use the existing cable i can pull theres down the cavity so shouldnt be a problem
was just going to use scart cable, im sure my tv can use HDMI though is that not hi def or is it completely different?
ideally sky dish is going to be 8-9m or so from tv
could HDMI do it?
cheers for the help
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Nismo
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you can only use HDMI if you have the SKY HD box and HD TV?
otherwise you will need to move the box closer!
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a_j_mair
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tv is HD ready, has alsorts of connections PC etc, will find out.
What kind of connections other than scarty are possibile for sky if it isnt HD
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Nismo
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you could allways use Coax.
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a_j_mair
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is that just the red yellow and white?
how long can you get them without loosing to much quality?
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by a_j_mair
is that just the red yellow and white?
how long can you get them without loosing to much quality?
Yellow is composite (red/white being R/L audio). Really wouldn't bother as picture quality is terrible. S-video is better and RGB Component being the best out of the analog connections. Most non-HD sky boxes will only have RF and scart connections though, so i would just place the sky box on a shelf below or an AV rack and use scart.
As for the booster, you don't really want an RF booster, get an inline amplifier with propper F connections (like > HERE <) and you'll be alright (40m connection on decent 75ohm coax, would be approx -60db at 100Mhz, so a +20db gain should put you in the threshold - but don't count on that, my maths is rusty as hell lol).
Though i've never heard of using a booster on the sky dish side of things, unless it's over 100m, but it's worth getting one and testing it with and without i suppose. I wouldn't have thought they'd supplied it though, i know NTL/VirginMedia supply amplifiers/attenuators when installing equipment.
Just make sure you've used decent 75ohm coax and you should be fine to use it, but it's up to the engineer though.
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