I was suggesting to my uncle that he got rid of Sky+ and moved to Freesat+.

He's got two rooms with HD TVs, so I was wondering what would be his best configuration. What does anyone think?

* If he got a Foxsat-HDR in one room and some sort of signal sender, the picture on the "secondary" TV wouldn't be HD.

* If he got a Foxsat-HDR in both rooms, he'd have to remember to record things in both rooms (or transfer files between the two); rather fiddly.

Are there any other ways that anyone can think of? Please bear in mind that he's not too technical!

Cheers

You could fix him up with a hdmi splitter and feed both sets from the same hdr. If the length of the run is long to the 2nd TV a pair of Cat5 cables and HD baluns will do the job.. You would need some sort of remote control extender. This would be simple and assuming he does not want to watch both TV's at once probably the cheapest solution.

Technically the best (but by far the most complex) is to connect the hdr and the remote TV by a media server to a home network. This would mean that the remote TV could watch recorded content independently of what the hdr was doing. Probably massive overkill for this situation.

Transferring HD files from one to the other won't work as Freesat recorded HD is encrypted with a key unique to each box so at least for HD that's not going to work.

You can do it over coax cable, quality not up to HD standards.

Search ebay for "freesat remote extender".

Network streaming would be in the middle between HDMI and the coax approach, in terms of quality that is. I use the streaming approach, covers our PCs as well.

I just connected the LNB out to the pre-existing coax cable (changed the connectors of course) running from Freesat HDR up to bedroom and installed an old HD Goodmans FreeSat box. From advice gained from this forum just be aware that if Freesat master box is switched on it will affect the viewing options on the slave unit. If master unit is off then no problem. Proper cabling is best way forward I think.