Originally Posted by nessyfencer:
“OK, I am referring to the things that you plug one into the TV with the sky box, and the other into another TV in the house to receive sky in the second room. Have I called them the right thing?
A bit confused, have seen a few in Argos. Now, there is 2 reasonably priced ones, but they look a bit rubbish. It then jumps up to £80+. Why would anyone pay this? Surely it would be preferable to just pay the extra £40 for a year worth of multi-room?? Also, the £80 is the only one that specifies that it "Transmits through walls, doors and ceilings." Erm... surely it would be pointless if it didn't!!!
One last question, we have sky+ downstairs and sky multi-room with the old box in the room next to mine. Which box would I be better off setting it up in, the multi-room or the Sky+?
Thanks”
Sky multi-room costs £120 per year, not £40 (£10 per month). Not everybody who buys an AV sender wants to use it for Sky - it can be also used for transmitting Freeview, DVD, VCR etc etc etc. Also remember, an AV sender and a multiroom subscription are totally different things. An AV sender connected to a Sky box will only allow you to watch in another room what is currently being watched on Sky in the room where the AV sender source lives. A multiroom subscription allows you to watch any Sky channel that your subscription includes - not necessarily the same thing that is being watched on the main Sky box. But, multiroom requires an extra Sky box, all Sky boxes to be connected to the phone line, and at least one extra cable between Sky box and sat dish. An AV sender doesn't require any of these.
An AV sender will transmit anything that can be transmitted via a scart cable (allegedly). The more expensive ones are better than the cheap ones in terms of suffering from less interference, not being disturbed by wireless routers, wireless and mobile phones, and microwave ovens, and are better at sending a signal through wall and floor materials.
You would normally set up an AV sender using the Sky box which gets least usage - remember, whoever is watching the Sky box via an AV sender is watching whatever the Sky box that the AV sender is attached to is playing. Now, if the room that you are putting the AV sender in is normally used by somebody who doesn't want to watch what is on the main Sky box, then connect the AV sender to your secondary box. Alternatively, if the room is normally used by somebody who doesn't want to watch what is playing on the Sky box in the room next to yours, connect it to your main box. Another advantage of connecting it to the Sky+ box is that you can then view things from the Sky planner via the AV sender. But the reverse is also true - if somebody is watching something from the Sky+ planner, the AV sender is not going to allow you to watch live Sky.
Either way, it can only be showing what is showing on one of your two Sky boxes. The distance and materials that make up walls and floors between the two AV senders may also have some impact on which Sky box you connect it to.