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I’m currently renovating a flat for my in laws. They like TV, a lot. It’s essential to them that they can get full fat Sky package in both living room and bedroom. I don’t have Sky and I know very little about it.
Previous owners had Sky, there is dish outside the living room and cable coming inside. They have then bodged a spur into the bedroom by running a cable around the inside of the flat under carpets. It’s okay but not great. I’ve got a new carpet going down in a week or so and therefore need to decide quickly whether to leave it or not.
i think option 1 is to leave cable in and get it tidied up with proper junction box in living room and terminal box in bedroom. I’d probably get someone in to do this so assume £150 or so for time and materials. Option 2 is to rip the lot out and go with satellite free Sky Stream with an extra puck for the bedroom. This seems better, neater and cheaper option. Am I missing anything? Does Sky Stream work well enough, are there higher subscription costs etc. I think download speed for this area is around 30mbps.
Will they want to watch different things in different rooms simultaneously?
This might impact whether you can just bodge it with a cable or if you need to subscribe to multi room or whatever it's called now.
Firstly you need to see what lnb is on the dish Q or HD box.
Q won't do the magic eye so the cable running to bedroom is junk unless it's a dtv feed from the digital system.
Stream is plug in boxes with no dish just good Internet needed more than 50meg for a family with kids so the oldies might get away with 30/40.
Q is better tbh recording ect.
Sky engineer sitting next to me says so.
I assume different things in different rooms. The cable that comes in from outside is dual cable with two male ends.
I've recently migrated to Stream from Q because I didn't want the dish or the wiring.
It's still buggy, sometimes requiring a box reset.
The interface is quite different to Q. I used to like seeing the latest stuff I'd recorded in chronological order,byt that's not possible any more. There's personalised playlists so I don't have other people's preferences polluting my preferences.
Mine is hard wired to a 100mbps connection and I don't see any buffering. A 4k stream is 25mbps I think, so 2 people watching HD content at the same time will struggle
I'm sure they'll sort the teething problems out in time and add features to hopefully make it look a bit more like Q.
Firstly you need to see what lnb is on the dish Q or HD box.
Q won’t do the magic eye so the cable running to bedroom is junk unless it’s a dtv feed from the digital system.
i honestly have no idea what any of that means!
It looks like the bedroom feed is actually direct from the satellite. It’s a third cable
Sky Q effectively has the streaming component, plus you can get a 'mini box' which sits in another room and provides the same functionality, allows you to move from room to room to continue watching etc. If they want the Sky UI then that is what I'd go for, but wait for offers to subscribe.
Stream on its own is apparently fairly buggy, but either way they'll need a reasonable internet speed.
The two grey black feed connectors are definitely sky . So that's onto the dish. According to Mrs sky sitting next to me they are modern so should be Q ready tbh if the dish is old sky will stick a new one up as long your not on the 3rd floor or above. (Ladders are only so long after all)
Sky Q main box in the living room
Mini in the bedroom will give you separate viewing and is the best option with slowish BB.
Q is pretty much the best tv system out there tbh.
That second junction box looks like an old MDU connection for the flats is one side a plug and the other side a screw connector if so that's probably the communal feed from 1 big dish and digital Arial. It looks old and scrap
Cheers for the feedback, it’s been enough to convince me that Stream might not be the way to go with available speeds. I’ve booked my local aerial guy to come out next week for a tidy up.