trickydicky Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 we have an autotrail cheyenne with freeview and a pull down tv monitor.is there anyone who knows whether it is possible to connect a sky+ box to the viewing monitor to watch pre recorded programmes.as there is no slack on the scart lead coming from the monitor,is it possible to join scart lead to scart lead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donna miller Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 If you can hang on 'till next week, I can send you a scart coupler. I bought 6 earlier in the year for the cameras at work. I am just off to Prague and wont be back until Sunday, but if you pm me your address, I'll post one to you when I get back. They were a couple of pound each, so put a donation in a collecting box somewhere. If you can't wait, go to Maplins website and put in scart coupler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njw Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 hi ,will be interesting to hear any replys on this as i thought you would need a twin LNB on a satelite dish to run sky + Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek500 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 To fully use a Sky+ box you do need two lnb feeds. However, you can still record, live pause, view recorded programmes and download Anytime with one feed. You can't however, watch one programme and record another or record two at once.. There is a work-around to allow the box to record different programmes on different channels and be able to leave on standby. Firstly, make sure the feed is connected to input 1. Then set a programme that's currently on to record. Go to services, manual record and set another channel to record like this. If the time is now 10.55pm, choose any channel and do 'start time' as 10.57pm and end time as 10.56pm and then once. When the time is 10.57pm go into planner and cancel the first programme that you set to record. By doing the above it 'fools' the box into thinking it has two feeds!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickydicky Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 thanks for your info and kind offer donna,i will send the other half to maplins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wee_squaw Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 We use our Sky+ box in our van and you defo need a satellite dish. Without a sat signal you can't view anything - whether it's pre-recorded or not. The twin LNB issue is only a requirement where you want to watch one Sky channel whilst recording another!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickydicky Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 i'm surprised you need a sat dish just to watch pre recorded programmes.we have tried it indoors and it works perfectly well without a sat dish. it's really just like using a video player surely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek500 Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 trickydicky - 2008-12-05 12:16 PM i'm surprised you need a sat dish just to watch pre recorded programmes.we have tried it indoors and it works perfectly well without a sat dish. it's really just like using a video player surely. You need to have a 'signal' when the box is booted to watch pre-recorded programmes, access planner, Anytime etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Tricky, may I suggest you leave sky+ disconected for several days then try watching pre recorded, I think it may be ok for a day or so but then lock out, at least I seem to recall someone else saying this happened. A similier thing happens to sky boxes if left without power when trying to watch say c4, but now the subcription has changed on sky+ maybe not so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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