OHled
Novice Member
Hello all,
I need some help as really new to all this. I live in a flat with a communal dish (mainly used for SKY) and an antenna.
In my lounge I have a quad TV/FM/SATx2/LAN/RETURN wall plate from Schneider. In the bedroom there is a single one with a female coaxial entry.
Just purchased a used LG tv for the bedroom. In the lounge I use the B8. I have found out that I need to connect a feed to the return coax male socket on the wall plate in the lounge in order to make the bedroom tv work.
What I need to achieve: I want Freesat and Freeview on the lounge TV and only Freeview in the bedroom (TV has only got Sat tunner not freesat)
I tested the following:
- Connected the FM radio port to return in living room - Bedroom tv picked up just a few freeview channels
- Connected the Sat1 socket to the return - Bedroom picked up all freeview channels
- Connected the Sat2 socket to return - Only got most of the channels on freeview but without the HD channels
- Connected the TV socket to return - All freeview channels were available on the bedroom TV.
If I connect a cable to the TV socket and then come into the SAT entry on the back of the TV - there is no signal so looks like TV is exclusive for TV signal.
Now that I know that I have to feed the Return socket I am not sure exactly how to do it:
Should I
- Buy a compact TV splitter that plugs straight into the TV socket (or are the screw F-type better) = then connect 2 coaxial cables - one to the LG B8 and one in the Return socket . For SAT in lounge use a direct cable from SAT1 to TV
or
- Buy a compact / regular F-type splitter - connect it to the SAT1 female socket = then connect 2 coaxial cables - one to the LG and one to the return socket. For Freeview a coax cable direct from wall plate to TV
Also, since I have to do this shopping, should I buy new better cables like WF100 Webro? I have 2 cheap cables of the like of Poundshop but signal strength and quality is most of the time 100/100 and being a communal service I can't tell what quality cables have been used anyway.
Sory for the verbose post. Hope that I can learn a bit to shop properly.
I need some help as really new to all this. I live in a flat with a communal dish (mainly used for SKY) and an antenna.
In my lounge I have a quad TV/FM/SATx2/LAN/RETURN wall plate from Schneider. In the bedroom there is a single one with a female coaxial entry.
Just purchased a used LG tv for the bedroom. In the lounge I use the B8. I have found out that I need to connect a feed to the return coax male socket on the wall plate in the lounge in order to make the bedroom tv work.
What I need to achieve: I want Freesat and Freeview on the lounge TV and only Freeview in the bedroom (TV has only got Sat tunner not freesat)
I tested the following:
- Connected the FM radio port to return in living room - Bedroom tv picked up just a few freeview channels
- Connected the Sat1 socket to the return - Bedroom picked up all freeview channels
- Connected the Sat2 socket to return - Only got most of the channels on freeview but without the HD channels
- Connected the TV socket to return - All freeview channels were available on the bedroom TV.
If I connect a cable to the TV socket and then come into the SAT entry on the back of the TV - there is no signal so looks like TV is exclusive for TV signal.
Now that I know that I have to feed the Return socket I am not sure exactly how to do it:
Should I
- Buy a compact TV splitter that plugs straight into the TV socket (or are the screw F-type better) = then connect 2 coaxial cables - one to the LG B8 and one in the Return socket . For SAT in lounge use a direct cable from SAT1 to TV
or
- Buy a compact / regular F-type splitter - connect it to the SAT1 female socket = then connect 2 coaxial cables - one to the LG and one to the return socket. For Freeview a coax cable direct from wall plate to TV
Also, since I have to do this shopping, should I buy new better cables like WF100 Webro? I have 2 cheap cables of the like of Poundshop but signal strength and quality is most of the time 100/100 and being a communal service I can't tell what quality cables have been used anyway.
Sory for the verbose post. Hope that I can learn a bit to shop properly.