This is a reeaallyy long shot but ....??

[Robby]

I can access SkyDigital from downstairs into my tv that i have upstairs. I don't have one of those TVLinks just a regular aerial lead that comes out of the back of the tv downstairs into my tv upstairs.

My question is this i can receive stereo signals for the terrestrial channels ie: BBC1-CH4 but i can only get a mono signal for sky and the video channel ( i don't have a video upstairs so i have tuned a channel into my tv upstairs that let me watch video that are playing downstairs) - Y'all still with me?

Anyway it's narking me off that i can't get a stereo signal upstairs as thats where i have my Digitheatre DTS.

Do i have the wrong sort of lead connecting the two?, do i need to change any settings on SkyDigital or my video player.

I told you it was a long shot....... i've pitched my best...........anyone gonna step up to bat???

Otherwise i'm stuck with MTV in Mono:mad:

[Doc Jim]

Hmmm... okay, so you've got TV/S*Y/video downstairs and TV upstairs. With an aerial (coax) lead coming out fo the back of the TV and connecting to the upstairs telly...

Right. Aerial leads do carry stereo signals, so that should be okay. (Although I would imagine the quality upstairs isn't exactly perfect...) So that's not the problem... although, the 'loads-a-money' solution would be to run a Scart lead over the same length as the aerial lead.

Have you tried outputting the aerial from the back of the video or D*gibox? Perhaps the telly doesn't like outputting a stereo signal from those sources - and you would receive terrestrial telly anyway.

[Robby]

Thanks , I'm glad you understood what i wrote. I had my doubts myself:D .Yes i do have a pretty lousy signal upstairs as a result of using a coax lead. I will try outputting from SKY or video again (i remember doing this before to no avail but i'll try again)

What i don't understand is the tv downstairs outputs a stereo signal for all channels so if i'm taking a signal from the back of the tv i should receive all channels in stereo upstairs right?

cheers
Robz

[Kryten]

Sky DigiBox's only output a Mono signal through their arial outup :( (Atleast the Grungig and Pace one do anyway) I asked Sky about that and they said that this was how all the boxes did it!

[Robby]

AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggghhhh NUTS!!

I guess that answers my question, thanks anyway guys.

I guess i should try for an extra long scart lead then:(

[Doc Jim]

Just thought I'd add a postscript to this thread..

I came across the following 'letter' on the troubleshooter pages of this months' What Satellite TV:

I have a Panasonic Sky Digital set-top box. From this I have a TV-link which goes about 10m into another room, where it goes into the back of a .. video recorder, then through another co-axial cable into a .. television. The TV-link works fine, but I have a problem with sound. I get NICAM on .. only channels 1,2,3 and 4 but I can't get NICAM with Sky.. ...

The TV-link has no effect on Nicam operation. However, Nicam signals come only from your terrestrial aerial, which is why your TV detects it only on terrestrial programmes. Satellite transmissions don't use Nicam. They translate the digital signal directly into stereo audio, which is available from the Scart socket and from left/right phono sockets, on the rear of the Digibox. This includes Pro-Logic sound, when available...

[Greenstead]

Thats interesting to learn.

What if a video sender is used? I think you put stereo L&R into them? (But I ain't got one). So would that give stereo SKY on the remote TV ?
:confused:

[DunkWho]

Yup it would. The thing thats getting in your way at the moment is the use of nicam. Terrestial broadcasts use nicam to encode the stereo into the broadcast signal, thats carried through the whole aerial loop (coax cables and all) into your nicam telly (or vid) where it decodes the nicam and gives you stereo. Digital transmissions dont use nicam, the transmission is so fundanmentally different that its not 1 and the same at all ... a digital transmission has an mpeg movie and a sound track in the same signal, but not combined into an RF broadcast like a telly. The digibox is able to take both the stereo and mono soundtracks transmitted with the channel - it puts the mono track onto the coax output and the stereo onto the stereo phono and scart outputs only. So ... coax to your bedroom from your digibox has no stereo - you'll need to link the stereo outputs directly to the stereo inputs on your telly (or straight into your digitheater).

hope that helps ... theres more to think about if you want stereo straight out of your telly because that would need an aux input on the telly, which would then require composite video inputs instead of coax ... and on and on and on and on :)

Dunkwho