How can I watch Sky TV on more than one TV?

[wheresmypaddle]

I have Sky TV and sky plus on the 'main' TV in my sitting room.

I would love to be able to watch it in my bedroom (directly above the sitting room). I have recently become a lone parent , so watching my choice of TV in bed is one of the few advantages I have noticed so far!!

Can anyone suggest the most cost effective way of doing this? Can I get a little magic beamer thing?

The most cost effective way is probably to run an aerial cable up the wall and through the ceiling/floorboards, or through the wall and up the outside of the house. Should cost less than a tenner.

Alternatively the 'little magic beamer thing' is called an 'AV sender' and costs upwards of £25 (for a sender/receiver pair) - google for lots of choice, available from Tesco, Argos, Amazon etc. Some send remote control signals back down as well.

I thought with Sky the only way you could do it was by buying their Multiroom option. If you want to be able to watch a different channel in your bedroom to that which is on the main TV then you need another Sky box in your room.

My mum recently got Sky HD and had the current box moved to her bedroom. The man had to do lots of drilling to run the cable to the box from the dish. Also costs a tenner a month more iirc.

Those gadgets allow you to watch the channel that the Sky Box "downstairs" is outputting. So you don't have to pay the tenner a month or buy another box, but I don't believe that the picture is as good especially if all you do is run an aerial cable upstairs.

However maybe they've improved since I last used them...