Sky Magic Eye

[N10k]

The sky Magic Eye.

With the Magic Eye, instead of increasing the length with Coaxial cable, can i split the thiner cable and add to that?

[thinfourth2]

You can but your will get a crap picture as your central cable will be unshielded the braided bit does have a purpose beyond falling off when you try to strip the cable with a sharp knife

[Steve996]

N10k said:

The sky Magic Eye.

With the Magic Eye, instead of increasing the length with Coaxial cable, can i split the thiner cable and add to that?

Not sure exactly what the OP means here....

Is he talking about only extending the central core of the co-ax without braiding in which case the last poster is spot-on, you may get some form of signal but only just! OR is he talking about extending the wire to the IR receiver "eye" from the inline-coax box? If it is the latter, I've never tried but it should be possible with a decent connection and similar cable, still can't for the life of me work out why you'd want to do either though?

[N10k]

Ok, i didnt make my self very clear

The magic eyes i have seen have about 50cm of cable from the IR receiver to the small box which goes to the small Coaxial box which then goes to a coaxial cable then to the sky box. Is that right?

Well the sky box is in the loft about 2 meeters away from the TV. i dont want to take up space in the tube i have filed in the wall to include coaxial cable with the HDMI cable, i would rather just have a smaller cable, extending the the cable between the Coaxial box the the receiver

does that make sense?

[Turbo5]

N10k said:

Ok, i didnt make my self very clear

The magic eyes i have seen have about 50cm of cable from the IR receiver to the small box which goes to the small Coaxial box which then goes to a coaxial cable then to the sky box. Is that right?

Well the sky box is in the loft about 2 meeters away from the TV. i dont want to take up space in the tube i have filed in the wall to include coaxial cable with the HDMI cable, i would rather just have a smaller cable, extending the the cable between the Coaxial box the the receiver

does that make sense?

I had a similar problem, we have an extra sky box in the loft so that in the bedroom we only have the TV, the mains and the cables are through the wall in the cavity which feed up into the loft. I was struggling with the length of the wire on the magic eye. Then I realised the little box on the end of the magic eye actually fits at the back of the TV not at the point of exit on the sky box, so problem sorted.

[olimeads]

Just had our 8 year old eye changed along with hd upgrade. The bloke was amazed on how bad the picture quality was, as the system was running through the aerial sockets. He replaced it with a wire from the main box outside and into the bedroom. clear as day. So much better quality.