Sky q and composite cabelling

[maniac2002]

Hi,

Being forced into an upgrade to sky q. The problem I have is that my current aky box feeds to the house through a russound cav 6 system with the sound and picture from the sky box is sent to the system by an rca cable. I keep getting told that the sky q box is not compatible with this system. Has anyone any experience of this or know if yhis has a work around to make it work please. Thanks in advance.

[PandJ2020]

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@maniac2002 wrote:

Being forced into an upgrade to sky q.

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Why forced?

The main Q box has HDMI output with HDCP - no analogue output.  It may be possible to get a converter.

[nigea99]

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@PandJ2020 wrote:

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@maniac2002 wrote:

Being forced into an upgrade to sky q.

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Why forced?

The main Q box has HDMI output with HDCP - no analogue output.  It may be possible to get a converter.

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As @PandJ2020 says it might be possible but certainly not straight forward

You may, also, wish to read some notes I have made for people considering switching from SKY +/HD to SKY Q

SKY +/HD to SKY Q 

Note ; THe lack of Software updates on SKY HD does not mean they will stop working  - although SKY have tightened  rules meaning only SKY Cards paired with the boxes last October can be re-paired with the same boxes (i.e. no swapping of boxes)

[Chodley]

You can feed composite from a mini with the right cable. Maybe you can make that work.

also - no one is being forced but the comms do make it sound like that.

[PandJ2020]

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@Chodley wrote:

You can feed composite from a mini with the right cable. Maybe you can make that work.

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With the Nokia phone cable thingy - but I suspect the OP is trying to avoid paying for a multiscreen sub.

[Chodley]

At the cost of having to use SD? Too much to bear 😁

[maniac2002]

Dish got blown off and will not be repaired unless the sky q system gets installed as part of the repair. 

[nigea99]

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@maniac2002 wrote:

Dish got blown off and will not be repaired unless the sky q system gets installed as part of the repair. 

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You could get a local independent Satellite Installer to do this

[PandJ2020]

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@nigea99 wrote:

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@maniac2002 wrote:

Dish got blown off and will not be repaired unless the sky q system gets installed as part of the repair. 

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You could get a local independent Satellite Installer to do this

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Indeed - may be a better option given your setup...

Sky, quite rightly, no longer provide any support for Sky HD/Sky+

[maniac2002]

Yes but the box is fine its purely the dish is the issue no sky repair without a box change. Repair due tomorrow so hopefully there will be some workaround with it. 

[oj01]

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@maniac2002 wrote:

Yes but the box is fine its purely the dish is the issue no sky repair without a box change. Repair due tomorrow so hopefully there will be some workaround with it. 

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The workaround is to get someone other than Sky to fix the dish.

[nigea99]

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@maniac2002 wrote:

Yes but the box is fine its purely the dish is the issue no sky repair without a box change. Repair due tomorrow so hopefully there will be some workaround with it. 

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If that is SKY then this will be with SKY Q, unfortunately which will not be ideal for your set up

I suspect it is too late to pause the switch

[Laing1]

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@maniac2002 wrote:

Yes but the box is fine its purely the dish is the issue no sky repair without a box change. Repair due tomorrow so hopefully there will be some workaround with it. 

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@maniac2002 as you have found Sky won't send an engineer out for any problems with a Sky + HD problem whether it be box or dish. 

If you wish to keep your Sky + HD system you would be best to call Sky now(although you might be too late ) to cancel the change to Sky

Q then get an independant out to sort your dish.

Once you have changed to Sky Q you cannot go back to Sky+HD

[Chodley]

Maybe this could help

https://www.lindy.co.uk/audio-video-c2/converters-scalers-c105/hdmi-to-composite-stereo-audio-conver...

might need a way to get the remote signal back to the Sky box though.