Things to consider:
- it's a bog standard Sky box, no + or HD, not connected to a phone line
- I'm not coughing up for multiroom (there's no requirement to watch two different channels at once)
- the workshop is in the house, not far very from the living room where the HB lives
- the workshop telly is currently an analogue (plus handy built in VCR & DVD) but could be upgraded to digital if that's needed.
- I've heard that the remotes from some extenders don't change the Sky channels in the second room, but that's not a showstopper

Any advice? There are some really cheap Philips ones in a local PC World clearance outlet.

But your 'Hitler Box' title intrigued and amused me...

Is this a reference to the plethora (glut) of 1933 to 1945 related docs on said device? I mean Rupert Murdoch ain't that bad, is he?

As a stand-up on Mock The Week once said, "Dear History Channel, OK, the Nazis were bad. We get it."

has to be the great lost Fall track doesn't it?

Ms Molly - not an expert but I think it's pretty straightforward. All you need is a Sender. Don't even think you need to upgrade telly to digital - although now is probably a good time as lots of bargains around

Selection of Senders below at Amazon

http://tiny.cc/cjg6f

Hope this helps

Oz

upstairs. It allows them to change channels from upstairs but both sets have to watch the same channels. The key thing is that it ISN'T an analogue sender but a proper digital gadget. The picture on the second TV is as good as the main TV.

My local Sky installer did it for me - cost about £30 all in. It's this sort of thing: http://www.sky-remotes.com/sky-magic-eye.shtml

EDIT: Both TVs are analogue.

I've used an AV sender to good effect but I'd cough up a bit extra for a 5.8Ghz model. The bog standard 2.4Ghz versions can cause havoc with other devices operating on that frequency like wireless routers & phones. Picture quality will be a shade blurry too, but standard definition Sky isn't pin-sharp anyway.

If you're of a DIY bent at all then I would use cables. The wireless spectrum can be very noisy and if any neighbours are also using similar items (phones, bluetooth and microwaves use the same frequency) you may have problems. You only need a bit of coax with a connector on each end (no soldering necessary of you get the right ones. Then, as Stimpy says, get a magic eye (about a fiver or about 15 with a remote http://cpc.farnell.com/1/1/48091-remote-elec-eye-silver-psg02629-pro-sig...). You need to connect to the second output of the sky box and enable it via the setup menu. What the magic eye will do, that a sender won't, is to adjust the aspect ratio of the picture out of the sky box automatically which is very handy if the second set is an old 4:3 set.

I reckon tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestions.

The Magic Eye solution would be good (and cheap), Stimpy, but I think the two TVs need to be connected through an aerial / coax connection, and the workshop telly only has a mini plug-in aerial at the moment.

I'll go with the 5.8Ghz AV sender suggestions. Don't think there will be any concerns about blurry pics though, Graham, as the workshop TV screen always has a veneer of oil & swarf anyway!

but does anyone here use a Slingbox ? Curious about well they work for such purposes

Thanks to all for your advice. We went for this - http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=264419 - currently on offer for £50.

Left Mr Mandy to set it up but heard plaintive cries of "these instructions are rubbish" as he was about to abandon it as a bad job. On inspection, we found he'd forgotten to turn the transmitter & receiver on...

Still not got the ideal set up - need to work on aligning the transmitter & receiver to try to avoid large intervening objects (walls, lathes, central heating boiler etc) to get better reception, but definitely worth persevering.

Been a techie afternoon - also set up remote assistance for my Mum's PC (no more excrutiating phone discussions about which button to press) and a wireless printer, located next to my PC upstairs. Mr Mandy's just proven the printer's worth by sending a document to it, from his laptop downstairs - it says "Dinner will be ready for 1930hrs!!!"