We live in an area of Chch that does not get a good TV signal, and we have sky digital. In the living room we have a sky socket in the wall and an aerial in & aerial out socket / plug. (although we don't have an aerial on the roof - just the sky dish)

Currently we have the sky decoder in the living room and the sky man ran a cable from the back of the decoder to the 'aerial out' socket and we have a TV in the bedroom that we plug into the TV aerial socket in the wall and we can get all the same Sky Chanels that we get in the living room. but we can only watch the same chanels as in the living room.

We are thinking of getting the 'free to air' digital set box for the bedroom, so that we can watch different programs, but also still be able to watch all the sky programs in the bedroom.
We can buy a 'splitter' plug with 2 plugs on it from somewhere like Dick Smiths and we can plug that into the sky aerial plug in the living room then from one side run the main sky lead to the decoder and on the other run a small cable to the 'aerial out' plug and that will take the signal to the bedroom. Then I believe we can plug in the digital set box in the bedroom to get the free to air TV, but this will diminish the quality of the signal - is this correct?

We would probably also need another splitter for the aerial out socket in the living room? - so we can connect the cable from the decoder to the aerial out plug - enabling us to also get the Sky chanels in the bedroom as we currently do? but we are only able to have 1 cable coming out of the socket on the bedroom and we would need it to plug into the free to air digital box, but also get the sky chanels from the living room decoder - confused? I am!

The more I think about it, the more I think it probably can't be done...... but I am not a quitter!
so if anyone has any suggestions as to how it might be able to work I'd be much appreciated.

cheers

Nick a.k.a Once Bitten